As those of you who read maemo-community might know, I've decided not to run for the council this time. I'm really proud of being a part of the first two councils, and the level of trust Nokia placed in us with the recruitment of the debmaster; chairing the sprint meetings for the gang-of-four; the decisions over the summit and inviting us to the launch of the N900 at Nokia World. My enthusiasm for Maemo is not diminished; indeed, with the launch of the N900, I'm as excited now as I was waiting for the launch of the 770 back in November 2005. However, after a year on the council, I'm now looking forward to six months as "just" a normal community member. I've not come to this decision easily, and I'm very happy to have had such warm words of encouragement. My reasons are two-fold: There are many other members of the community who should have a chance to represent us. In particular, I'm very happy that Stephen (sjgadsby), Valério (VDVsx) and Graham (gcobb) have chosen to accept my nomination of them. The fact they're joined by the likes of Alan Bruce (qole), Gary Birkett (lcuk) and Jay Carter (zerojay) - and others - is even better. The vitriol and nastiness spewed by a very vocal, but tiny, minority of people on talk.maemo.org - especially regarding the transition of internettablettalk.com to talk.maemo.org - took a lot of the fun away. Given the massive investment of time my role as chair required, taking the fun away removed one of the main motivations for me. I still plan on being an active (and vocal) community member both as a developer, a community evangelist and as a user. I hope that if you would have voted for me, you consider voting for one of the excellent candidates we have standing (and we have many). In particular, Stephen, Valério and Graham have all been long term contributors in many different ways and are tolerant, helpful people. I will struggle to cast my single transferable vote for them, Gary, Alan and Jay. However whomever you vote for, please do vote (once you receive your voting tokens)! I think that the Community Council has been far more effective than I ever imagined it could be when I suggested it back in 2008 and I look forward to seeing where this community will go in the next six months 2009-09-21 09:43 UTC with score 0

