Text Prediction on GNOME
I was disappointed with the text completion provided by the N900 ( eZiText ) that, on top of that, is closed and I wondered if it was possible to have an Open Source solution to provide text prediction and completion. I searched a bit and besides my original intentions of developing a library to search Free and Open Source dictionaries’ words from a prefix, I found Presage
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
BootScreen Lets You Change The N900 Boot Video With One Click
N900 users have been able to change their boot screens for a while, but earlier it involved tinkering with code and that meant you needed to know how to use the terminal to get this to work, not anymore. Valério Valério has published an application called BootScreen that lets you change your N900 boot video with a single click and requires no hacking skills. All you need to do is install BootScreen from the extras-devel repository in the N900 Application Manager ( here is how to enable it with one click ), transfer the boot video you want to set to the N900 and select it from within the application.
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
Maemo 6 UI Framework Open Sourcing Announcement Video
I’m happy to share with you the video which we shot last week to promote Maemo 6 UI Framework. Don’t forget to choose 1080p or 720p. Enjoy! 2010-02-16 15:04 UTC with score 2
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
MDBus2 for Maemo5
During FOSDEM I attended few talks in Openmoko devroom. During one of them Mickey ‘mickeyl’ Lauer was using his ‘mdbus’ tool to inspect and play with DBus services and methods.
Testdriving the UI Extensions for Mobile on Maemo 5
Reading about Nokia’s UI Extensions for Mobile ( sources available ) I wanted to quickly try it myself. So I looked at the provided examples, and this video is the result of what I came up with (well, of course it is FOSDEM -induced).