MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 26 Nov 2012
Front Page Jolla reveal strategy, UI and Qt Creator-based SDK at Slush 2012 Jolla is once again foremost in the minds of many mobile OS enthusiasts and open-source aficionados with more information being revealed regarding their strategy and future. The launch of their official website and a slick video partway between a teaser and a product video give a definite sense of progress and should inspire confidence in everyone holding their breath for a product launch.
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 8 Oct 2012
Front Page Jolla to unveil Mer-based Sailfish OS and developer story next month Last week Jolla announced it will be unveiling its new Sailfish OS, Jolla UI, and SDK at the Slush startup conceference in Helsinki November 21st and 22nd: “The startup, which is comprised of many former Nokia employees, said it will also discuss the Jolla SDK and app ecosystem with developers. 'Device information, ID and expected availability' will be announced before Christmas, it added.
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 8 Oct 2012
Front Page Jolla to unveil Mer-based Sailfish OS and developer story next month Last week Jolla announced it will be unveiling its new Sailfish OS, Jolla UI, and SDK at the Slush startup conceference in Helsinki November 21st and 22nd: “The startup, which is comprised of many former Nokia employees, said it will also discuss the Jolla SDK and app ecosystem with developers. 'Device information, ID and expected availability' will be announced before Christmas, it added.
Off the Record Messaging: A Tutorial
OK, a rather long post about effective digital communication. Hopefully an interesting read to folks who would like to add some code to protect communications but haven’t gotten around to that TODO item just yet. A commonly used method for sending messages to others when you need authentication and privacy is to use an OpenPGP tool such as GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)
Off the Record Messaging: A Tutorial
OK, a rather long post about effective digital communication. Hopefully an interesting read to folks who would like to add some code to protect communications but haven’t gotten around to that TODO item just yet. A commonly used method for sending messages to others when you need authentication and privacy is to use an OpenPGP tool such as GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)
[LUCID/iron] Unified graphics on the way …
here are two versions of the GUI for LUCID: desktop and mobile. Apart from the obvious interface differences (desktop looks like a conventional pogram; mobile has buttons for touhscreen use) the underlying 3D graphics used different approaches in OpenGL
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.48
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-11-21 through 2011-11-27 As of 2011-11-28 Extras contains: total items 2779 ( 7) total open items 1013 ( 4) open bugs 581 ( 3) critical/blocker 44 ( 1) “easyfix” 5 “moreinfo” 5 “crash” 2 “patch” 4 reopened 6 unconfirmed 359 ( 3) open enhancements 432 ( 1) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 187 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 4 weeks): (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (3%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (1%) 7500 [BlueMaemo] Hardware keyboard doesn’t work in Maemo5 Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes : (6%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (5%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (5%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (5%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature (4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (4%) 11976 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] viewing sms conversations in portrait mode without horizontal scrolling (patch) (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 Please visit Bugzilla to vote.
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.48
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-11-21 through 2011-11-27 As of 2011-11-28 Extras contains: total items 2779 ( 7) total open items 1013 ( 4) open bugs 581 ( 3) critical/blocker 44 ( 1) “easyfix” 5 “moreinfo” 5 “crash” 2 “patch” 4 reopened 6 unconfirmed 359 ( 3) open enhancements 432 ( 1) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 187 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 4 weeks): (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (3%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (1%) 7500 [BlueMaemo] Hardware keyboard doesn’t work in Maemo5 Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free.
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 ).
What community?
With the announcement of Tizen (pronounced, I learned, tie-zen, not tea-zen or tizz-en) recently, I headed over to the website to find out who the project was aimed at. I read this on the “Community” page: The Tizen community is made up of all of the people who collectively work on or with Tizen: Product contributors: kernel/distribution developers, release managers, quality assurance, localization, etc.