Qtopia - 2.2.0 Release Notes
Introduction
The Qtopia 2.2.0 release is a minor release and includes the Qtopia Core, PDA, Phone and Refboard Editions.
Enhancements
- Voice Over IP (VoIP) using SIP
- SMTP authentication using SSL and TLS
- 18bpp LCD support
- Animated GUI
- Live MP3 (SHOUTcast)
- Transparency support
- Dual Display support
- openssl-0.9.7e added to 3rdparty libraries
- Translations are available for US-English, GB-English, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese/Brazilian, Spanish, French and Italian
- Language-specific icon support
- New packaging structure:
- single package containing Qt, Qtopia and TMake
- improved build process
- improved start script
- release and debug ARM builds included in SDK packages
- improved support for singleexec builds
- Major update of documentation:
- improved documentation structure
- functional specifications added to documentation
- Qt documentation integrated into Qtopia documentation
- documentation is edition-specific (Phone, PDA, etc)
- significant re-write of large parts of the documentation
Optimizations
- Cleaned up a range of source code warnings.
- Optimized code for internationalization.
- Improved performance for mediaplayer.
- Improved startup time of qss, making it available almost immediately after system startup.
- Moved timings for press and hold behavior as well as for multi-tap timeout into default buttons configuration file.
Bug fixes
- Fixed internal and external dialup mode support for GPRS modems.
- Improved Phone error handling for situations such as SMS store full
- Included an RPath when building Qtopia Desktop so that it no longer requires an LD_LIBRARY_PATH at run time
- Allow number entry dialog in qtmail to return an empty number list
- Handle mime content-type fields in qtmail with multiple parameter entries
- Fixed missing download option for large emails
- Improve handling of IMAP servers
- Fixed the crash when sending SMS vCard (BUG 4589).
- Fixed sending vCard via SMS to Symbian phones didn't work (BUG 4576).
- Fixed the intermittent crash when a qstring attempts to delete memory already deleted by a byte array (BUG 4601).
- Prevent a work cell number from being saved as both a work phone and a work cell (BUG 4561).
- Improved display functionality of missed calls (BUG 4402).
- Improved presentation of network server Online status (BUG 89728).
- Allow editing when clicking an edit entry field (BUG 4579).
- Fixed processing of SCKL headers on SMS messages, to correctly receive vCards from Symbian phones (BUG 4576).
- Improved menu positioning (BUG 4578).
- Improved lazy dlopen calls made by launched processes (BUG 89590).
- Interpret all Help files as UTF8 (BUG 86513).
- Removed functionality to disable a plug-in after it crashed. A better solution will be implemented in Qtopia 4 (BUG 4560).
- Fixed presentation of missed call information (BUG 4402).
- Fixed audio video/synchronization by setting the audio driver buffer size (BUG 4486).
- Fixed presentation of a window frame not appearing in landscape (BUG 4566).
- Fixed parsing of STK address tags.
- Improved package installer and correctly present available packages (BUG 1438).
- Fixed the crash when receiving a file via IR and /tmp is on an unfamiliar device node (BUG 4549).
- Improved initialization of system volume at qss startup (BUG 86874).
- Fixed underlining of matching search names in PDA addressbook (BUG 4489).
- Fixed the QPE server crash when dialing/selecting a number in the call history (BUG 4542).
- Entering MMS number now defaults to text entry input method instead of phone number (BUG 4538).
- Fixed the OK Button in the send contact dialog (it did nothing) (BUG 4533).
- Deleting a voice note without restarting the device no longer leaves behind a link in the documents tab (BUG 4462).
- Ensure that dial history is looking at SIM for contact names (BUG 4526).
- Added an option to override default max brightness for backlight on device (BUG 87159).
- Ensure that the Info group is selected when the Id key is read after the current configuration group changed (BUG 86081).
- Ensure that input methods are flushed before clearing documents in the Notes application (BUG 4132).
