Maemo Bug Jar #22

A Quick Look at maemo Bugzilla
2008-09-08 through 2008-09-14

As of 2008-09-15 maemo Bugzilla contains 2681 (+20 this week) items,
including 1089 open issues (+23 this week):

• 699 open bugs (+18 this week)
• 16 critical/blocker (+1 this week)
• 18 "easyfix" (no change this week)
• 148 "moreinfo" (+3 this week)
• 26 "crash" (no change this week)
• 19 "patch" (+1 this week)
• 14 reopened (+3 this week)
• 274 unconfirmed (+8 this week)
• 390 open enhancements (+5 this week)
• 12 "easyfix" (no change this week)
• 7 "moreinfo" (+1 this week)
• 8 "patch" (no change this week)
• 3 reopened (no change this week)
• 94 unconfirmed (no change this week)

Top Tens

Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes:

1. (12%) 2878 Very poor satellite acquisition with internal GPS
2. (5%) 2723 Pushing key once causes multiple repeats
3. (3%) 375 minimum backlight level is too bright at night
4. (3%) 2784 Screen taps or presses go to random locations, randomly
5. (2%) 1771 Bluetooth transfer speeds not really meeting Bluetooth 2.0 specs (+1 this week)
6. (2%) 2564 No consistency on scrolling/scrollbars in bundled OS2008 applications (-1 this week)
7. (2%) 2850 On screen keyboard dooesn't always realise that bluetooth keyboard has been connected or disconnected (+1 this week)
8. (2%) 2640 Can no longer pair bluetooth keyboard after upgrade to OS 2008 with restore (-1 this week)
9. (2%) 3357 Modest lingers in memory using 100% CPU
10. (2%) 1767 trying to connect to "localhost" while offline/disconnected triggers network search

Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes:

1. (11%) 176 Support for OGG Vorbis / Theora missing
2. (6%) 2639 Home View needs to have an option to lock widgets into place
3. (5%) 667 A2DP and AVRCP Bluetooth profile wanted
4. (4%) 1695 Provide "open link in background"
5. (3%) 303 Clock should allow configurable 12h/24h display
6. (3%) 368 USB mode selection on control panel
7. (3%) 1046 RFE: Power Management Profiles (AC/Battery, Timed, Environment and screen saver)
8. (3%) 1129 Media player doesn't save the timeposition on close
9. (3%) 1017 need 802.1X/PEAPv0/MS-CHAPv2 and/or 802.1X/EAP-TTLS/MS-CHAPv2
10. (2%) 417 WEP with 802.1x EAP PEAP not supported

Ten biggest open bugs by importance:

1. 3026 USB state hangs at b_idle on n810(won't allow mode change from sysfs)
2. 1842 Constant metalayer-crawler crashes & CPU usage with some VMA file(s)
3. 3357 Modest lingers in memory using 100% CPU
4. 3190 Show "Connection to one or more account lost" when re-invite
5. 3702 Diablo Rootstrap for MaemoSDK+ is Broken (new this week)
6. 3566 nokia-repositories package overwrites user settings and disables maemo.org Extras (-1 this week)
7. 2878 Very poor satellite acquisition with internal GPS (-1 this week)
8. 3378 Connection dialog presents only previous connections and doesn't scan (-1 this week)
9. 2004 Missing VCard response crashes IM app (-1 this week)
10. 3420 tinymail should not use g_atexit (-1 this week)

Ten biggest open enhancements by importance:

1. 151 Should be able to select home view feeds in "News Reader"
2. 166 Confusing selecting behaviour in browser
3. 167 Close>close window|close all windows and Window>New window/Message>Mew e-mail are confusing
4. 176 Support for OGG Vorbis / Theora missing
5. 217 Browser needs the "globe" icon (browser window selector) on the toolbar in full screen mode
6. 230 Network connection error message
7. 236 Number of entries in news applet should be configureable
8. 259 Two volume regulators are confusing sometimes
9. 262 Internet Radio displays annoying popups.
10. 264 Selection of Favourite in Audio applet should start immediately

Ten oldest open bugs:

1. 282 Flash remembers 'quality' setting in menu, but that setting is not in fact applied
2. 298 Hildon specific GTK extensions should default to be disabled
3. 304 Automatic proxy configuration file is not obeyed by news reader app
4. 327 Connectivity wizard and certificate selection
5. 339 browser needs internet connectivity for accessing localhost
6. 358 remote file type detection? passing urls to applications?
7. 360 HildonApps needlessly resize on map
8. 361 GtkCalendar widget size behaviour
9. 375 minimum backlight level is too bright at night
10. 437 It is not possible to build xserver-kdrive from http://repository.maemo.org (new this week)

Ten oldest open enhancements:

1. 148 Graphics app has only one step undo
2. 150 Audio player should have enqueue option
3. 151 Should be able to select home view feeds in "News Reader"
4. 166 Confusing selecting behaviour in browser
5. 167 Close>close window|close all windows and Window>New window/Message>Mew e-mail are confusing
6. 176 Support for OGG Vorbis / Theora missing
7. 217 Browser needs the "globe" icon (browser window selector) on the toolbar in full screen mode
8. 223 Maemo doesn't contain properly themed versions of Gtk stock icons
9. 229 Browser should support different font sizes for web pages
10. 230 Network connection error message

