Open development/Maemo roadmap/Harmattan
Harmattan is the codename of the release to come after Fremantle.
The content of this page is based on known events and announcements. It is very far from complete at the moment.
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[edit] Harmattan timeline
- 2008-05-29: "Harmattan" codename and Qt support announced in LinuxTag 2008. See maemo LinuxTag update.
- 2009-07-04: Cross-platform approach, toolkit switch and architecture overview explained in the Maemo Harmattan keynote at GCDS (slidecast - video). Talk discussion - Der Standard - Slashdot - Vincent Untz blog from a GNOME perspective - ars technica - OS News - CNet - LinuxDevices.com - LWN.
Expected:
- 2009-10-09/11: Harmattan news are expected in the Maemo Summit. Some related sessions are already scheduled.
[edit] New
- Qt 4.6
- Some Qt Mobility APIs supported (to be defined)
- Rygel UPnP media server.
- Framework for community localization.
[edit] Changes
- Official application framework based on Qt. Hildon/GTK+ libraries are expected to be supported by the community.
[edit] Enhancement requests implemented
| Product | Component | ID | Summary (32 tasks) ⇒ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat & Call & SMS | Call Application UI | 10446 | Show multiple contacts for a shared number instead of the number |
| Chat & Call & SMS | Call Application UI | 5552+ | When being called it is not clear what number someone used |
| Chat & Call & SMS | Call Application UI | 5378+ | Provide a way to copy an unknown number to clipboard |
| Chat & Call & SMS | Messaging | 5409+ | Cannot send empty SMS |
| Contacts | General | 5481+ | Assisted interactive process for merging contacts |
| Core | Busybox | 7014+ | ash saves only 15 lines of history |
| Core | Busybox | 3032+ | missing diff utility (required by the GNU Coding Standards) |
| Desktop platform | general | 2724+ | Please provide xdg-utils |
| Desktop platform | Home | 3030 | API for services to change wallpaper |
| Desktop platform | Virtual keyboard (halfscreen) | 481 | Virtual Keyboard should get more hints and be smarter |
| General | 6185 | Provide the ability to disable mail accounts | |
| Games | Chess | 755 | chess: changing the colours |
| Games | Marbles | 378 | Marbles colors not good for color blind |
| Images and Camera | Image viewer | 5402 | Image Viewer missing rubber-banding (bounce) effect |
| Map | General | 6346 | Screen should never automatically dim when using Maps |
| Multimedia | Multimedia framework | 2527 | Support FLAC out of the box |
| Multimedia | Multimedia framework | 176 | Ogg Vorbis support out of the box |
| Settings and Maintenance | Control panel | 688 | Let user select default applications for MIME types |
| Statusbar Widgets | Battery | 1046 | Power Management Profiles (AC/Battery, Timed, Environment and screen saver) |
| Synchronization | Mail for Exchange | 8452+ | Provide "provisioning support" for Exchange |
| System software | general | 10829+ | upgrade libsdl-mixer1.2 to version 1.2.8 |
| UI Specification | General | 3866 | Please, add "last used special characters" palette |
| UI Specification | General | 4002+ | Grey out (instead of hiding) Memory cards in File Manager when USB connected |
| Utilities | Clock | 2750 | Support clock synchronization by GPS |
| Utilities | Clock | 472 | Support clock synchronization by NTP |
| Utilities | Clock | 10239 | Alarm settings are not available on alarm screen. |
| Utilities | Clock | 1193 | Enable selectable Alarm to be Internet Radio |
| Utilities | File manager | 1248 | Drag-and-drop requires an excessive number of confirmation dialogs |
| Utilities | PDF reader | 2108 | Allow searching in PDF documents |
| Utilities | PDF reader | 5403 | No kinetic scrolling and rubber banding (bounce effect) in PDF reader |
| Utilities | PDF reader | 10405+ | PDF Reader should have a "Go to page..." feature |
| Utilities | PDF reader | 3057 | PDF Reader should have "Continuous" mode |
[edit] Bugs fixed
| Product | Component | ID | Summary (44 tasks) ⇒ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat & Call & SMS | Call Application UI | 6835+ | Phone contact viewer should allow selection of call type, and filter contacts accordingly |
| Chat & Call & SMS | Call Application UI | 10864+ | call log missing non-cellular call options for numbers without contacts |
