D-Bus traffic pattern with Telepathy

Telepathy is a big user of D-Bus , both on the GNOME desktop with Empathy and on the N900 . When I have a lot of Telepathy accounts and contacts, the start-up time could be about 10 seconds. How much is the D-Bus communication responsible for the start-up time

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Where do we go from here?

The post- Elopocalypse angst has been getting me down over the past few days. It’s against my nature to spend a lot of time worrying about things that are decided, done, dusted. It was Democritus, I think, who said that only a fool worries about things over which he has no control, and I definitely identify with that.

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Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 14 Feb 2011

Front Page Nokia make Windows Phone their strategic smartphone OS The news has been everywhere, including the BBC television bulletins: Nokia are abadonning hopes of owning the entirety of their stack and the board – led by CEO Stephen Elop – has decided to partner with Microsoft. The main reasons cited are Nokia's lack of ability to deliver a next generation mobile OS, and an ecosystem to go with it

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Confusions of a Maemo Enthusiast (Post 2/11)

I have been with Maemo since 2007, when I purchased the fabulous N800 Internet Tablet. It stayed with me through Chinook, Diablo and even through the ‘Elephanta year’.

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Babyphone – a wonderful baby-monitoring app

Since my new son had started sleeping in a different room in his crib a few weeks ago, Babyphone has been an indispensible tool to keep an ear on the baby during the night when he wakes up. After tweaking the Babyphone settings to the desired sensitivity the first time, putting the N900 next to 2011-02-10 03:34 UTC with score -1

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Drawing up a roadmap

One of the most important documents a project can have is some kind of elaboration of what the maintainers want to see happen in the future. This is the concrete expression of the project vision – it allows people to adhere to the vision, and gives them the opportunity to contribute to its realisation. This is the document I’ll be calling a roadmap.

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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.06

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-01-31 through 2011-02-06 As of 2011-02-07 Extras contains: total items 2309 ( 40) total open items 861 ( 18) open bugs 504 ( 7) critical/blocker 29 ( 1) “easyfix” 4 “moreinfo” 3 “crash” 0 “patch” 4 reopened 7 unconfirmed 304 ( 6) open enhancements 357 ( 11) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 4 reopened 1 unconfirmed 147 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (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 (4%) 5181 [gPodder] Automatically download new episodes when on ‘home’ connection (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (4%) 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 (4%) 11844 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Email problem if attachment or picture included (new this week) (3%) 5504 [ogg-support] No seeking for Flac (1.0.5) (-1 this week) (3%) 6456 [ogg-support] Register audio/ogg mimetype to support *.oga Vorbis audio files (-1 this week) (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (-1 this week) Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free.

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Seeding MeeGo

Propagating a novel  operating system (OS) can often be a frustrating chicken-vs-egg scenario, as many abandoned platforms and even current ones like Linux can demonstrate.  An OS won’t gain many converts without a reasonable stream of ready-made applications as well as the necessary ecosystem support ( especially device drivers ).  In open source contexts, this is compounded by Digital Rights Management (DRM) and similar sticky, usually legal, bogeys

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Wallpaeper

/ 0 votes – 9 downloads Updated 2011-02-06 18:15 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Easily create, install, preview, edit and delete image sets. Typing .desktop files for image sets / wallpapers is not needed anymore! Author S Dijkstra Links Homepage

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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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