[Bugsquad] Feature Jar September 2009

Feature jar for Maemo Official Applications and Maemo Official Platform

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

229 (232) open non-moreinfo Enhancement requests; 124 (109) of them filed against Fremantle
9 (10) open moreinfo Enhancement requests
10 (15) Enhancement requests filed in the last 31 days:

• Support silent build rules with automake 1.11
• Add option in modest to add/not add new contact when replying to mail
• Bluetooth system documentation
• Email: View source of message
• Email: View text version of HTML message
• [DUPL] Should be able to navigate to a contact's address
• Deleting email should be more evident...
• Add option to disable/enable periodic apt updates
• Provide multi-user chat (chatroom / IRC) support again
• [FIXED] Action button sensitivity should not be set for HildonEditToolbar

Maemo Official applications:
General Top 10 (copied from Stephen's Bug jar):

• (7%) 2557 Keep Sent and Drafts on IMAP server
• (5%) 761 Please add support for 'fit visible' option to PDF reader (+2 this month)
• (5%) 1282 List new applications in Application manager (+3 this month)
• (5%) 2758 Setting a device name should set also the hostname (-1 this month)
• (4%) 1235 Please consider open-sourcing the media player
• (4%) 2710 Don't show disclaimers unnecesarily when installing/updating software (+1 this month)
• (4%) 3929 Requesting integration of some community supplied XTerm enhancements (+1 this month)
• (3%) 1851 Add "Appear in Desktop" flag for each feed (+1 this month)
• (3%) 2670 bluetooth keyboard repeat rate control needed (new this month)
• (3%) 2962 Integrate Evolution Contact addresses to Map application (new this month)

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
  • Add OTR (Off-the-Record Messaging) support for IM client (+1 this month)
  • Allow setting priority in Jabber/GTalk (+1 this month)
  • Provide multi-user chat (chatroom / IRC) support again (new this month)
• Contacts
  • Integrate Evolution Contact addresses to Map application (new this month)
  • Address book should support importing either LDIF or LDAP (-1 this month)
• Email
  • Keep Sent and Drafts on IMAP server
  • Show all accounts in the folder view
  • Modest doesn't support S/MIME encryption (+1 this month)
  • Please provide an attribution line for replying (-1 this month)
  • Microsoft Exchange support in email application (new this month)
  • Option to update unread mail count in all folders (-1 this month)
  • Send-Only Identities in Modest Email Client (-1 this month)
• Map
  • Provide map overlap if moving out of map area or automatically load new map (+2 this month)
• 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
  • List new applications in Application Manager (+2 this month)
  • Setting a device name should set also the hostname
  • Don't show disclaimers unnecesarily when installing/updating software (+1 this month)
  • bluetooth keyboard repeat rate control needed (+1 this month)
  • should offer remove/install multiple packages at once (new this month)
  • Streamlining user access to the Extras repository
• Statusbar widgets
  • Connection applet source should be open
• 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:
General Top 10 (copied from Stephen's Bug jar):

• (38%) 176 OGG Vorbis support
• (10%) 1635 Eduroam (EAP-TTLS+PAP) WiFi auth
• (4%) 2527 Support FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) (+4 this month)
• (3%) 1043 Add priority to defined wifi connections (-1 this month)
• (3%) 1767 Not able to connect to "localhost" while offline/disconnected triggers network search (-1 this month)
• (3%) 943 Quick softpoweroff mode (-1 this month)
• (2%) 793 lock screen should have 'if lost' info (e.g. display owner contact info) (-1 this month)
• (2%) 3373 please provide Diablo uclibc/eabi toolchain for building stuff for initfs
• (2%) 4082 Open source metalayer-crawler and libmetalayer
• (2%) 4874 Publically document CAL config entries in /dev/mtd1 config area (new this month)

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

• Connectivity
  • Eduroam (EAP-TTLS+PAP) WiFi auth
  • Add priority to defined wifi connections
  • Not able to connect to "localhost" while offline/disconnected
  • "Connect automatically" should be connection specific
  • USB Ethernet adapter support
  • Impossible to specify proxy username and password
  • Ability to send display output to an 802.11 capable projector
  • Support Wifi autoconnection on EAP-TLS
• Core
  • Publically document CAL config entries in /dev/mtd1 config area (new this month)
  • Kernel lacks IPv6 support (-1 this month)
  • Bind Maemo hardware keys to their own keycodes, separate from generic F-keys (-1 this month)
  • Enable features in Busybox to increase its tools GNU/Debian compatibility (-1 this month)
  • Add support for Mac partition tables to Kernel (Was HFS+) (-1 this month)
• Data
  • Media Player: Support for ID3v2 chapters (+1 this month)
• 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
  • Add S60 5th-style arrow keys to the finger keyboard (+1 this month)
  • No way to clear/reset word prediction dictionary (new this month)
• Development platform
  • please provide uclibc/eabi toolchain for building stuff for initfs
  • Lack of official documentation on how to use the accelerometer
  • Development environment should support x86_64 and other non-x86 platforms
  • Lack of documentation on how to find determine which MMC cards, if any, are present
  • Better GUI design guidelines
• Flasher
  • Request for information on FIASCO format used for firmware images (new this month)
  • 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
  • Support FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
  • add equalizer
• 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