Development/Tasks

Applications

This page lists some of the more important open issues for Maemo Leste. We have a complete list here, on github, but it's a bit hard to navigate: https://github.com/maemo-leste/bugtracker/issues

Task	Description	Task Status	User(s) working on task	GH Bug	URLs	Notes
Monitor keyboard slide and attached state	Required on devices with a keyboard like Nokia_N900 and Motorola_Droid_4 to show specific parts of the virtual keyboard, or rotate	DONE	User:ThomasAH, Spinal84	https://github.com/maemo-leste/ke-recv/pull/2 ; https://github.com/maemo-leste/bugtracker/issues/17#issuecomment-528497018	ke-recv part for slide monitoring is in place, we just need live keyboard-attached monitoring now. https://github.com/maemo-leste/mce/blob/master/event-input.c#L474 https://github.com/maemo-leste/ke-recv-extra/blob/master/src/input-device.c	mce has quite some usable code for this already, resulting code should probably go into ke-recv-extra (aka hulda). mer-core (sailfish/nemomobile) has keyboard monitoring integrated into mce, so we could also look at (using) that
Gtk3 port of theme and hildon widgets	Big task, port hildon widgets and theme from gtk2 to gtk3. Funding is available for this task	WIP/TODO		https://github.com/maemo-leste/bugtracker/issues/261		Some work was done in the past
Qt5 of theme and hildon widgets	Significant task	MOSTLY	User:freemangordon made a start, User:Wizzup picked up some of the work		https://github.com/maemo-leste/qtstyleplugins/ + https://github.com/maemo-leste/qt-platform-maemo/tree/qmenu	Mainly usable already!
Forward-port clutter patches from Nokia N900 clutter 0.8 to libclutter1.0 ?	*MAYBE* Required on devices with a PowerVR GPU like Nokia_N900 and Motorola_Droid_4 for hildon-desktop to work. In particular important for Droid 4 to get accelerated hildon-desktop	DONE (by staying at clutter 0.8)			https://github.com/spinal84/clutter-0.8/tree/blit/debian/patches
libicd-network-ofono should set up ipv4 (and ipv6) upon connect	Required to get usable cellular data. Provisioning is done, but the actual link itself is not yet set up. Once we have this, we should have usable cellular data on all devices with a supported modem.	WIP
Extend ofono droid4 modem support	There is some ofono support in a branch, but it lacks a sim manager and some other interfaces required for maemo userspace	WIP	Tony, Pavel and User:Wizzup are working on this		https://github.com/pavelmachek/ofono/commits/d4-v1.29
Set up leste "extras" repository	A repository with non-core applications, games, etc would be very welcome	DONE	User:Wizzup, User:Parazyd		https://github.com/maemo-leste-extras ; https://maemo.org/downloads/score/Maemo5/25/
Finish connui-cellular port to ofono	Porting of connui libraries, status and home applets, settings applets and pincode applets to ofono	WIP	User:Wizzup	https://github.com/maemo-leste/bugtracker/issues/256	https://github.com/maemo-leste/connui-cellular
Test phone calls on the N900	Figure out cmtspeechdata magic	WIP?	User:Wizzup, User:Sicelo, Pavel
Test phone calls on the droid4	Phone calls should work, with audio, when alsamixer is set up properly, let's test it!	WORKS	User:Wizzup, User:Sicelo
Create simple phone UI to test dialing/accepting phone calls using Telepathy	Would be good to test phone calls, can be simple/not-pretty, using telepathy is good, could be sip or real calls	WIP	?
"hildonize" surf2 or create a simple "hildonized" gtk2 webkit browser	We'll need a basic browser. surf2 (in Debian) could be a good start, but the current package needs gtk3, and we only have a hildon (maemo ui) port for gtk2 right now. So let's make sure we can build something with webkit against gtk2.	WIP	User:Parazyd
Look at N900 power saving	We do not hit omap off modes nearly as much as we should (in fact, we never do), this should be looked at	WIP	User:Wizzup, tmlind			Actually works quite well on the droid4. Let's do the same for Droid4. :)
osso-abook	We need osso-abook in place for all applications that need contacts (phone ui, sms ui, email ui, more)	WIP	User:freemangordon		https://github.com/maemo-leste/osso-abook	Making good progress
hildon-application-manager usable	We currently have HAM packaged, but it needs fixes for various compile issues we hacked around, cssu-specific parts need to be removed, and we need to figure out what we need to do for our repositories to make it work well	DONE	User:minicom, User:Wizzup, User:Parazyd			Goal is to have a usable app manager, so let's just use it, fix it, use it, etc.
Fix virtual keyboard rendering	On a screen that is not the same of the N900 (800x480), the virtual keyboard doesn't look very pretty. Lets just make it work on any display size	DONE
Fix remaining hildon-desktop portait mode issues	The application launcher results in a black screen, and osso-xterm in portait mode is also resulting in a black screen	DONE	User:freemangordon
Port all packages for maemo-leste to debhelper 9 or higher	Requires for us to migrate to a newer Debian (Buster) / Devuan (Beowulf)	DONE	User:Parazyd, User:Wizzup, User:meridion, User:Spinal84	https://github.com/maemo-leste/bugtracker/issues/234