people are crazy to keep refreshing the offical website to wait for the download link !
improvment:
* An additional feature of the Bluetooth dial-up wizard to simplify the Bluetooth dial-up steps
* An increase of the Bluetooth dial-up equipment for the network card or USB auto-detection feature
* An increase of CDMA network dial-up options
* An additional finger keyboard and automatic / manual switching functions of the pop-up keyboard
* Increase in online video browser can not find access to tips and video tips
* An increase of off-line RSS reader
* Added interface to support English
* To improve the system start-up speed
* Power management interface to increase the use of the distinction between the different settings of
* WLAN connectivity simplifies the steps to automatically prompted to enter password
* Optimization of the wireless network connection status indicates that an increase of the interface is to start WiFi setup tips
* Amendments to the MPD / Sonata in dealing with non-standard Chinese ID3 Tags when the issue will be garbled
* Fixed when looking at e-books will click into the touch screen but the problem of automatic sleep
* Amendments to the screen after the system hang may occur on the problem of blur
* Close the browser’s address bar, complete function, so as not to affect entry address
* Will be built Sonata as music player, in addition to built-in player audacious
* In addition to the mouse pointer (by modifying the configuration files can be resumed)
that is not the normal mer user interface, it’s an
experimental one – the reason why it seems “slow” is because there
was a bug with finger usage. It is actually in practice very fast.
these’re only for test ,Mer project don’t take any responsibility for any broken of device.
please only test on vmware,this version are not for smartq5
next monday they will release v0.13 for Q5
Mer v0.12 for Nokia N8×0,JFFS2
Video:v0.12
Video:v0.11
Call for developer participation
There will be a Maemo/Mozilla hackfest in Copenhagen (Mozilla Maemo Danish Weekend), Saturday-Sunday 30-31 May 2009 (with party Friday 29 May), where Mer is one of the focus areas as well. As it is a hackfest the focus will be more on coding than on presentations. From Mer project so far Stskeeps will be attending.
If you have the time and ability to show up (there might be an option of sponsorship) and ability to push some code or artwork or other things through and help out – do show up, it’ll be a blast and will bring us closer to Mer 1.0. We hope to establish a IRC presence as well if you want to contribute remotely.
Focus area from Mer project point of view will be a weekend focused on getting Mer ready for day-to-day usage (1.0), both logistically (repositories, restricted builders, etc) and user interface (control panels, getting audio to work on N8×0, and so forth).
Notable accomplishments and news
Claudius Henrichs will be heading up the localization area.
David Greaves/lbt is now in charge of Builders & development tools component.
We will be switching to alternate repositories soon, as we are integrating with OpenSUSE Build Service. This means no more stuff will go into repository.mer.tspre.org post-0.12.
Sound support, but requires closed blobs, and someone needs to step up and code a DSP protocol driver for PulseAudio (source code for protocol open)
Battery monitor (tablet-battery-monitor), requires closed blobs (installs them itself)
galculator ported
BlueMan ported – which means tethering, DUN, PAN, and a lot of interesting things
Hildon desktop when dying, now shows a dialog box that it died.
Drag lock fixed
large-statusbar-clock
Several fixes to Panels.
set kernel.core-pattern to something sane consistent across platforms (/var/cores)
Pocket Loox 720 port now has some additional things to make it usable (such as working touchscreen)
More work on Freerunner port
Launchpad refused our l10n’s, cos Nokia uses tana_fi_internet instead of english strings, and hence we’ll work with maemo.org and Transifex.
Alternate theme by Meizirkki: hildon-theme-sumea-mer
We actually use maemo-launcher now so a lot of things should use less memory and work better. 770 port should be more usable too.
Some claim Mer has quite good battery life on N8×0 now.
Mer is now officially Scratchbox-free, thanks to impressive work on QEMU by ScriptRipper
Known issues
home applets behave oddly when in non-800×480
Screen should not dim and turn off during first boot wizard
Magic X menu stretches too far, before adding v ^ buttons.
X driver for omapfb does not use Manual updates yet and hence can be a bit slow in updating the screen which may give the impression the system is slow.
Rotation in advanced-backlight kills hildon desktop
No charging screen on flashable image
modifying panel settings causes HD to sometimes crash
770 rescue menu does not seem to work (keys doesn’t work)
770 doesn’t pick up correct RTC, or it doesn’t have it set
Control panel may appear to have no menu but it actually doesn’t have one.
X-Terminal is not localized yet, at all (shows webameedit, etc)
The task switcher does not appear rightmost as it should
There seems to be a bit of “air” around windows, near left and right corners, also in marquee.
Marquee background acts weird.
JFFS2 version of N8×0 port causes weird video problem when rebooting.
Midori has no HIM in text fields.
Powerlaunch not working correctly while charger plugged in, no reaction while pressing power-button, no keyboard backlight
Advanced-backlight crashes hildon-desktop while charger plugged (might be tablet-battery-monitor related)
Marquee-panel doesn’t scale when rotating the screen.
Deselecting dropdown menu plugin crashes desktop
Powerlaunch button prompts not correct (no “Yes” “No”)
Applications “Organise” dialog unresponsive
Disclaimer
There is no warranty. This may blow up your MMC, steal your wife or cause doomsday to come around. But if you find some bugs, please report them on bugs.maemo.org Bugzilla and we’ll try to see what we can do to fix the bug causing it.
If anything goes wrong, grab a USB cable, and rescue mode is done through holding down Home key when booting Mer (on tablets)
– the reason why it seems “slow” is because there