MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 19 Sep 2011

Front Page Long time community member Gary Birkett (lcuk) dies, aged 36 The MWKN Staff is saddened to report on the passing of Gary Birkett (known to many as lcuk) earlier this week. Gary was a great friend to us and – as the outpouring of feelings and memories from the community attests – well known and well regarded within the community in general. Gary was an enthusiastic developer who burst onto the Maemo scene around the time of the Amsterdam Summit; he made it his mission to create the fastest drawing on the N810 possible.

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MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 5 Sep 2011

Front Page Rumours of Intel “pausing” MeeGo work – not true they say A number of sites have picked up a news story quoting unnamed “industry sources” saying that Intel will temporarily halt work on MeeGo, to focus on OEMs requiring Android and Windows.

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MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 29 Aug 2011

Front Page Future of Nokia's PySide project for Python & Qt PySide was a Nokia-led project to produce a more liberally licenced set of Python Qt bindings (compared with PyQt).

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How quick I got started with Qt Quick

A month ago I downloaded the last Qt SDK , plugged my Nokia N9 to it and started writing from scratch a chess game UI.

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MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 22 Aug 2011

Front Page Upcoming vote for Maemo Community Council and referendum on the future of maemo.org One of the bigger long-term issues resulting from the Elopocalypse in February is the status of maemo.org and its funding through next year. RM Bauer is looking to have a conclusion to these issues with a referendum as part of the election of the next Community Council: “Community members should be considering whether they want to stand for Council.

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Qt5 + Distance Field Effects

Yoann Lopes blogged recently about Text Rendering in the QML Scene Graph using distance field alpha testing. This technique brings smoothly scalable fonts with fast OpenGL rendering to Qt5. Distance field is of course not limited for just fonts (although they are the most usual use-case), same technique can be used also with suitable images

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N9 Swipe undocumented feature; activate sane behavior

Ed Page recently blogged about his idea to improve the Swipe UI.

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A Swipe UX Idea

Over my desk at work I have a sign that says “On my deathbed I would design a better deathbed”. I’ve been using the N950 now for several weeks and I can’t help thinking about how I would do things differently.

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Ovi Store Beta Debuts On The MeeGo Harmattan Powered Nokia N950

Nokia has rolled out a beta of the Ovi Store for the developer only Nokia N950. While the release is still beta, it does give us an idea of what the Ovi Store will look like on the not so widely available Nokia N9. The design of the store is based on the MeeGo Harmattan UI that can be seen on the rest of the device with certain similarities with the Ovi Store on Symbian

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