[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: What kind of tools and utilities you want in ARM

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

None of things you listed are developer tools (debuggers etc).
They are applications or application features.


	- Eero

ext Anuj Verma (Kevin) wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:47:47 +0200, mika.k.leppinen wrote:
>> We are currently thinking what kind of tools and utilities would be the
>> most useful 
>> for ARM based Maemo developers. Idea is that we would host some basic
>> tools and 
>> utilities from common repository and hopefully when new platform version
>> comes 
>> these tools work ASAP and fun can start immediately. So please tell what
>> kind
>> of tools you are using or wishing and why ? 
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mika Leppinen
> 
> Many thanks for asking, 
> 
> I will like to request, following (some in progress) for N800 in stable
> versions: 
> 
> 1. Newer Pan news-reader port, Pan 0.12x 
> http://pan.rebelbase.com/
> (one available is a currently (older) non-maintained port of Pan
> 
> 2. Elinks, text web browser
> - text based browsers are best friends at times.
> 
> 3. Epiphany, Firefox & GNOME based web browser since minimo seems out of
> maintenance for now. 
> - basic reason is for the choice of an alternative browser
> 
> 4. tin - text news-reader 
> - Pan port might take some time,
> 
> 5. Phone addressbook/sms/dial sync tool, maybe - gnokii 
> - none available as of now.
> 
> 6. GAIM instant messenger
> - there are more chat protocols to support
> 
> 7. Snapshot/Video application
> - none available as of now.
> 
> 8. Multisync/Opensync support 
> - maybe a Nokia suit for Windows based on Opensync framework would be a
> nice effort for future cross platform compatibility and help to Opensync
> cross platform development. Nokia & their users should benefit all the way
> and while that Linux desktop users have hopes for making sure their Nokia
> 770/n800 devices can sync. 
> 
> 9. Plucker support 
> - FBreader is there but perhaps Plucker for Palm is the best, if its
> possible to re-write plucker for Linux/n800 that will be the best, else FB
> reader has lot to improve yet. 
> - Oddly enough sunrisexp works better for plucking documents from web,
> then plucker-desktop (just to mention)
> - Perhaps still adding a functionality to quickly pluck document for later
> off-line reading is a nice feature app to suggest, that should add value
> to these devices and saves users on airtime + battery consumption 
> 
> 10. B/W mode for ebook mode if at-all possible with the hardware. 
> - good for reading long web-pages & plucker/e-books, saves battery & eye
> sight of user. 
> 
> 11. Integrated device data encryption options & self destruction of
> data upon brute-force attempts, like on Palms 
> 
> 12. Revelation or gnome-keyring encrypted password data management 
> 
> I hope you'll find these useful.