BUG 2.0 arrived
Some time ago there was decision that BUG 1.x will not be supported with next version of BUG Linux. As a result I ended in situation when I worked on handling device which I never saw
Nokia kinetics
Nokia wants patent on self-regenerating phone batteries, piezoelectrics and much magic involved — Engadget ., quoting Symbian-Freak It seems Nokia has figured out to port the watches’ kinetic technology into its phones.
Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 8 Mar 2010
Front Page Maemo Community election: nominations open The next Maemo Community Council will have their work cut out for them with the large shifts in Maemo caused by the MeeGo announcement.
Optical character recognition on the N900
This week I decided to spend some time playing with something a little different on my n900. Namely optical character recognition. This was inspired by a demo by Cybercomchannel called phototranslator
Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2010.09
A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla 2010-02-22 through 2010-02-28 As of 2010-03-01 Maemo Official Applications contains 3064 items (+52 this week), including 865 open issues (+5 this week): 500 open bugs (-2 this week) 11 critical/blocker (+1 this week) 0 “easyfix” (no change this week) 125 “moreinfo” (+1 this week) 8 “crash” (no change this week) 8 “patch” (-1 this week) 23 reopened (no change this week) 201 unconfirmed (+2 this week) 365 open enhancements (+7 this week) 2 “easyfix” (no change this week) 7 “moreinfo” (no change this week) 15 “patch” (no change this week) 13 reopened (+1 this week) 83 unconfirmed (+3 this week) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (13%) 3888 IMAP-IDLE not working (+1 this week) (5%) 5033 Select/Copy text within email is nonintuitive/broken (+1 this week) (4%) 5480 undo/un-merge merged contacts (+1 this week) (3%) 3700 Put signatures not on top in replies (thereby not forcing top-post) (+1 this week) (3%) 8126 OVI Maps spins when not Moving (+2 this week) (2%) 3557 Browser tops its windows by itself (N8×0) (2%) 6009 “Enter” key sends wrong keycode to console applications (+2 this week) (2%) 3762 Performance is unusable on IMAP accounts with a large number of messages in one or more folders (e.g. INBOX) (2%) 7062 Video camera does not record smoothly (new this week) (2%) 7190 music stutters while multi-tasking, especially browsing web Please visit bugs.maemo.org to vote
A long overdue refactor
For the last couple of weeks, my time on Witter has been spent refactoring the code to be more managable.
N900, MeeGo, and Barcelona
In-flight entertainment with N900 Flying to Barcelona over the Alps.
Harmattan UI Framework open sourcing announcement video
Tomas and his colleagues announcing the open sourcing of Harmattan UI Framework: Harmattan UI Framework video (Sorry video is unavailable temporarily) Tomas already posted a blog entry for the open sourcing announcement so I am not talking about that in detail, you can see more in the video. You can read the blog post by Tomas Junnonen from here
Its Official: Nokia Is Dropping The Maemo 6 Brand
At the MeeGo announcement there wasn’t much clarity on whether Nokia was going to keep the ‘Maemo 6′ brand for now and then transition into MeeGo, but a simple post from Quim Gil , of Nokia’s Maemo Division requesting the renaming of the Maemo 6 / Harmattan sub forum at Maemo.org to MeeGo / Harmattan has brought much needed clarity to the picture. In addition to the request he has taken the time to clarify a few aspects which I am sure all of you are very interested in. Below are a few extracts from his post, nothing surprising but still worth a read
Maemo’s community involvement infrastructure is what MeeGo needs
Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin are merging to form MeeGo , a development environment for a new class of internet-connected devices ranging from smartphones through netbooks to TV sets. This may be finally what provides the free software world with a consistent and modern alternative to the iPhones and iPads that the proprietary world has come up with, the “magical user experiences” Linux Foundation’s Jim Zemlin was asking for .