Brainstorm: Implemented

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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Call recording

john.maemo@pelago.org.uk (John Veness) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:27:47 +0000

The N900 does not have a feature to record calls. This could be useful to users. For example: Your wife called you to buy the groceries. With this recording function you can simply click on the record button to record the conversation then play back the conversation to listen to the item needed by your wife.

Discussion thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33296

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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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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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Repositioning Modest SEND button

anidel@gmail.com (Aniello Del Sorbo) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:27:01 +0000

The SEND button in Modest, in Fremantle, is inside the scrollable area of the mail view.

This means that the button will scroll up as you type more text in your reply and you've got to scroll all the way up to reach it and tap it to send.

I think this is annoying.

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Alternate twitter clients as a choice

corqpub@gmail.com (Lori Easterly) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:02:41 +0000

A truly flexible platform might allow for "ports" of lightweight twitter applications based on webkit, with adjustable-font GUIs that can be finger-friendly to the tablet platform.

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Support subtitles in Media Player

S.G.Pickering@bath.ac.uk (Simon Pickering) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:25:46 +0000

Allow Media Player to read and display subtitles for video files.

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SMS via the instant messaging client

henri.bergius@iki.fi (Henri Bergius) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:44:41 +0000

(Originally posted at https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2725)

Maemo contains a nice instant messaging client based on Telepathy. Maemo devices also usually are paired with a mobile phone.

Now this pairing is mostly used for internet connection, but it could also be used for allowing SMS become "just another conversation" in the IM client.

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