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2009-09-14 through 2009-09-20 As of 2009-09-21 Extras contains 398 items (+11 this week), including 207 open issues (-6 this week): 147 open bugs (-4 this week) 8 critical/blocker (-2 this week) 1 "easyfix" (no change this week) 1 "moreinfo" (no change this week) 0 "crash" (no change this week) 3 "patch" (no change this week) 0 reopened (no change this week) 66 unconfirmed (-2 this week) 60 open enhancements (-2 this week) 0 "easyfix" (no change this week) 0 "moreinfo" (no change this week) 0 "patch" (no change this week) 0 reopened (no change this week) 11 unconfirmed (-2 this week) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes: (36%) 4452 [Maemo Mapper] Default SQLite databases format is very slow, especially during maps pre-caching. (27%) 4243 [Mer] Organize of Applications Panel not responsive (9%) 4307 [Mer] Marquee-panel doesn't scale when rotating the screen. (9%) 4311 [Canola] Unable to play mp3 files with special characters in id3 tags (9%) 4878 [Canola] Support new last.fm api (9%) 5091 [PyMaemo] hildon.hildon_program_get_instance() not available (new this week) (no entry) (no entry) (no entry) (no entry) Please visit bugs.maemo.org to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes: (50%) 4058 [Canola] Vertical lists are not scrolled properly (50%) 4665 [BlueMaemo] drag&drop and digitizer mode (no entry) (no entry) (no entry) (no entry) (no entry) (no entry) (no entry) (no entry) Please visit bugs.maemo.org to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten hottest open bugs: 4726 [Mer] Mer Flash Installer, incompatible boot error 4089 [Canola] SystemProperties plugin error crash after upgrade to beta11 4257 [Canola] Playlists get added to themselves, recursively 4083 [Canola] cannot access to video and internet files after upgrade to 2.0.b11 4906 [gPodder] getpass error with password protected podcast 3886 [Canola] Interface buttons disappeared: video, podcasts, internet media 4977 [PyMaemo] python-osso and python-gst0.10 missing Provides: on python2.5-xxx packages 4919 [PyMaemo] python-mafw: list of missing types to complete methods bindings 4452 [Maemo Mapper] Default SQLite databases format is very slow, especially during maps pre-caching. (+1 this week) 4931 [Qt] Opengl ES2 paint problems in device (new this week) Ten hottest open enhancements: 5040 [Conboy] Add synchronization with Tomboy 5052 [Conboy] Add support for storage backend plug-ins 4058 [Canola] Vertical lists are not scrolled properly 5004 [Attitude] Support theming to give spirit-level view 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo 5111 [Mad Bomber] start screen should indicate to users that they need to tilt the device to play 4037 [Canola] Ability to switch between "Play Random Track" and "Album" mode 4090 [Canola] Own radio stations and playlists are not supportet by canola last.fm plugin 4101 [Mer] zenity list should allow clicking in any column for radio and check lists 4103 [Mer] dpkg message for missing scripts is confusing Ten oldest open bugs: 3472 [Advanced Backlight] LCARS and Hildon iconsets aren't complete 3886 [Canola] Interface buttons disappeared: video, podcasts, internet media 3974 [Browser Extras] webaddons category applications have inconsistent name convention 4005 [Canola] AudioBroadcast UPnP items not showing when browsing 4036 [Canola] Canola cannot properly merge multiple tracks into one album 4050 [mNotes] random comments about make/mnotes_framework 4063 [Load Applet] Load applet's icon needs to be more opaque and less white 4064 [Maemo Mapper] "the the" is a typo in the first run page 4068 [Maemo Mapper] OK/Cancel references to another localization package break w/ fremantle - hildon_note_new_confirmation changed 4083 [Canola] cannot access to video and internet files after upgrade to 2.0.b11 Ten oldest open enhancements: 4037 [Canola] Ability to switch between "Play Random Track" and "Album" mode 4058 [Canola] Vertical lists are not scrolled properly 4090 [Canola] Own radio stations and playlists are not supportet by canola last.fm plugin 4101 [Mer] zenity list should allow clicking in any column for radio and check lists 4103 [Mer] dpkg message for missing scripts is confusing 4117 [Canola] Tracks in playlists should be sortable by album and track 4255 [Canola] libre.fm support (instead of last.fm/audioscrobbler) 4335 [Mer] Armel slowness 4551 [Mer] Powerlaunch is unable to handle keyboard backlight. 4650 [Mer] Request for nbd kernel module New Items 9 bugs were opened: 5141 [PyMaemo] Documentation code examples in wrong order - "Writing Desktop Widgets Tutorial" 5143 [PyMaemo] Unable to use hildon.Button in desktop widget -- "cannot register existing type HildonButtonArrangement" 5149 [Qt] QDialog can't be executed twice 5154 [PyMaemo] Update gtk.Dialog for maemo changes 5157 [PyMaemo] Please provide Python bindings for libhildonmime 5158 [Mauku] Pressing "Contacs" shows the timeline for the first contact 5162 [gPodder] Use escape consistently for pop-up windows 5164 [PyMaemo] Website SDK Installation doc error: it should be "apt-cache", not "apt-get cache" 5165 [PasswordSafe] file found, password requested, then file not found 0 bugs were critical/blocker. 