QEMU and open hardware: SPEC and FMC TDC
Working with open hardware Some weeks ago at LinuxCon EU in Barcelona I talked about how to use QEMU to improve the reliability of device drivers. At Igalia we have been using this for some projects.
Performance and Memory Usage of Evolution Data Server
Openismus asked me to perform some benchmarks on Evolution Data Server . We wanted to track the progress of recent performance improvements and identify possible improvements.
Initial success in porting Harmattan/Symbian QML app to BlackBerry (Jaffa@maemopeople)
This is the first post in a new BlackBerry category in my blog. Having attended the ” BlackBerry 10 Dev Jam ” in London last week, BB10 looks very interesting – and a spiritual successor to MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan, i.e.
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.
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.
Why I love the N9 and things I didn’t know about WP7
With last week’s Nokia World and today’s hands-on event in Vienna, I got a chance to try out the WP7 devices and ask questions about them. Here’s some insights that I want to share with you, because they might not be obvious if you haven’t tried WP7 before (I haven’t until last week, and these things were not obvious to me). I’m comparing the Lumia 800 with the N9 here, because they look very similar from the outside
Painting Strategy in MeeGo’s Virtual Keyboard
I’ve never been happy with the conclusion in the influential blog post “Qt Graphics and Performance — The Cost of Convenience” by Gunnar Sletta: If you want performance, downgrade QGraphicsView to a mere canvas with a single QGraphicsItem.
Is MeeGo Keyboard conquering GNOME3?
You’d probably like me more if I had spend my time testing the upcoming release of MeeGo Tablet UX on this shiny new WeTab ( I ♥ Openismus ), but Jon couldn’t resist to test-drive GNOME3 first. Well, and since we like our virtual keyboard so much, we just had to make it work of course . Jon also wrote about the features shown in the video .