MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 19 Mar 2012

Front Page Time for the election of the next Maemo Community Council RM Bauer has announced the start of the spring 2012 election for the Maemo Community Council. Six months ago, only three candidates stood and so were selected without a vote. RM Bauer has been the most visible member, with Momcilo Majic and Jeremiah Foster being mostly quiet.

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MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 20 Feb 2012

Front Page A Technical Steering Group for Maemo 5 CSSU? RM Bauer , one of your Maemo Community Council repressentatives, is pitching a proposal to form a Technical Steering Group for the Freemantle Community SSU: “I propose a TSG (Technical Steering Group) for CSSU – 3 community members meritocratically selected from within the project who will oversee initial decision making over such things as project management, release dates, features, architecture and roadmap. To the extent it means anything, Council can delegate some of its authority so that the TSG can hopefully address related administrative tasks directly and more quickly without Council intervening on its behalf.” Discussion seems to have gone quiet, which is disappointing for something so important

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Maemo, MeeGo, Mer, Tizen: Short statūs

While the official Maemo platform (led by Nokia) is not actively developed anymore, some 3rd party Extras and the Maemo Community Updates project (which welcomes helping hands) are quite alive. MeeGo never managed to fulfil its own expectations with regard to openness and transparency and is also more or less dead

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MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 28 Nov 2011

Front Page Stable release of Community SSU OS updates for Maemo 5 and N900 Christian Ratzenhofer has announced that the stable branch of the Community SSU for Maemo 5 has been created. He says the stable CSSU had been “mentioned on the forums about 3 weeks ago, and I'm happy to announce that it's finally here! We're trying to achieve an as close to stock Maemo experience as possible in terms of stability. The stable CSSU contains those packages from testing version 16.8 which were deemed stable.

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A Subtilty in Overlaying Notification Windows on Maemo

I was recently hunting down a slightly annoying usability bug in Khweeteur, a Twitter / identi.ca client: Khweeteur can notify the user when there are new status updates, however, it wasn’t overlaying the notification window on the application window, like the email client does. I spent some time investigating the problem: the fix is easy, but non-obvious, so I’m recording it here. A notification window overlays the window whose WM_CLASS property matches the specified desktop entry (and is correctly configured in /etc/hildon-desktop/notification-groups.conf ).

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howto

The following text is from the introduction of the HOWTO I’ve written explaining how to modify a program to use Woodchuck. The focus is on the Python interface, but it should be helpful to anyone who wants to modify an application to use Woodchuck. This document, unlike the detailed documentation , should be a bit easier to digest if you are just getting started with Woodchuck.

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APT Woodchuck

A couple of weeks ago, I was chatting with Michael Banck about DebConf. He told me that one of the sponsors provided everyone a SIM card with 5 units of credit, and that the first time he established a data connection was also his last: he got bit by Maemo’s automatic repository update misfeature ; because, he had gone more than 24 hours without checking for software updates, Maemo checked even though he was using a cellular data connection and only had a few megabytes worth of data transfer credit. A simple workaround for this bug is to disable updates .

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MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 12 Sep 2011

Front Page Measuring MeeGo activity?

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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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