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Hargoth,

Hei can you please forward us for us your version etc... cause we know of this bug, and we did everything to avoid it. It passed in all of our tests, but of course sometimes something can go wrong.

so, this was really the most serious bug during our last week, and we want to hunt it down as much as possible, I would be very glad if you can send me everything you have (repositories, version of firmware etc) and if you have instaled the evas demos from Gustavo barbieri.

Br

Marcelo

I don't experience quite that problem but I have an even bigger bug with C2 that might be related. With Canola 2 running, I loose the function for all hardware buttons (except power and hardware menu key) for all other applications. The functions return when I exit Canola 2.

Merry Christmas to all of you,

Hope Suryavanshi is still alive !

I have been reading this thread up until post 59 with rising astonishment. I really do not understand why Suryavanshi’s comment is seen as offending. Some (senior) members (only a few, thanks for that) should realize that there is no use for talk forums like Internet Tablet unless criticism is accepted -even when it hurts. (it always does).

I earlier had such an experience after writing a somewhat disappointed comment on Opera not being in 2008. I ended up reacting that this community - Maemo, Internet Tablet etc -. looked "like a stressed and defending community. Not necessary and not reassuring ." Later I tried to delete my message, because the discussion was getting "somewhat besides the road" .

However, reading this thread on Canola, I would like to restate my observation, because this Canola thread is sometimes "way off the road" and that is not good for Nokia and the "Open Source community". Please remember: the enemy is listening!

Regarding Canola: It’s better than Release I, my kids (28 - 30) like the looks – especially the Photo Views, but I have to agree with Suryavanshi: the manner in which this Beta version was dropped in a public environment is not helpful for promoting the Nokia tablets at all. Beta versions should only be distributed to a limited and carefully chosen group- you all know that. I do not know who is to blame for all this, but that is not my problem: I am just a poor guy who did buy his Nokia N800 for fun in July of this year for 409 € ( Aiii, did I see < 200$ ?).

I still love My N800, everything is running in OS2008, I do respect the work that has been and still is being done, but I am also concerned over Maemo, the Internet Tablet Forum, it’s contribuants and OS2008.

I certainly will watch Nokia’s steps regarding this all with much interest.

I also wrote earlier that the Maemo end TEAM people have to mature their work (architecture, alignment, quality control, etc.) rapidly, otherwise Nokia OS 2009 will perhaps be Windows CE or with Opera or Safari - or whatever non Maemo.

Nevertheless, I do see the potential for great success and love my N800 and the walkaround web! I did in particular buy the N800 because, as a professional (40 years IT), I am very interested in the inventive way Nokia is trying to develop the concept.

Hope you guys appreciate my comments.

(If not: I always can buy that black thing with safari (Safari? Yes, that’s how they call it on their website). Afterall I am just a stupid customer.

(PS: do you realize that Nokia can’t advertise with Canola, and are you happy with that ? – just testing…)

As always: Have fun and a happy OS2008 !,

Abel.

NB,
I wrote above that everything is running in OS2008. There is however:
- a bug in fonts in RSS (no é or ë etc.) and

- Internet Tablet Talk makes my browser shut down or even stops the machine. Perhaps a memory problem, but I have started checking for viruses or hacking.

I know this thread is the wrong place and will put the bugs on the right zilla spot, but anyone else having these problems?

Susdio,

Yes this is exactly the roblem. It wasn't supposed to exist anymore, and thus we need your specifictions to add to our test bed. Can you send us, device, firmware version used, applications that you have installed, and when you installed canola2? There was a fast closed beta, and people who installed that version founded the critical bugs for us and we ran like crazy to fix them. But I'm really sad that this one still happens.

we will do our best to fix it.

I must say, I really like canola for the most part. I'm on a N800 using os2008. The interface is slick and pretty much foolproof. I do wish there was a folder tree as well as ID3 tag listing for mp3's though. And video playback isn't anywhere near as smooth as mplayer. But with the right time and polish, i think this could be THE app for media on the n800

Good work.

@newf

Folder navigation is coming in the next update. We wanted to do it right. actually is not a tree, as tree ddon't work good at all in horizontal widescreens (I have been working with a huge software for maemo with that... ) but it's coming and seamless integrated and usable by all applications not only music.

Video playback is funny, if you have mplayer.... it's mplayer playingl..hitting fullscreen..canola goes almost to sleep (just listen to events) and who is actually playing is mplayer... I received a email about a user with that problem.. I don;'t know exactly what he did... but he came back saying (well I did some updates in mplayer and this and now its fine.. just like playing on pure mplayer ) what actually should be the norm.

Anyways, yes.. we are focused on improving and polishing more and more... and not wnating to be the application, but at least something that makes the internet tablet better and more atractive as product. In the end we want the platform to succed!

Hmm hopefully with folder navigation comes selecting folders not to scan. Or an exceptions thing. (it bugs me when I see the album art in the pictures area..but oh well).

Laughing man :

I think you are already doing that =) the settings does that.. I think the folder navigation will be for your specific media, so we will ignore other file types inside that folders...

But this is the kind of thing that we will avoid: We do know the importance of some features, but we will deliberated not attend all small issues... because if we do so, the whole idea and concept behind simplicity goes under water. "just add this.. and this and this" and you have a nice looking tree view that you cannot even see in which level you're and also.. a nice look hierarchical menu from the 80's on top of it =)

This will not happen =)

But again : if you configured you media folders.. your album art probably are not showing on photos today =)))

BR

Configure my media folders? I'm sorry, don't think I understand?

The pictures folder I have are on the same SD card as my music folder(which also have album art inside the music folders) and there is a covers folder on that SD card that UMKP generated.

But I guess I can just move the pictures to another folder. Then move the manga from the other SD card onto the external and have Canola2 not scan the external for images. Hmm need to get a bigger SD card, that poster was right when 2x2 GB cards isn't enough space.

Hi laughingman..

When I say configure your media folders I say :
Open canola, click on settings.. media library.. and you will find :

Audio folders
Photo folders
Video folders.

Click on one of those.. open a file browse thing.. where you "Mark" the Eye with a V the folders you want canola to specificly scan for that file type. So for example... if you have a folder called "MyPictures" and today.. you are scanning the whole "Removable Card" it's possible that the covers are showing up there..

So go there.. unselect the whole card.. and select only the folders you want to watch.

you don't need to move pictures.

But if I got correctly and you have a folder.. with music, pictures and everything inside.. then ehhehe a little bit of changing would be good =) because we can't do magic.. =)

BR