Via: @IML337
The inclusion of the Swype input method in Harmattan PR1.1 gives a more traditional alternative to the touch-and-hold, iOS-style magnifying class for positioning the text caret. "IML337" wrote on Twitter: It DOES have arrow keys on the vkbd, thanks to swype! Enable Swype [under Text & Language in Settings]. Go into edit mode (hold on the swype key, and swipe to the next key to the right) and voila!
Editor: Ryan Abel
Nokia has released an update for N950 devices which brings its software more closely in-line with the PR1.1 release of Harmattan for the N9. We covered the plans for this last week, but the update finally hit Wednesday. Highlights include: Application close by swiping from top to bottom is now always on, improved memory handling to boost application startup and overall performance, multilanguage keyboard and support for Swype, support for Chinese language (separate variant), added plugin support for Google, Picasa, Flickr and YouTube, number of small UI tweaks e.g status bar notification icon updates, number of bug fixes and changes have been implemented, Galaxy on Fire application has been added, need for Speed Shift application has bee added, and Widgets Gallery and QT Quick components gallery application have been removed. Many users have had issues with the update, beginning with Nokia's usual network-related issues for new updates and continuing with seeming package-management problems (which are difficult to resolve given the lack of detail in Harmattan's error messages). A flasher image isn't yet available.
Via: @Jaffa2
Editor: Andrew Olmsted
Jukka announced on the MeeGo Handset mailing list the availability of the Autumn release of the MeeGo Community Edition (CE) for the N950. I am happy to announce all needed is now available to work with Community Edition Fall release on a N950. See:http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N950. Thanks for everybody involved and for the patience, we had somewhat a long last mile with this one. It looks like this is the last release that will be named "MeeGo Community Edition." Going forward we will see Nemo releases.
Via: @Jaffa2
Editor: Andrew Olmsted
Valério Valério has started a talk.maemo.org thread to provide assistance and clarification on issues users may be having with email and Mail for Exchange on the N9. now that the N9 is shipping, in the good open source spirit, we are looking for constructive feedback on the email and mail for exchange clients, please post here any problems, annoying behavior or suggestions that you might have. Valério has been helping a lot of people and letting users know what they can expect to see fixed in upcoming releases.
Via: @Jaffa2
Editor: Andrew Olmsted
In a similar vane to the MfE story above, "abustany" has started a thread at talk.maemo.org to discuss bugs and possible enhancements to the contacts and messaging applications for Harmattan. Feature requests are accepted too, but we now have limited resources on Nokia side to implement them... The good thing? All our middleware is open source! Which means you can too contribute the features you'd like to see. There has been good response in the thread and the creator is quite active in responding to questions and comments.