[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] First Impression

[From: Florian Boor]

Hello,

Stefan Sels wrote:
> As mentioned on this list, the basic PIM apps are not sufficient, I
> expected a seamles integration with my 7650. Dialup to my predefiend
> network provider ends up with unkown server error. But thats what the
> development program is for ;)
> Maybe mill planned xmas present to myself (n90) will work (and share the
> rs-mmc card)

we just discussed about this topic on IRC :-) We have a set of PIM applications
ported from GPE now which have some support to sync using OpenSync. So far this
was mostly used to sync some mobile device with a PC, but i can't imagine it
would be complicated to run OpenSync on the 770 and sync it with cellphones
(e.g. using SyncML). The only thing we would need to do is to create an OpenSync
package and create a simple maemo user interface for it.

> Surfing the net works fine, while the audioplayer is a bit picky about
> playing streams. www.digitallyimported.com does not work, some other do
> work smooth. Walking around with wireless internet radio is nice.

That seems to be an open bug, i noticed a similar failure with di.fm. When i
entered the URL to the straming server itself (instead of the playlist) it
started to work. So i guess it is not the stream data but the meta information
which causes this behaviour.

> I would like to have some more information from the status/notification
> icons on the top bar. how good is the wlan reception, give the battery
> percentage some where at best while hovering over the icon (did not find
> the voltage status anywhere).

That's a good point, i missed that too. I just hope the kernel drivers expose
this kind of information in a useful way.

> I am still in the process of setting up my scratchbox stuff, beware that
> the apt-get source installs version 1.0. I would love to hack the kernel
> and would be interested which parts are binary only. Is there a tun/tap
> device to use tools like openvpn? Is there a bootloader (i am used from
> linux on iPAQ/simpad) ?

Yes - OpenVPN would rock and in contrast to IPSec it should be much easier to
create a configuration GUI for it. It seems to become more and more popular
because it is easier to set up (even using Windows). Here at our local
university it is just introduced for wireless access because of this.

> As of now I really enoy my device, ScummVM works great, and a game of
> chess shows me that I need to improve my skills. I am looking forward to
> get Tetris, Chess and more games to work via bluetooth and wlan
> multiplayer option.

Hmm... bluetooth multiplayer games would be really cool. Even more if there were
some more devices around supporting this so that you can e.g. play Tetris with
someone else using a cellphone instead a 770.

Greetings

Florian

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