Revision as of 11:55, 31 March 2011

Tablet UX evaluation on N900

Let's document the progress and conclusions on this page.

Required Features Currently Missing

• Dialer
• SMS

Features Currently not Working

• Lock screen

Handset Bugs Fixed by Tablet UX Integration

• https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14755 - Wallpaper modification.
• https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8108 - Sound settings.
• https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14873 - Unwanted screen unlock during landscape to portrait rotation
• https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14739 - Notification area looks unfinished
• Cellular data has working UI in Tablet UX.

Other Bugs Affected by Tablet UX Integration

Rotation off by 90 degrees

The initial problem here was that the QML components in MeeGo made bad assumptions about the directions provided by Qt Mobility.

This is fixed in git (not yet in the repos), however, there is an additional problem in that it 'fixed' itself before being integrated in new images.. so something may have changed in the n900 sensorfw stuff or something. Needs investigation.

Runs out of memory quickly

This is significantly eased by Robin's patch to drop GL contexts when switching applications (saves ~10mb per application), however, this causes a visual glitch at present (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy10RPxLEn4) so this won't be submitted upstream until it is fixed. It is still usable, however, so perhaps the DE can cherry-pick this patch in for the time being.

Applications start in the wrong orientation

Thanks, Qt Mobility.

See: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTMOBILITY-1385

Files, Videos etc.

Kickstart files for tablet will be available in following gitorious tree: https://gitorious.org/meego-developer-edition-for-n900/image-configurations/blobs/master/tablet/

Some ready made images area available in http://meego.openaos.org/ -> n900

Links

• Sage's technology blog for the image and YouTube demo.
• MeeGo Tablet Developer preview
• UX Components