Prague, Telepathy and HTML5 IM Client

Hey guys! Last week I’ve attended to GStreamerConf and LinuxConf conferences in Prague, and Siraj and I had the honor of having our current project for Collabora exposed on Collabora’s both.

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PHP and GObject Introspection

GObject Introspection is one of the hidden jewels of the GNOME stack : you write a library in C or Vala , and it becomes automatically available to a wide variety of languages and runtimes, including Python , JavaScript , Java and Qt . Now I would like to bring GObject Introspection to PHP. Why?

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Broken GTalk calls

Recently Google updated their XMPP servers to use standard Jingle for audio and video calls; see the “Google: The Future is Jingle” post on xmpp.org for some more details. This would be good news for us, except that, by doing so, they broke calls in telepathy-gabble (so in Empathy, the N900 and MeeGo) in multiple ways

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Broken GTalk calls

Recently Google updated their XMPP servers to use standard Jingle for audio and video calls; see the “Google: The Future is Jingle” post on xmpp.org for some more details. This would be good news for us, except that, by doing so, they broke calls in telepathy-gabble (so in Empathy, the N900 and MeeGo) in multiple ways. Luckily GTalk developers were really cooperative and they agreed on fixing their servers and Will and Olivier already fixed Gabble too

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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.16

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-04-11 through 2011-04-17 As of 2011-04-18 Extras contains: total items 2528 ( 33) total open items 923 ( 15) open bugs 536 ( 10) critical/blocker 32 ( 1) “easyfix” 4 “moreinfo” 6 “crash” 1 “patch” 4 reopened 7 ( 1) unconfirmed 320 ( 7) open enhancements 387 ( 5) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 0 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 156 Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (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 (3%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (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%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (new this week) Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free.

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On cross-project collaboration

There is currently quite stern discussion going on between GNOME , Canonical and KDE about collaboration on the free desktop. Angry words have been written, and I believe much of the tension arises from the situation with MeeGo

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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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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.08

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-02-14 through 2011-02-20 As of 2011-02-21 Extras contains: total items 2361 ( 23) total open items 847 ( 21) open bugs 489 ( 11) critical/blocker 29 “easyfix” 4 “moreinfo” 4 ( 1) “crash” 1 ( 1) “patch” 4 reopened 7 ( 1) unconfirmed 292 ( 10) open enhancements 358 ( 10) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 3 reopened 1 unconfirmed 138 ( 11) 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%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (+1 this week) (4%) 7413 [ogg-support] Cover art not shown for Ogg Vorbis files (+1 this week) (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (+1 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) (2%) 5673 [eCoach] Implement translation infrastructure (+1 this week) (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (new this week) Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes (unchanged for 15 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 (5%) 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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Senior Software Engineer, Middleware

MeeGo Computers is where Nokia builds mobile computers on Linux. We build leading-edge devices by combining the most powerful hardware and the best open source software technologies. Our ambition is to deliver a superior user experience dedicated for mobile computers with large touch-screens that fit into your pocket

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Senior SW Engineer, MeeGo (SYS000000CI)

MeeGo Computers is where Nokia builds mobile computers on Linux. We build leading-edge devices by combining the most powerful hardware and the best open source software technologies. Our ambition is to deliver a superior user experience dedicated for mobile computers with large touch-screens that fit into your pocket.

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