New Items

17 new bugs were opened:

• 3686 No newline when pressing 'Return' in X-terminal under scratchbox
• 3688 hildon_mime_open_file() doesn't open an image on first request
• 3689 E-Mail Notification doesen't work
• 3690 Sent note attachments use non-existing MIME type "text/note"
• 3693 avahi-daemon has unresolved dependencies
• 3698 osso-af-utils creates linking loops in /usr/share/icons and /usr/share/user-icons
• 3699 After installing libvte X Terminal cannot be started
• 3700 modest puts signature on top of mail in replies (forcing to top-post)
• 3701 DSA-1635-1 freetype -- multiple vulnerabilities
• 3702 Diablo Rootstrap for MaemoSDK+ is Broken
• 3703 Browserd Hangs at livejournal.com and Has to be Killed Manually
• 3704 Browserd Leaks Huge Chunks of Memory When Killed
• 3705 Browserd is a Problem Rather Than Solution and May Have To Be Keworked
• 3706 Modest shouldn't delete folders from the toolbar button
• 3707 Handwriting recogntion is too inaccurate to be usable
• 3708 WiFi draws excessive power when access point has multiple ESSIDs
• 3709 Problem: bluetooth keyboard fails to work with N800 running OS2008 (Diablo). Works under OS2007.

• 3706 Modest shouldn't delete folders from the toolbar button

3 new enhancements were opened:

• 3687 Only check for new mail when modest is running
• 3691 No option to load embedded images from server in HTML emails
• 3697 memory card fsck functionality in File Manager or Settings Pane

Closed Bugs

0 bugs were closed "fixed".

2 bugs were closed "invalid":

• 3693 avahi-daemon has unresolved dependencies
• 3705 Browserd is a Problem Rather Than Solution and May Have To Be Keworked

3 bugs were closed "wontfix":

• 828 unused packages marked as required
• 829 small changes to packages dependencies is necessary to make deboostrap work
• 833 please use #!/usr/bin/perl instead of #!/scratchbox/tools/bin/perl

0 bugs were closed "later".

0 bugs were closed "remind".

2 bugs were closed "duplicate":

• 3607 text/plain not showing in multipart/mixed emails
• 3709 Problem: bluetooth keyboard fails to work with N800 running OS2008 (Diablo). Works under OS2007.

0 bugs were closed "worksforme".

Closed Enhancements

1 bug was closed "fixed":

• 1051 Add "Scale with larger dimension" background mode

0 enhancements were closed "invalid".

0 enhancements were closed "wontfix".

0 enhancements were closed "later".

0 enhancements were closed "remind".

0 enhancements were closed "duplicate".

0 enhancements were closed "worksforme".

Confirmed Items

5 bugs were confirmed:

• 1959 CellRendererCombo default width isn't wide enough to show dropdown contents
• 3322 Unexpected focus switch to toolbar text field after using main menu
• 3607 text/plain not showing in multipart/mixed emails
• 3608 Messages sometimes silently fail to open when attempting to open them from the inbox
• 3705 Browserd is a Problem Rather Than Solution and May Have To Be Keworked

3 enhancements were confirmed:

• 3687 Only check for new mail when modest is running
• 3691 No option to load embedded images from server in HTML emails
• 3697 memory card fsck functionality in File Manager or Settings Pane

Reopened Items

8 bugs were reopened:

• 437 It is not possible to build xserver-kdrive from http://repository.maemo.org
• 619 Characters entered via a USB keyboard do not appear in some Maemo Apps
• 828 unused packages marked as required
• 829 small changes to packages dependencies is necessary to make deboostrap work
• 833 please use #!/usr/bin/perl instead of #!/scratchbox/tools/bin/perl
• 2171 pthread problems with qemu
• 3678 RSS feed list unreadable on black background (ignores DefaultTextColor)
• 3705 Browserd is a Problem Rather Than Solution and May Have To Be Keworked

3 enhancements were reopened:

• 463 Date format should be user defined
• 1051 Add "Scale with larger dimension" background mode
• 1623 Add FORTRAN support back into the SDKs

Keyworded Items

0 bugs were tagged "easyfix".

6 bugs were tagged "moreinfo":

• 437 It is not possible to build xserver-kdrive from http://repository.maemo.org
• 619 Characters entered via a USB keyboard do not appear in some Maemo Apps
• 2622 map 2.2.6.377-1 update does not install, being unsigned
• 3656 EAP-TLS not working
• 3668 modest retrieve only mail-headers with POP3
• 3699 After installing libvte X Terminal cannot be started

0 bugs were tagged "crash".

1 bug was tagged "patch":

• 3686 No newline when pressing 'Return' in X-terminal under scratchbox

0 enhancements were tagged "easyfix".

0 enhancements were tagged "moreinfo".

0 enhancements were tagged "patch".

This summary is also posted to the Maemo developers' list and Internet Tablet Talk.