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« Reply #45 on: December 09, 2004, 04:54:00 pm »
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Firstly kudos to Trolltech for carrying on the great work they have done I see on the screenshots that the Qtopia PDA edition Settings tab has "Call Forwarding" and "Call options" settings. How is that so ? Does the PDA version support voice calls and forwarding and all that ?

There is another screenshot of a Settings Tab, where its in a list format and the last entry is "A-Z Words" ? Is that some Dictionary setting or what does it refer to ?
Call Forwarding and Call Options are not part of Qtopia PDA, that screenshot needs to be updated.

The Words app is used for the handwriting recognition, so you can add/edit words in the dictionary.
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« Reply #46 on: December 09, 2004, 04:59:13 pm »
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1) Will the ROM include a "notes" app?
2) Will the new Qtopia Desktop be able to sync e-mail (w/ attachments) and notes (if they're included)?
3) Will the Outlook connectors be able to sync all these things too?  (calendar, address, to-do, notes, e-mail)?
4) Will there by any new connectors included? (I'd love to see connectors for KDE apps)
1 - yes. The texteditor has become "Notes" if thats what you mean.
2 - The current version of QD does not support emails.
3 - Yes and no. No emails. But I believe Documents can be handled (not sure if its 'synced'), and you can install application from your desktop, or a feed you specify in QD.
4 - Not at this time. Qtopia Desktop is getting a rewrite for Qtopia 4/Qte4, thus enabling better support for 3rd party import/export plugins.
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« Reply #47 on: December 09, 2004, 06:20:10 pm »
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- option to disable auto-suspend and shutoff when a give process is running (so it won't turn off when you use the media player, etc)
That's been in Qtopia for ages. Even the Sharp ROMs have that.
In the GUI? Where?
The only solution I know of is via a third party applet. (qpe-suspendapplet)
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« Reply #48 on: December 09, 2004, 07:09:46 pm »
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In the GUI? Where?
The only solution I know of is via a third party applet. (qpe-suspendapplet)
Not as a graphical button per se, but it is a QCOP command and that is how the 3rd party software does it. Media players, ebook readers, etc should also call this command and if they don't then the application is at fault.
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« Reply #49 on: December 09, 2004, 08:26:21 pm »
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In the GUI? Where?
The only solution I know of is via a third party applet. (qpe-suspendapplet)
Not as a graphical button per se, but it is a QCOP command and that is how the 3rd party software does it. Media players, ebook readers, etc should also call this command and if they don't then the application is at fault.
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« Reply #50 on: December 10, 2004, 01:59:25 am »
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Regarding Tumnus's list of questions, I am not too sure I would want a Today app on resume everytime. Better would be to link it to a hardware button and bring it on by choice. Just my preference though.
Under the Sharp 2.0 ROM, I used to have the Today app launch upon every resume, and, I agree, it got to be a bit much.  What I would like to see is an option to have it automatically display on resume after a period of time.  For example, display on resume if it has been at least 30 minutes since I last resumed.

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« Reply #51 on: December 13, 2004, 12:43:33 am »
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1) Do the special key work when logging in from remote (home/end/pgup/pgdown/delete) with SSH/telnet?
2) Very good news on the media player (ffmpeg). Have the playlist support and UI improved at all?
3) Too bad there's no BT, but oh well.
4) Is the TCP over USB now recognized as a connection (for browsers etc. They complain on the current ROMs)
5) Is there a Wifi manager (so you can auto-detect which network you're approaching and change settings accordingly, like on a Mac). Very handy for people with both work and home wifi setups, and those you like to connect at their coffee-shops.
6) Is there an ption to disable auto-suspend and shutoff when a given process is running (so it won't turn off when you use the media player, etc)
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2 - yes
3 - qtopia 4
4 - i believe this is a system thing, not qtopia.
5 - wifi is handled by the 'Internet' application
6 - mediaplayer disables suspend, anyway. You can disable suspend when on connected to network. Indivual applications can also disable suspend
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« Reply #52 on: December 13, 2004, 10:12:10 am »
Will there be a new version of qtopia desktop? The current 1.7.0 build for OS X has problems where dropdown lists show up several inches to the left and up from where they are on form elements.

