[Bugsquad] Feature Jar July 2009

Feature jar for Maemo Official Applications and Maemo Official Platform

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General stats (last month's numbers in brakets):

223 (221) open non-moreinfo Enhancement requests; 99 (77) of them filed against Fremantle
10 (10) open moreinfo Enhancement requests
10 (9) Enhancement requests filed in the last 30 days:

• When an IMAP account is selected, only refresh that account's folders
• Lack of official documentation on how to use the accelerometer
• don't list missing dependencies more than once
• [INVALID] browser loading pages slow
• [FIXED] Support for the tel URI scheme (RFC3966)
• Add Truncate Playlist option to Media Player
• Some message operations not available for multiple messages at once.
• Case insensitive folder name check when creating folders
• Option to view or compose a message in new (separate) window
• [FIXED] get_record_cb could call sdp_list_free(classes...) more locally

Maemo Official applications:

Per component:
(only components listed where at least one report has at least two votes)

• Browser
  • Preedit does not function in the browser
  • Browser able to access localhost without Internet connectivity
• Chat and Internet Call
  • SMS support for the chat application
  • Add OTR (Off-the-Record Messaging) support for IM client
  • Allow setting priority in Jabber/GTalk
• Contacts
  • Address book should support importing either LDIF or LDAP
• Email
  • Keep Sent and Drafts on IMAP server
  • Show all accounts in the folder view
  • Please provide an attribution line for replying
  • Modest doesn't support S/MIME encryption
  • Option to update unread mail count in all folders
  • Send-Only Identities in Modest Email Client
• Home applets
  • Connection applet source should be open
• Map
  • Integrate Evolution Contact addresses to Map application
  • Maps should restart showing your previous location, not the country at a zoomed out level
  • Provide map overlap if moving out of map area or automatically load new map
• Media player
  • Please consider open-sourcing the media player
  • Fast forward or rewind media files
• RSS feed reader
  • Add "Appear in Desktop" flag for each feed
• Settings and Maintenance
  • osso-software-version-rx*4 dependencies prevent removing many unnecessary packages
  • Setting a device name should set also the hostname
  • Don't show disclaimers unnecesarily when installing/updating software
  • List new applications in Application Manager
  • bluetooth keyboard repeat rate control needed
  • Streamlining user access to the Extras repository
• Utilities
  • Please add support for 'fit visible' option to PDF reader
  • Requesting integration of some community supplied XTerm enhancements
  • PDF reader: remember position in last opened document after quit & restart
  • PDF reader: Keep Horizontal Position when Changing Page

Maemo Official platform:

Per component:
(only components listed where at least one report has at least two votes)

• Connectivity
  • Eduroam (EAP-TTLS+PAP) WiFi auth
  • Not able to connect to "localhost" while offline/disconnected
  • Add priority to defined wifi connections
  • USB Ethernet adapter support
  • Impossible to specify proxy username and password
  • "Connect automatically" should be connection specific
  • Ability to send display output to an 802.11 capable projector (new)
  • Support Wifi autoconnection on EAP-TLS
• Core
  • Kernel lacks IPv6 support
  • Bind Maemo hardware keys to their own keycodes, separate from generic F-keys
  • Enable features in Busybox to increase its tools GNU/Debian compatibility (+1)
  • Add support for Mac partition tables to Kernel (Was HFS+) (-1)
• Data
  • Open source metalayer-crawler and libmetalayer
  • Media Player: Support for ID3v2 chapters
• Desktop platform
  • Provide hooks into the File manager and file selector for other file systems
  • Application menu should have enough top-level folders to match package sections
  • Better support for n810 numeric data
• Development platform
  • please provide uclibc/eabi toolchain for building stuff for initfs (+1)
  • Development environment should support x86_64 and other non-x86 platforms (-1)
  • Lack of official documentation on how to use the accelerometer (new)
  • Lack of documentation on how to find determine which MMC cards, if any, are present (-1)
  • Better GUI design guidelines (-1)
• Flasher
  • flasher-3.0 not available for MacOS X PPC
  • flasher-3.0 not available for N8x0 and Linux/PowerPC
  • Extract data from the rootfs of a reboot-looping device
• Location
  • Request for information to allow hooking into A-GPS location framework
• Multimedia
  • OGG Vorbis support
  • add equalizer
  • Support FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
• System software
  • Quick softpoweroff mode
  • lock screen should have 'if lost' info
  • Add GUI configuration for soft poweroff
• UI Specification
  • Grey out (instead of hiding) Memory cards in File Manager when USB connected
  • Modest does not inherit text zoom level when exiting message view

-andre