Brainstorm

Lots of corporate users would like to use Maemo 5/N900 instead of Nokia E-series devices but the biggest obstacle for them is the lack of data encryption support. This is important if the device got lost or stolen and we want to keep the confidential corporate information at safe.

I used My N900 as my main music player; indeed 22gigs of my memory is dedicated to Music.

This brainstorm is about improving the user experience in Modest, the built-in email client in Maemo 5, when the client performs long-running operations. Irrespective of any performance improvements implemented in the email client, the fact that Modest needs to, for example, download potentially large amount of data over a slow network connection means that some operations will inevitably take a long time (where long time = more than two seconds).

N900 - Maemo 5 (and others)

PPTP is a VPN protocol that is found everywhere, mainly because it is easy to setup in the Windows world. It may not be the best VPN out there, but there are lots of people would would benefit from being able to easily connect to their coporate network.

PPTP (and maybe others, like OpenVPN) should somehow be added to the Connection Manager. There should be possible for the user to associate a connection (GPRS, Wifi, etc) with PPTP so that it can be used in an easy manner.

Desktop Linux has it, Windows mobile has it, iPhone has it and Windows client also has it. It is about time N900 can have it, too.

Thread:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=481092#post481092

It seems that Extras-testing is not currently working very efficiently. There are many applications in there that have been there for very long time. While proper testing of applications is necessary, it serves nobodies interests if takes too long. This especially problematic for updates of existing applications.