Brainstorm: Milestone Fremantle

MMS Support

frals@frals.se (Nick Leppänen Larsson) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:14:57 +0000

MMS support is missing from the N900/Maemo5.

This is a feature those of us with friends without push e-mail (and the likes) do quite enjoy on our current phones.

Related talk-thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=32129

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SyncML support in Maemo5

jukey@ju-key.de (Uwe Kaminski) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:58:36 +0000

Maemo5 does not support SyncML out of the box. SyncML is a standard used to synchronize clients with a SyncML server. There are open source server software (like Funambol provides) and a lot of clients for nearly every plattform as you can see here. The idea is to have also a solution to synchronize Contacts, calendar entries, tasks and notes (and maybe more stuff) from the N900 (Maemo5) to a SyncML server.

Services (free and paid) offering SyncML can be found here.

Thread in talk.maemo.org to discuss: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=37034

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Portrait mode support to the browser

spam1@meins.net (Corwin Amber) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:02:31 +0000

It would be great if the browser could also be used in portrait mode. Some pages just fit better that way. Also for one handed reading it would be better to hold the device in portrait mode.

Furthermore all of the competition supports it, users might be wondering why this is not the case here.

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Automatically grab avatars from social services for Contacts app

qselma@googlemail.com (Heinrich Schäfer) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:39:15 +0000

The maemo 5 contact manager allows you to add a lot of details to a contact.

But it is very annoying to add images and personal informations if your contact list grows big.

Discussion thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=358133

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Add voting for the actual ideas

jex_o_jex@yahoo.com (F Random) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:04:05 +0000

Brainstorm type sites that I have used before allow users to rate the ideas themselves, but the current maemo.org implementation appears to only allow rating the solutions. Whilst this is nice to see which solution would be preferred, it does not give a clear indication of which ideas are considered the most useful/important by the community. A further issue with the current system is that if you do not propose a solution to your idea, you can't get any votes at all. Rating of the idea itself should be the most obvious option available to a viewer, and solution ratings should be kept but given less emphasis.

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Google Calendar & Contacts synchronization

henri.bergius@iki.fi (Henri Bergius) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:00:01 +0000

Google Calendar and Google Contacts are a popular way to manage PIM data "in the cloud". They are available nicely through the Google Apps web interfaces, and are supported for synchronization by many applications ranging from Apple's OS X desktop to iPhone and GNOME Evolution. However, on Maemo there is no way to synchronize them.

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Make the browser feel more a part of the system

henri.bergius@iki.fi (Henri Bergius) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:27:55 +0000

Web applications are becoming more and more sophisticated with new techniques and users flocking to AJAX-based rich internet applications. Now the Maemo Browser still feels very much stuck in the "document-based web" idea although there would be potential to much more.

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Landing in Brainstorm

quim.gil@nokia.com (Quim Gil) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:32:48 +0000

Currently landing in Brainstorm is pretty bad. First you need to find it or even know it exists. Then the default page (now http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/list/ideas/fremantle/) is anything but simple and self-explanatory for a newcomer. And not even that useful for regular visitors. There is already a proposal for Improving the Brainstorm layout but this one here concentrates on the landing page and the ways to get there.

Talk discussion: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=32112

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Improving the Brainstorm layout

quim.gil@nokia.com (Quim Gil) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:32:01 +0000

The layout of the Brainstorm is quite confusing and affects the overall usability of the site, not only for newcomers but also after regular use. There are some proposals already open - vote for them!

Add voting for the actual ideas would imply listings of proposals without listing the solutions proposed for each proposal.
Users tend to file solutions as problems into maemo.org brainstorm would help getting shorter proposals just stating problems, favouring shorter listings as well.
Watching brainstorm would direct regular users directly to proposal pages, bypassing the less efficient listings.
Brainstorm discussion split between Brainstorm and Talk would leave the proposal pages cleaner, only with problem and solutions being voted and the discussion happening elsewhere.

Here you can post solutions concentrating on the UI layout.

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PIM Support

atmasphere@atmasphere.net (Jonathan Greene) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:51:19 +0000

Every new user wonders where it is ... let's add the functions by default. We need a solid contact manager, the ability to see and sync a calendar and it should be part of the system.

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