| Chat & Call & SMS | Messaging | 7128+ | Pressing Return hardware key in 'To' field should bring up contacts, not a new line |
| Chat & Call & SMS | Messaging | 10640+ | Going online with Skype after lots of Skype chats on another machine freezes device for minutes |
| Chat & Call & SMS | Presence | 5670+ | Generic "Unable to connect to one or more accounts" message unhelpful |
| Chat & Call & SMS | Telepathy | 8615+ | telepathy-sofiasip uses lots of memory and causes the phone to swap |
| Chat & Call & SMS | XMPP | 6531+ | Extended IM contact info is not fetched for XMPP contacts |
| Chat & Call & SMS | XMPP | 7362+ | XMPP client doesnt log off if device is shut down on NATed connection |
| Connectivity | ICD | 10371+ | No signals are emitted in test-connect.c of libconic (0.24+0m5) |
| Connectivity | Networking | 10164+ | DHCP assigned netmask 255.255.255.255 results in no routes |
| Contacts | General | 5480+ | undo/un-merge merged contacts |
| Core | Busybox | 2918 | Shell line editing doesn't support UTF-8, non-ASCII letters followed by Ctrl+a in XTerminal move cursor too far to the left |
| Core | Busybox | 6606+ | No getopts, called by init-functions (lsb-base) |
| Core | Busybox | 5317+ | Shell does not save command history / Busybox doesn't handle SIGHUP properly |
| Core | Busybox | 9247+ | Busybox fuser command is non-functional |
| Core | Busybox | 7944+ | utilities infocmp, tic, tput etc not installed though busybox provides ncurses-bin |
| Core | Busybox | 11537+ | busybox "date -I" segfaults |
| Core | Busybox | 3957+ | Busybox does not support "ls -Q" which some scripts need |
| Core | general | 6183+ | lsof reports incorrect inode for replaced mmaped files |
| Core | Kernel | 8715+ | iphb module dereferences NULL pointer |
| Desktop platform | Fonts | 6302+ | Fonts are missing many arrows (used by IDN shortener URLs) |
| Development platform | general | 6025+ | ContextKit: No rule to make target `context-intro.html' |
| Development platform | general | 5899+ | ContextKit: Build fails without asciidoc |
| Development platform | general | 5996+ | ContextKit: Doesn't check for libxml-dom-perl, then fails. |
| Development platform | SDK | 4734+ | lsb-core conflicts with python >= 2.6, blocking PyMaemo from upgrading to 2.6 |
| General | 3888+ | IMAP-IDLE not working | |
| Images and Camera | Camera | 9085+ | Camera lens is returned too hard back to home position |
| Location | General | 11354+ | gypsy-daemon can not parse GPRMC message from external GPS receiver |
| Map | General | 9472+ | Shows many house numbers in Czech Rep. at inaccurate position and shows non-existing houses |
| Map | General | 9202+ | Maps claim some streets in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland are in Czech Republic (near the border) |
| Map | General | 10299+ | Current location icon does not indicate accuracy of fix |
| Multimedia | Multimedia framework | 8308+ | Media Player does not resume playback after a ringtone is played in Settings/Profiles |
| Multimedia | Pulseaudio | 10929+ | Playback volume of audio song reduces after resume when ending skype call. |
| Multimedia | Pulseaudio | 7484+ | After playing music, hanging up a call, music returns to previous volume directly (can hurt ears) |
| System software | Upstart | 7514+ | /etc/modules doesn't load modules as expected |
| Telephony | General | 8343+ | Skype throws "Incorrect address" error for phone numbers with p (pause tone) in Contacts |
| Telephony | General | 7733+ | ifupdown script environment contains empty IFACE and LOGICAL values when connecting to GPRS |
| UI Specification | General | 2821+ | Connection Manager: Global WLAN power saving settings in per-connection settings |
| UI Specification | General | 11285+ | Bluetooth scan displays empty buttons |
| UI Specification | General | 9610 | Photos app name not consistent with contents of app |
| UI Specification | General | 6739+ | Cannot set Socks5 proxy in the Internet Connection Settings dialog |
| UI Specification | General | 6363+ | Date format should be defined by Regional Settings, not Device Language |
| Utilities | PDF reader | 4600+ | PDF reader wrongly claims that specific PDF file is password protected |
| Utilities | PDF reader | 2150+ | PDF Reader doesn't support internal document hyperlinks |
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