This might be a missed opportunity for open source software to get the acknowledge of average Nokia customers and to compete side by side with non-free / commercial alternatives.

Discussion: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=385610

With some software (Free (FOSS) or no-Free), we can't propose customized features or services, in exchange for remuneration, for businesses. And some developers (principally those are not customary with philosophy of Free Software) are not make free software of this type because with their software, principally for the general public, they want to earn a little money.

Nokia will propose a service that allows users to make, with very little click, donations to the developers / teams they wish to support.

Discussion thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=354950

The Maemo Merchandise Store (MMS) can start with the regular common stuff like T-shirts, tea/coffee mugs, water bottles, usb drives, caps, stickers, etc.

This can be done either by Nokia or by someone interested (or experienced in this stuff) from the community. Either may choose to do this for a reasonable profit too.

Throw in your votes if you think this is well-worth it. Enough votes might actually turn this into reality!

EDIT: Interesting discussion and any possible doubts on licensing issues clarified here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=358341#post358341 (Thanks @Texrat)

It's true that open source doesn't mean you must publish everything, but it does defeat the main point of open source development, which is to do with an open and involve contributions from the community.

It would be ideal to distribute future testing firmwares to trusted contributors in different continents to speed up the testing and verifying issues has been fixed, by doing so, it will significantly improve the turn-around time for the release of new firmwares, at the same time speed up and improve development.

I had a chat with Nokia/Tre where they explained that this possibility is NOT implemented yet om the N900.

Often it's to easy to cancel a Alert or answer a call when the Device is locked (keyboard and touchscreen) and you have to put it out of your pocket and/or your case.

There should be a better action instead only touching a button on the screen.

You hear a alert, put your maemo device out of the pocket and when you have it in your hand the display is dark again. When you unlock the device, there is no hint what's going on? You only know from the sound, was it a alarm, a reminder or a call you've canceled accidentally. But, a reminder? Have you Snooze it or disable it? Have you a appointment in 15 minutes? You have to go to the calendar and search what was going on.

This Brainstorm points to incomming Calls, reminder, Alerts, Alarms and every other event that needs a user action while the Device is locked. The target is to get a consistent solution for all kind of this events.

Here is the Discussion at maemo talk: LINK

Bugs belongs to this: 5982, 7602, 7218

Some discussions related to this problem:

• N900. How to change the UI, move "Reject" button from the bottom to the top?
• N900 phone answering behaviour with resistive screen? 
• Locked screen unlocked when receiving a call
• unlock keys THEN pick up call, is this possible?

Maemo 5 Wishlist (I'd love S60 to do this too....)

1) I'm in the car with bluetooth stereo and bluetooth headset - I want A2DP audio to go to the stereo for music and phone calls to go to the headset and all other "system" sounds to go the device and the headset - not the stereo.

2) I'm at home, have Bluetooth speakers that support A2DP and various otherprofiles but have no microphone - I want to be able to tell N900 to never try and use audio in for this device - and preferably never to use this device for a call.

The solution I want is both (or at least one) of

a) I want priority list for each service type such as "Music", "Phone calls", "System alerts", "Ring tones", "Alarm tones" I set which devices to use in order, or not to disable - including the system speaker/headphones!

so I can have:

(The blackbox has no mic so out of the list)

(Although you _can_ play music on the prime - its crap, and I'd rather it go tothe speakers even when I have the prime in my ear, on and connected)

b) in the Paired devices list to be able to set "controls" on every device - ie be able to set options for each device like:

where exclusive means to not send to other devices lower in the priority order or internal speakers.