Brainstorm

Brainstorms, category System

N900 to show the number of unread messages next to Nokia Messaging account

Posted on 2009-12-13 11:06 UTC by Venomrush .. Status: Under consideration, Categories: System.

See https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6391 for details.

 

Currently only showing Nokia Messsaging accounts not the number of unread messages next to them similar to Symbian devices.

 

Wifi-based Proximity Profiles

Posted on 2009-11-03 22:24 UTC by . Status: Under consideration, Categories: Utilities, User Experience, System.

It would be very useful to have a setup which allows your profiles to change automatically based on your location. Obviously this isn't practical by using GPS because that'll suck the battery dry, but since most people will have wifi on permanently, it might be possible to use that instead.

Additionally, it would be pretty swish to have the device automatically open and close applications based on these profiles. Other changes could include ringtone/vibrate, power settings, gps on/off, bluetooth on/off, etc.

Simply, the device could be set to activate profile A (vibrate, calendar, calculator, VNC, bluetooth, etc) when connected to, say, work_wifi_network_abc, and then deactivate when it is no longer connected. The device may then activate Profile B (ringtones, bluetooth, music, etc) when connected to home_wifi network.

 

 

Shortcut to switch between running applications

Posted on 2010-01-11 23:00 UTC by Tasos F.. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Desktop, System, Programming.

Hello everyone, So I was thinking about how to make the N900 user experience even easier while multitasking. Would it be possible to create a keyboard shortcut that will allow the user to switch between running applications? For example, you have these applications running in the dashboard: 1) Web browser 2) Conversations 3) File manager When clicking CTRL+1 it would go to Web browser. CTRL+2 Conversations etc This shortcut is just an example. Let me know what you think so we can create a brainstorm.

 

Forum discussion:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39756

 

Predictive Dialler

Posted on 2009-11-24 07:00 UTC by Venomrush .. Status: Under consideration, Categories: System, Devices.

Taken from http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=388189

 

It'll be great to have the dialer picking up the names of contacts when you input few letters from their names or the first few numbers of the phone number using the dialing pad.

 

Similar feature to feature on WM dialpad.

 

Get Cryptography Average Joe Ready

Posted on 2009-11-16 11:15 UTC by Rüdiger Schiller. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Utilities, User Experience, System.

There is no GnuPG GPG PGP environment, no dm-crypt, no blowfish-button in file-context-menus and no GU interfaces ready to use for Joe Average!

There was already the question of securing private data.

 

What is the best way to get email/IM/file/addressbook de/encryption/signing to Joe and his friends.

Should it be part of all programs containing private data? Should there be a Privacy Manager Tool to manage keys keyrings, encrypted files, addressbooks and calendar entries?

 

Encrypting the whole filesystem is neither a solution for the private data nor for email. It slows down the system and drains the battery. On my Netbook its costs are about 1-2Watts, speed I dont realy recognize.

 

talk: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=377829