2 enhancements were opened: 5146 [Mauku] Make the options selectable by clicking in the element instead of using the edit button 5160 [PasswordSafe] Edit/View Entry dialog should be more finger-friendly Resolved Bugs 6 bugs were resolved "fixed": 4245 [PyGTKEditor] hardcoded /home/user directory 4759 [Qt] Toolbar icons are too small 4925 [Qt] Effects labels are shrinked and partially visible in QFontDialogs 4985 [Qt] Special characters view not opened with Qt apps 4990 [Xournal] Crash when choosing "Color" from the toolbar 5064 [Maemo Periodic] Two-line entries in "Properties": Second line starts one letter too early 2 bugs were resolved "invalid": 4972 [PyGTKEditor] Unable to install pygtkeditor: python2.5-osso missing 5165 [PasswordSafe] file found, password requested, then file not found 2 bugs were resolved "wontfix": 4937 [Qt] Addressbook example application freezes 4991 [Xournal] "Help..." entry in menubar does nothing 1 bug was resolved "duplicate": 5096 [PyMaemo] Missing function hildon_gtk_window_set_portrait_flags 2 bugs were resolved "worksforme": 4899 [Qt] ARMEL dependency errors 5027 [PyMaemo] hildon.Touchselector() Doesn't Scroll When Added to A Regular gtk.Diallog() 0 bugs were resolved "moved". Resolved Enhancements 4 enhancements were resolved "fixed": 4988 [Xournal] Installing: "Xournal release notes" screen suboptimal 4989 [Xournal] Very crowded toolbar 5121 [Maemo Periodic] XB-Maemo-Display-Name not used in debian/control 5160 [PasswordSafe] Edit/View Entry dialog should be more finger-friendly 0 enhancements were resolved "invalid". 0 enhancements were resolved "wontfix". 0 enhancements were resolved "duplicate". 0 enhancements were resolved "worksforme". 0 enhancements were resolved "moved". Confirmed Items 1 bug was confirmed: 5165 [PasswordSafe] file found, password requested, then file not found 2 enhancements were confirmed: 5085 [OmWeather] Option to enter Station country name instead of scrolling only 5087 [OmWeather] "Not available for this country" instead of empty "Selecting station" list Reopened Items 0 bugs were reopened. 1 enhancement was reopened: 5160 [PasswordSafe] Edit/View Entry dialog should be more finger-friendly Unloved Items 43 bugs were needing love: 4906 [gPodder] getpass error with password protected podcast 5015 [PyMaemo] get_items function not present in hildon.AppMenu 5102 [PyMaemo] python2.5 is not compiled with ssl support: ssl module missing 5141 [PyMaemo] Documentation code examples in wrong order - "Writing Desktop Widgets Tutorial" 5143 [PyMaemo] Unable to use hildon.Button in desktop widget -- "cannot register existing type HildonButtonArrangement" 4805 [Qt] Qt auto unit tests: Some QWidget parent geometry tests fail 4895 [Qt] Qt lib auto unit tests: focus problems 4251 [Mer] Gtk Theme Icon Errors - when launching Midori web browser 4307 [Mer] Marquee-panel doesn't scale when rotating the screen. 4390 [Mer] webbrowser does not prompt for web site auth 4416 [Mer] Tab-order and focus glitches occur with multiple textboxes 4516 [Mer] Main menu not resizing when running low res screens. 4532 [Mer] automounting and user mount support missing 5036 [EasyChem] About text not fully displayed 5038 [EasyChem] Application name too long for "Applications" menu 5069 [Lybniz] "Help" from main menu does nothing 5071 [Lybniz] Buttons in "About" have mnemonics 5072 [Lybniz] Icons in bottom toolbar look blurry 4005 [Canola] AudioBroadcast UPnP items not showing when browsing 4094 [Canola] playing music does stop if editing 'internet media' in menu 'settings' 4381 [Canola] Canola ignores some mp3 tags 4550 [Canola] Volume bar not updated when changed from other application 4610 [Canola] Video playback controls unstable 4611 [Canola] Canola takes too long to start up 4612 [Canola] Video playback much slower than MPlayer 4681 [Canola] podcast episodes in "New episodes" will be played in the wrong order 4878 [Canola] Support new last.fm api 4756 [Maemo Mapper] Documentation that comes with maemo mapper is outdated somewhat 4761 [Mer] "Nokia" and "Maemo" should be replaced with "Mer" in translations 4762 [Mer] python-osso problem - ImportError: No module named osso 4890 [Mer] More missing strings 5090 [Mad Bomber] Enter/Return key not working, Spacebar does 3974 [Browser Extras] webaddons category applications have inconsistent name convention 4494 [mCalendar] mcalendar sync causes tablet cpu spike and reboot 4521 [mNotes] word-wrap splits words in half, rather than breaking lines after the end of a word 4844 [Load Applet] shows swap icon (floppy) even after swap is no longer in use 5162 [gPodder] Use escape consistently for pop-up windows 4932 [PyMaemo] python-mafw: mafw.Source.browse() method is missing 5091 [PyMaemo] hildon.hildon_program_get_instance() not available 4377 [Mer] Deselecting dropdown menu plugin crashes desktop 4155 [Canola] Canola videocast not finding items within some feeds 5164 [PyMaemo] Website SDK Installation doc error: it should be "apt-cache", not "apt-get cache" 4838 [Mer] Mer 0.15 starting problem. Not starting every time 6 enhancements were needing love: 5037 [EasyChem] Invisible icon in "Applications" when having a black background 5070 [Lybniz] Disable automatic uppercase for entering functions 4037 [Canola] Ability to switch between "Play Random Track" and "Album" mode 4117 [Canola] Tracks in playlists should be sortable by album and track 4255 [Canola] libre.fm support (instead of last.fm/audioscrobbler) 4551 [Mer] Powerlaunch is unable to handle keyboard backlight. Keyworded Items (glossary) 0 bugs were tagged "crash". 0 bugs were tagged "easyfix". 0 bugs were tagged "moreinfo". 0 bugs were tagged "patch". 0 bugs were tagged "performance". 0 bugs were tagged "security". 0 enhancements were tagged "easyfix". 0 enhancements were tagged "moreinfo". 0 enhancements were tagged "patch". 0 enhancements were tagged "performance". This summary is also posted to the Maemo developers' list and Internet Tablet Talk. 2009-09-20 23:00 UTC with score -3

