ARM/N900/Ideas

Revision as of 19:00, 18 March 2011

Ideas, feedback

• Feel free to write here. Also put your name and details here, if already want to help on something.
• First idea: want to help to make this wiki more beautiful? (from Jukka)
  • I'll take that. Suggestions welcome Amigadave 10:54, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
• How about having "reply to sender" in SMS sending functionality, seems a bit vital to me :) (from Tom Swindell AKA. alterego)
  • Jukka: edited that in, thanks.
• Low hanging fruit: TV-out functionality in UI. Backend works (kernel), trivial change needed for fbdev-sgx (from Carsten Munk)
  • Jukka: Yes, definitely let's try. (try: 'xrandr --output TV --auto' and 'echo pal > /sys/devices/platform/omapdss/display1/timings')
• How to easily install apps/packages, any UI to ease this? (idea from qgil)
  • PackageKit UI (timoph and timakima committed to implementing it)
• VSync drivers in the kernel + SGX driver + X server?
  • Comment from Carsten: Already there :)
• Up to date MeeGo Qt Components for creating native-looking UIs
  • Jukka: Yes, being worked on, let's see.
• Kernel and userspace support for the N900's IR port
• Camera support (taking photos + videos with the back camera, reacting correctly to the camera shutter button + camera cover)
  • Jukka: Work happening also here, see CoolStuff page (meegocamera).
• Up to date Qt Mobility 1.1/1.2 packages + latest Qt 4.7.2 packaged for development of apps
  • Jukka: Qt 4.7.2 and Qt Mobility 1.2 are already in trunk.
• SSH server + MAD Developer application easily installable (for deploying using Qt Creator)
  • Jukka: SSH runs always, MADDE let's investigate.
  • Fathi Boudra: mad-developer is available (it's part of MeeGo SDK packages). It should be part of MeeGo images by default (accepted) but has a blocker issue preventing its inclusion in package groups (bug 13007).
• Easy way to enable/select USB mass storage mode. Control panel applet with switch between usb networking and mass storage would be fine.
• New theme. Cool new theme (or several) that is special to this DevEdition, and sets the look and feel apart from the stock MeeGo.
• Find a solution to encourage & guide developers in open to utilize traditionally "grey" areas like DSP and ISP. Afaik both have enough openness to split up oss/non-oss work and have them running side by side. See felipec's comments irc:meego-arm/log.09-17-2010/15:11.
• NEON & Floating Point Optimizations for ARM (vkvraju)
  • hard-fp work active and images will be coming soon to trunk, NEON optimizations also (Jukka)
• Latest PySide (Python for Qt) 1.0 or PyQt installed by default as most/majority of the applications use python (vkvraju)
• Add/Merge to contacts an unknown number from the call history (vkvraju)
• Block a number (from calling/SMS) from the call history or contacts (vkvraju)
• Speaker/hands-free support for calling and listening to music (vkvraju)
  • Jukka: Hands-free should be working already, and speaker might be workable.
• Kernel & userspace support for FM Radio & Transmitter (vkvraju)
• Creating groups in contacts. Support for groups in contacts (QtContacts?) (vkvraju)
  • We are using meego-handset People application by default, which doesn't have this feature in MeeGo 1.2. Not for DevEdition at this point. (Jukka)
• Sending SMS to groups (created in contacts) and sending to random but multiple contacts at once (vkvraju)
  • See previous comment (Jukka)
• Fully functional and working LED. Useful to notify when a call comes. Notify while charging (USB/Wall) and many more such uses (vkvraju)
  • This would be nice to have, maybe something for the community to work on. Let's make sure the enablers are there in DevEdition (Jukka).
• Ability to switch off one or more radios/chips (FM Receiver, Transmitter, Bluetooth, WLAN, 2G/3G, GPS/A-GPS) and also the ability to change their modes via settings (vkvraju)
• Device screen calibration support (vkvraju)
  • Please describe why this would be needed? (Jukka)
  • I thought calibration is a must for all touch-based (especially resistive screens) devices, no? N800 and N900 are the only touch-devices I have and both have screen calibration (vkvraju)
• Device screen brightness control. Preferably in the control panel (vkvraju)
  • First of all, let's get backlight control working to save battery. Fine-tuning of brightness could be part of that work. (Jukka)
• If any of the above feedbacks/ideas are already being worked on as part of the immediate next release, then please update the "Use cases" section in the main page accordingly. Thanks (vkvraju)
  • Well, no. The main use cases are something DevEdition team has committed to, anything else is extra. We will make the call in the DevEdition team whether to add something to the guaranteed use cases. (Jukka)
• Have own sample-media, including some test data for Calendar, People etc. (Jukka)