Talk has been out of control for some time and most of the regular helpful posters have left it. It is slowly getting worse and everyone is complaining about it. There are atleast 1 or 2 posts a week claiming an update is out and they run for a few hundred posts before the next OMG update post comes out. There are fake claim 19 page posts talking about porn. On top of personal insults, attacks, and flaming like I have never seen on Talk. I think most people will agree something needs to be done before talk is to far gone to save.
Brainstorm
Brainstorms
Setup new Talk Moderator Structure.
Posted on 2010-04-07 11:56 UTC by Andrew Black. Status: Under consideration, Categories: maemo.org.
see the 3 solutions or propose a solution
Citrix client
Posted on 2010-04-08 09:25 UTC by David Martel. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Office.
Citrix is a way of remotely connecting into your work and being able to run applications as if you were in the office. A Citrix client would be a great enhancement for business use of the N900, the high res screen and keyboard make it an ideal mobile client device.
There are currently several mobile clients for other devices, and there has been reports in the forum that the arm build is installable, but it is not really usable. Unfortunately I believe it is closed source, so it is difficult for the community to find a solution without help.
Talk thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=49502
Meta profile selection
Posted on 2010-04-16 20:20 UTC by Thomas Renard. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Location & Navigation, Utilities, User Experience, System.
Brainstorm-talk: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=50022
Profiles for not only ringtone settings:
- Set Bluetooth
- Set 2G/3G/Auto
- Startup/Stop OpenVPN or other tunnels
- Set IM states
- Set Volume
- Set Geolocation for IM
- Startup/Stop geotracking
- Startup/Stop FM Sender
- ...
- (ringtone/vibration settings of course)
(all of these settings at a time with profile change or groups of them)
triggered by events like:
- Menu entry like the classic profile selector
- Defined WLAN is existant
- GSM state (if set to auto)
- Geolocation
- DBUS trigger
- ...
These MetaProfiles should be extendable (to create new modules for triggering and action)
Iphone as an external N900 controller
Posted on 2010-04-16 21:13 UTC by Zac Cassini. Status: Under consideration, Categories: User Experience.
The idea is to use our old iphones as controllers for the N900.
It could act as a game controller.
It could be a media controller strapped to your steering wheel or handheld that would make for safer driving.
It could be used to control a gps app.
I am thinking it could have multiple modes. Just a touchpad, just a keypad, or a touchpad and keypad for the n900.
Specific modes where it acts as a ps3 controller for the n900, or a gui built specifically to control the media and gps apps of the n900.
Port of Screeble (Android) on Maemo 5
Posted on 2010-04-21 09:07 UTC by Jules Me. Status: Under consideration, Categories: System.
I have been thinking of an app that could wakup the N900 by simply taking the phone in hand, using the accelerometer to calculate the angle of the phone, therefore light up the screen. It has been done before and an application exists for Android (http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/goog...ews/58778.aspx).
This is exacly what I'd like the N900 to do. We do have the hardware to do this, but my coding skills aren't that great ...
I was think of a crond that reads a file to get the coordonates of the phone x,y,z.
the file /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-3/3-001d/coord has the coordinates, if a crond could read the file then unlock the phone and light up the screen.
Any ideas?