Postings in June 2011
So there are people who say that Nokia's N9 isn't MeeGo ...
... and those people are right, if we followed the MeeGo Compliance Spec to the letter.
But at the same time, Nokia's N9 is one of those devices that the MeeGo community has always been waiting for.
If "This is not MeeGo!" is the only thing that comes to your ...
Firefox does silent major version update!?
First I was just annoyed by Firefox's "your browser has been updated and must be restarted nagging banner": It slides in with an annoying animation with each tab you open. Even if you closed it. There is no "nag me not" button. GUYS! I'VE GOT WORK TO DO! On an internal website. This site is secure. I promise: "I won't visit that malware ridden Internet before restarting. Really!"
But then searching for a release log - again no link ...
Brave New World
Today, we managed to get out the first release of Maliit as an independent project. As far as possible without API break, we started to use our own Maliit naming convention for installation paths, library names, etc.
During that cleanup, Jan Arne did a tremendous job improving our build infrastructure. Instead of Qt's .prf files, Maliit now uses pkg-config everywhere. Plugin developers don't have to think about install paths ...
Qt Contributors Summit is over
Really enjoyed the Qt Contributors Summit. Nice, open minded people. Café Moskau turned out as awesome location for technical orientated meetings.
Even held my own little session about my griefs with QObject life-cycle. We found some few chances for improvement, but we also sadly had to conclude that proper two-phase construction and destruction isn't possible in C++, unless you forbid stack allocation and ...
Input methods and Wayland in Qt5
I was attending the Qt Contributors' Summit 2011. During the key note, it was promised that everything is up for discussion so I took my chance to discuss about improving input methods support for Qt5.
After some initial discussions with Kristian Høgsberg (Wayland, of course) and Jørgen Lind (who works on Qt Lighhouse), ...
Decent examples, at last!
Jon spent a lot of time in the last weeks improving our documentation for Maliit. However, while documentation is good (and necessary), Jon thinks that examples are better. I can only agree with that.
I am planning to use Jon's example material for an input method workshop at one of the upcoming MeeGo Freedays (German only) here in Berlin, just to see how useful it ...
Maliit Session at MeeGo Spring Conference 2011
I was attending the MeeGo Spring Conference as an invited speaker, talking about Maliit - the MeeGo Input Methods - and how to develop custom input method plugins for it.
We had more people going to the talk in Dublin than to this one, but at least [the ...
Questions for MeeGo
The MeeGo Spring Conference in San Francisco was nice, perhaps not so much for the press folks (uninspiring key note, no product announcements). As a speaker, I was fortunate enough to receive sponsorship from the Linux Foundation (special thanks to Brian Warner for the unbureaucratic approach to this). I got to meet a lot of people face-to-face and the hallway track spawned interesting discussions, circling around questions such as:
- Why would ...
