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Mer/Releases/0.15

Revision as of 20:37, 20 July 2009

Release not fully done yet.

Notable accomplishments and news

• Faster docpurge (thanks to qwerty12)
• glib2.20 now used
• N8x0: Open hald-addon-bme (You can enable advanced power and get battery meter)
• Our USB networking now uses IPs matching USB_networking, Mer/Documentation/USB_networking and bootmenu. 192.168.2.14 for host, 2.15 for device.
• New webkit browser: Tear, by Bundyo
• E-mail client: Claws-mail
• hildon gconf-editor
• lbt will be presenting at UKUUG 09: see Mer/Events/UKUUG_09
• Stskeeps and zenvoid will be doing a BoF on DebConf9, 2009-07-25 13:00 on Mer
• Changed default language to en_US, and added new open source strings by timeless
• Added Chinese translations (dalin)
• Proper localization on Neo Freerunner
• No more cursor blinking in X-Terminal
• 770 support TBA
• Smart Q7 rebate on Mer/Proposals/SmartQ_Developer_Programme not possible - but help us get to 10 proposals or above so we can get Q5 rebates!
• N8x0: Kalle Valo is doing a kernel mainlining project - see http://kvalo.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/n800n810-support-to-mainline-kernels/ - it is very recommended if you have any contributions to make that you make them. It will get us modern kernels on N8x0.
• N8x0: Mer kernels now have new patches: Japanese FM Radio frequencies for N800, MB2504 fixed, Patch to kernel to allow DSP framebuffer sharing on N8x0 devices) to kernel, nbd in kernel modules, A2DP improvements - thanks too tomaszd for integrating
• Q5/Q7: Backlight parameter for kernel (zenvoid)
• SmartDevices has donated two Q7's to us
• First boot wizard is now a /etc/first-boot-wizard.d process, like start-hildon.d - easy to add first boot wizard items to run. (epage)
• Removed marquee plugins which were not working or broken
• Add 'Network Settings' option to menu that appears when networking is disabled for nm-applet
• Locale picker by qwerty12 and timeless
• Disable grab in gksu for n800/non-kbd users
• Input, About control panel (epage)
• N8x0: Now uses Xomap instead of Xorg. Should make graphics more smooth.
• Maemo will be switching to Qt for Harmattan. We'll probably be going same way - but supporting both toolkits. We already have Qt/Maemo running :)
• eshopen.com donated a virtual machine to us
• How to make your Maemo application compile and run on Mer

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