I have released ReSiStance 0.3 (in case if you wonder what about v0.2, it is just that I didn’t blog about it, but it was released on Monday). I don’t know how it could happen, but I totally overlooked the presence of WebKitGtk python bindings in the Maemo repos by the time I started to code ReSiStance. I decided to move to WebKit as soon as I noticed my mistake, specially knowing all the cool features of WebKit Gtk port from the Igalia mates hacking on it. These are the more remarkable changes since v0.2.1: HTML rendering is now WebKitGtk’s business. It performs blazingly fast, much more than GTKHtml, you’ll easily notice that. Feeds list can be sorted Added application settings Auto load images Default font size Portrait/Landscape modes You can see all of them in action in this screecast: ReSiStance 0.3 from Igalia on Vimeo. UPDATE: I had to push v0.3.1 to the repositories because v0.3 had missing package dependencies 2010-04-02 10:49 UTC with score -1

If you follow software updates frequently you may have noticed some new updates in extras-devel and extras-testing catalogues which cannot be installed because of unresolved dependencies. I’m fully aware of the date today, but I cannot take everything as a joke and this time I think it’s not a joke. If you follow Maemo 5 development and this blog, you should already know that new system update is almost ready to be released, application developers already have SDK PR1.2 to adapt their applications to this new firmware. Let’s have a look ... 2010-04-01 17:40 UTC with score -4

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Before I get into the details surrounding my participation in Maemo Summit 2009 and its aftermath, I wanted to make something clear... 2009-10-22 21:31 UTC with score 4

Congratulations to rootsh and qwerty12! And a big thanks for a great little application! It is quite fitting that rootsh is the first app to get through. Hope to see more apps soon in Extras! 2009-09-18 07:41 UTC with score 2

Thinking of creating an app or widget for the Nokia N900? The official Maemo 5 User Interface docs are now at maemo.org detailing usability principles, device orientation, controls, icons, dialogs, etc. There is also a GUI design interface template in PDF format, so User Interface / Experience designers out there can start mocking up apps. Check out the full documentation. Discuss this at talk.maemo.org. 2009-09-18 12:46 UTC with score 2

A new version of gPodder (2.0; "Day of the Tentacle") was released a few days ago, and it has already landed in Extras for both Chinook and Diablo. I wrote about the Maemo 4 UI changes some weeks ago, and you can enjoy them all on your tablets right now.Tuomas Kuosmanen (tigert) has suggested some UI improvements for the Fremantle version of gPodder, and I'm currently working on implementing those ideas. First of all, there's an all-new front page:The podcast directory (which allows you to discover new podcasts) which looked ugly previously has also been "Fremantleized", and is very usable now:I'm still thinking about the best way to implement indicators for new, downloaded and listened episodes, but at least the GtkPaned-based split view is gone now:The episode list is also quite unspectacular, but you can use the AppMenu to unsubscribe from the podcast (splitting up the UI in so many views automatically makes the AppMenus not so filled - good move!).You can find some more screenshots depicting the current status of the UI in this Flickr photoset, and expect a new release next week or so. 2009-09-18 00:35 UTC with score 1

In the early days there was prelink as part of maemo. It disappeared in the n810 distribution ranges. I noticed that there is no armel deb in debian for prelink, but there were murmurs of folks hacking it to work. Push finally came to shove, and as I like C++ many of my apps on maemo have quite a few symbols that need to be resolved before the app can run.The long story short, prelink_0.0.20090311 is up at my repo. Use at your own risk, if your device breaks you get to keep both pieces etc etc.Initial benchmarking: for an app that uses a few libraries, is C++, and has quite a few symbols that the dynamic linker has to attend to. For a complete run before it was 5.2 seconds on a warm start, with prelink of the binary it is 2.5 seconds. Considering that in that 2.5 the app itself has to completely run, there was a huge amount of time spent, err wasted, in the dynamic linker.Of course, if I can get hidden symbols to work too then that 2.5 might drop back to 1.5-2 seconds. But for hidden symbols you have to either wrap things in pragmas or declare each function and class as exposed or not, so for a large library its quite intrusive. But the prelink is a huge gain for no code changes, so far at least. YMMV.It's a touch ironic that Nokia recommends using prelink for embedded devices. But that is for qtopia... maybe for the next distro prelink will reappear in the default installation. 2009-09-17 04:54 UTC with score 0