- Added video/3gpp mime-type (BUG 4527).
- Ensure signal strength is updated immediately after changing themes (BUG 4519).
- Allow PDA Edition to set the volume through QSS instead of modifying /dev/mixer (BUG 86874).
- Email address entry dialog in QtMail defaulted to number entry, and made it difficult to enter text (BUG 4508).
- Beaming vCard, events, and todos from a Palm to Qtopia with special characters caused them to either not open, or open with the special characters unrecognized (BUG 1041).
- Ensure themes are reloaded correctly and applied for Call Screen (BUG 4500).
- Improved Secure key locking by adding security code for locking the phone (BUG 4331).
- Fixed a GUI thread freeze on 2.6 kernels by removing an unnecessary mutex lock (BUG 4497).
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- Allow simapp to be closed if the main menu has not been seen, to handle the problem where a dial is pending and the STK response is delayed (BUG 4380).
- Fixed Worldtime zoom-in functionality (BUG 4495).
- Removed the redundant Quality setting in the mediarecorder if the screen is too small to hold it. The quality can still be changed from the Options/Settings menu item (BUG 4494).
- Contacts application wasn't changing displayed categories when the user moved a contact from one category to another, which was causing strange behavior (BUG 3755).
- Prevent continual main menu timeout/reloads after simapp has exited (BUG 4209).
- The Addressbook Send vCard option was giving the user the wrong options for sending method (BUG 4487).
- Fixed inconsistent menu entries in Call History (BUG 4484).
- Improved file copy operation and prevent presentation of invalid file links in case of copy failures (BUG 1732).
- Fixed access to call history context menu items in touch screen phone (BUG 4173).
- Modified definitions of ruled lines to make them visible on all displays (BUG 4428).
- Ensure that a rejected MMS is removed from the system (and not placed in the trash) (BUG 4122).
- Improved counting of new messages by resetting the count when a message is read (rather than whenever qtmail is run) (BUG 4482).
- Improved warning dialog when receiving a file too large via IR on a keypad phone (BUG 4476).
- QDL source dialog now functions reliably for PDAs (BUG 4479).
- Fix presentation of background image on Call Screen (BUG 4472).
- Setting a SIM contact as the user's business card did not work correctly (BUG 2988).
- Fixed battery charge icon display (BUG 4471).
- Fixed ordering of matched contacts in QuickDial (and many other things reliant on ContactFieldList) (BUG 4470).
- Prevent the creation of phantom SIM card in the main phone book (BUG 4268).
- Show the correct user name when calling a SIM contact (BUG 4450).
- Clicking on a call history item with no associated contact caused a crash (BUG 4455).
- Make sure the theme cache is regenerated if the phone type is changed between keypad and touchscreen (BUG 4449).
- Qtopia Desktop addressbook application updates the current item view in the bottom pane while the user is searching (BUG 4433).
- Ensure that Qtopia Desktop always uses a valid time-zone.
- Improved saving of settings changes to the local repository (BUG 4008).
- Added user notification when the SMS store is full.
- Improved quality of large contact images displayed in Contacts by storing both a thumbnail size and a full size image for the contact (BUG 4426).
- Fixed ThemeCache scrollbar problems.
- Improved full screen handwriting (BUG 4186).
- Synchronized the PDA clock to the Qtopia Desktop clock.
Known problems
- Media filesystems limited to 8.3 filenames are problematic due to .desktop files.
- MMS AMR recordings are cut short (with 0.5 sec) when playing back.
- Typed numbers are deleted off the screen too quickly during a call.
- QVFB doesn't gracefully handle a skin directory with missing contents.
- Messages sometimes crashes when sending large attachments ( > 1.5MB ).
- Messages does not gracefully handle out of storage situations.
- Calling an unavailable VoIP contact does not display any message to say they are not connected.
- On Phone edition, there is no way to set system volume besides using the mediaplayer and no way to set the input volume at all.
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