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« Reply #53 on: December 13, 2004, 03:47:45 pm »
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Will there be a new version of qtopia desktop? The current 1.7.0 build for OS X has problems where dropdown lists show up several inches to the left and up from where they are on form elements.
Qtopia Desktop 2.1 will also be released.
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« Reply #54 on: December 14, 2004, 04:30:53 am »
This week or should we stay tuned?  

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« Reply #55 on: December 16, 2004, 01:05:04 am »
Thanks for all your answers, I can't wait to get my paws on this.
Too bad *some* functionality seems to be missing, but I guess it'll get there eventually.
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4 - i believe this is a system thing, not qtopia.
5 - wifi is handled by the 'Internet' application
6 - mediaplayer disables suspend, anyway. You can disable suspend when on connected to network. Indivual applications can also disable suspend
1 - You just don't know?  
4 - Well the connection setup might be a system issue, my question is more: Will it be possible to have the network applet recognise the TCPIP over USB link as valid connection? So that in turn, apps like netfront and opera can recognize it.
5 - But will it have automatic profiles? (pretty please?   ) Right now you can always make several profiles using the Network settings applet, but it doesn't detect which network it should use automatically.
Very nice info, thanks.

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« Reply #56 on: December 17, 2004, 09:48:53 am »
The real question is whether there will be a release this year, with dev groups packing up for the holidays.  Does Trolltech still intend to release this, this year?

If not the ROM howabout the source, that way us ubergeeks can create ROM's over the Christmas break.  

Anyways thanks for your work!!

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« Reply #57 on: December 17, 2004, 11:14:21 am »
More harassment:
1) Is there a general/functionality changelog available?
2) Any way to disable the sticky shift and ctrl feature? On the clamshells it's more of a hindrance.
3) Any improvements to the power settings applet, so you can turn off screensavers like you can the backlight dimming? A generally more extensive applet would be nice.
4) Are you interested in public bug-reporting on any unsupported ROMs? And if so what's the bug-reporting method?

More tidbits:
http://qpe.sourceforge.net/ the image hosted at www.sharpplace.com is dead.
http://qpe.sourceforge.net/sharp.html the image there is another image from the same site, also 404.

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« Reply #58 on: December 19, 2004, 12:21:37 pm »
There is only one thing that frigthen me for Qtopia 2.1:

For me Opie is for Qtopia the same kind of nighmare that Trolltech didn't want to see for Qt-X11. They were frighten that Qt-X11 could be forked as soon as it would be GPLed.

Qt-X11 haven't been forked because of the strong relationship with KDE. Opie came out as a fork of Qtopia because of Trolltech commercial agreament with Sharp.

Now, Opie is a dead horse. Nobody want to contribute to its code because of the way the last developpers (e.g. those one who are still in) continue to manage the project. Worse than this, those developpers are now waiting for new Qtopia 2.1 to copie the interesting part and to add it to their buggy fork. As Opie uses better ice candy and as it is released for OpenZaurus... it gets more attention than Qtopia.

Well guys... continue your figthing. If you feel good with this, well... I like this because I'm learning how open source projects can be killed with good strategy.

Linux is not an US product nor a Russian product nor a Asian product. At first place, it's a European product without frontier. If you guys want to kill it because it will break your WindowsCE or PalmOS or SymbianOS sales than, well... good lucke in your fighting.

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« Reply #59 on: December 20, 2004, 02:04:48 pm »
If Opie is such a dead horse why are you frightened then? Just be happy about the forthcoming Qtopia 2.1 ROM and ignore all further Opie things  

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Nobody want to contribute to its code because of the way the last developpers (e.g. those one who are still in) continue to manage the project.
Would you dare to elaborate on that?
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