Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 31 Jan 2011

Front Page Maemo 5 & N900 get community OS updates One of your editors, Andrew Flegg , posted – on behalf of the Maemo Community Council and Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh – the announcement of the Fremantle Community SSU project. “Seamless Software Update (SSU), is the term Nokia used to brand the over-the-air updates of Maemo.

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Synchronizing your application’s data with Tracker’s RDF store

A few months ago we added the implicit tracker:modified property to all resources.

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N800 External Battery

The internal N800 battery is pretty studly, but there are contexts in which I don’t want to have to swap out the battery for a spare. Have to reboot the machine to do that and if you’re trying to run a program for a long time or continuously, that’s not acceptable

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Technical Product Owner for Desktop, MeeGo (SYS000000CR)

  MeeGo Computers is where Nokia builds mobile computers on Linux.

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MeeGo Community Development: Apps, Surrounds and the Community OBS

So… lets say we have some device that run MeeGo; what else canit do? Where are the apps?

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Maemo rfk still going

This morning I finally got around to testing the rewritten MeeGo version of robotfindskitten on the N900. It works passably well: You see that the text is missing. There are a few other things wrong (we need to use Maemo banners, not dialogue boxes ; the vibration at the end needs reimplementing) but I think it will be good to go in a week or so of snatched moments here and there.

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Senior Engineer, Multimedia GStreamer (EMB0000002H)

MeeGo Computers is where Nokia builds mobile computers on Linux.

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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.04

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-01-17 through 2011-01-23 As of 2011-01-24 Extras contains: total items 2244 ( 5) total open items 826 open bugs 490 ( 1) critical/blocker 27 ( 1) “easyfix” 4 “moreinfo” 3 “crash” 0 “patch” 4 reopened 7 unconfirmed 294 ( 2) open enhancements 336 ( 1) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 3 reopened 1 unconfirmed 138 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 12 weeks): (7%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (5%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (5%) 5181 [gPodder] Automatically download new episodes when on ‘home’ connection (5%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (5%) 7413 [ogg-support] Cover art not shown for Ogg Vorbis files (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 5504 [ogg-support] No seeking for Flac (1.0.5) (3%) 6456 [ogg-support] Register audio/ogg mimetype to support *.oga Vorbis audio files (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 5673 [eCoach] Implement translation infrastructure Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes (unchanged for 11 weeks): (7%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (6%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (6%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature (6%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (4%) 5452 [Hermes] Don’t overwrite pre-existing contact info (3%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (2%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio (2%) 7374 [FM Radio] Record FM radio to file (2%) 5564 [Dialcentral] Include links to the voice mail recordings in DC Please visit Bugzilla to vote.

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Concepting a new IPC system

This is going to be a long post, and probably obscure for anyone not familiar with D-Bus . When I started thinking about this idea, I decided that I wouldn’t write about it until I had some code ready; but a recent thread in the D-Bus mailing list urged me to publish my ideas, in the hope that some people might be able to see through all this vapourware and possibly (but here maybe I’m hoping too much) encourage my employer to let me work on this as a R&D project. It’s about an IPC system with somehow similar functionality as D-Bus, but whose main describing features would be: low latency local only message data passing happens via shared memory simple lock-free match rules are tags lists peer-to-peer, with central server acting as a baby sitter :-) client API as compatible with libdbus as possible Well, if any of the point above captured your curiosity, read on! I hope it won’t be too disappointing at the end

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Marketing MeeGo: Introduction

One of the biggest challenges facing the MeeGo venture will be creating tangible interest around its (eventual) offerings.

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