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Qtopia - 4.2.1 Release Notes

• Introduction
• Enhancements
• Optimizations
• Bug Fixes
• Known Issues

Introduction

The Qtopia 4.2.1 release is a maintenance release of Qtopia that is based on Qt 4.2 technology. This release provides a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, both general and Greenphone-specific.

Enhancements

1. Bluetooth Bluetooth support is provided in this release only as a technology preview. When building Qtopia, Bluetooth is disabled by default, but may be enabled by specifying the -bluetooth configure switch.
   • Bluetooth audio now functions on the Greenphone.
2. Calendar
   • Google Calendar data can be synced to Qtopia.
   • Calendar can now be set to show either month or day view by default.
   • Calendar can now filter events by category.
3. Clock
   • Date and Time can now be set from the Clock application.
4. Look and Feel
   • A number of widgets have been enhanced to provide a clearer indication of whether the widget is in navigation mode or editing mode. In some cases, transitioning between these modes has also been streamlined.
5. Server
   • Server Widgets for the Home Screen and Launcher may be replaced with custom widgets. In a standard Qtopia build, a demonstration of this feature can be accessed via the Settings->Server Widgets application.
   • Server Tasks provide a more extensible mechanism to control what and how the Qtopia server process starts. System integrators can register blocks of functionality - "tasks" - that the Qtopia server will automatically manage and run.
6. Telephony
   • The level of GCF compliance has been significantly improved.

Optimizations

1. Build System: Reduced installed Qtopia footprint by avoiding installation of non-scalable images when scalable versions are available.
2. Contacts: Improved performance of importing from SIM card.
3. Data Linking: Don't use (relatively expensive) rich text when not necessary.
4. Data Linking: Improved performance of link verification.
5. Launching: configure now provides a -force-quicklaunch switch to make all applications use the quicklauncher. This option improves launch speed for some applications at the cost of larger binary size.
6. Painting: Improved performance on 16bpp displays by not using 32bpp background brushes and pixmaps.
7. Painting: Improved performance by eliminating several instances of unnecessary painting.
8. PIM: Improved performance of SQL access by moving database initialization to the quicklauncher and caching the most common queries.

Bug Fixes

1. Appearance
   • BUG 142124: Using the Clear Image option would prevent the user from setting another wallpaper without restarting the application.
   • BUG 142125: Allow an image on removable storage to be set as the system wallpaper.
   • BUG 142157: Appearance changes were not discarded when application was cancelled.
   • BUG 142574: If the theme selection was changed, the original theme could not be reselected without restarting the Appearance application.
2. Beaming
   • BUG 112713: Warn the user when trying to receive a file larger than the available storage space.
   • BUG 124376: Buttons on the IrDA receive screen were painted offscreen.
3. Bluetooth
   • BUG 138489: Device's supported services list was duplicated every time it was viewed.
   • BUG 139461: Remote devices were not shown if their names could not be retrieved.
   • BUG 139828: Bluetooth settings application was not displayed correctly in right-to-left languages.
   • BUG 143667: Setting security options was failing.
   • BUG 146899: Fix crash in Accept File dialog when underlying comms connection is lost.
   • BUG 146916: Do not ask for PIN for services that are not authenticated/encrpyted.
4. Build System
   • BUG 140686: Top-level 'make install' is now the same as 'make cleaninstall' - any previous image directory is deleted first to avoid stale files appearing in the build image.
   • BUG 142763: Bluetooth was silently dropped from singleexec builds.
   • BUG 142925: Bluetooth was silently dropped from the build if -dbus configure switch was omitted. This flag is now automatically specified if -bluetooth is specified.
5. Calendar
   • BUG 112431: Repetition data was omitted from display of event details.
   • BUG 134223: Select key now creates a new event if there is none selected.
   • BUG 142418: Day names were not displayed correctly when creating links to calendar events.
   • BUG 142942: Alarms were not being raised.
6. Call Options
   • BUG 138101: Language could not be set for cell broadcasts.
7. Camera
   • BUG 123577: Move To Contacts function showed SIM card contacts (which cannot have an associated image).
8. Categories
   • BUG 126526: Categories were being marked global after editing.
   • BUG 142119: Hangup key was ignored in Select Category dialog.
   • BUG 142120: Select Category dialog would not scroll when controlled by keypad.
9. Clock
   • BUG 138752: Stopwatch could not be reset via keypad.
   • BUG 139495: Activating Help in Alarm Clock or Stopwatch mode switched back to Clock mode.
10. Contacts
    • BUG 123692: Keypad could not be used to scroll to the end of a long contact details listing.
    • BUG 139020: After editing a contact, the notes field (including any data links) was not shown on the Contact Details screen.
11. Data Linking
    • BUG 122381: Could not view links to contacts stored on SIM card.
12. Dialer
    • BUG 113103: While keylocked, any string of digits belonging to emergency numbers could be dialed, rather than just the specific emergency numbers.
    • BUG 142618: Pressing the hangup key while a call was in progress would not hangup the call if the soft menu was visible.
13. Greenphone
    • BUG 133190: Device did not charge when powered off.
    • BUG 135381: Updatedevice program no longer erases the user's documents.
    • BUG 141729: Touchscreen backlight would activate if screen was touched while locked.
    • BUG 142112: Verify that the flash image is readable and will fit on the device prior to attempting to flash an image from the miniSD card.
    • BUG 142943: Auto keylock function was not working.
    • BUG 144707: Improve handwriting recognition by using rolling average filter in touchscreen driver.
    • BUG 147431: Device would immediately suspend after every second wakeup.
    • BUG 148411: Shutdown application was launched when the hangup key was used to wake device from suspend mode.
    • BUG 148445: Fixed server crash on some occasions when miniSD card is inserted.
    • BUG 149029: Bluetooth settings were not preserved over a reboot.
14. Input Methods
    • BUG 123403: Input from the last key pressed was being ignored after changing input modes.
    • BUG 123700: Cursor was being hidden on backspace in predictive mode.
    • BUG 136916: Changing dictionaries after entering words didn't do anything.
15. Internet
    • BUG 112311: Prevent duplicated names for network interfaces of the same type.
    • BUG 138298: Error dialog for missing dial-up number was shown on wrong screen.
16. Look and Feel
    • BUG 143220: Text was not wrapped correctly in message boxes.
    • BUG 144539: Activating the soft menu no longer affects edit focus.
    • BUG 147558: Correct some problems with positioning of message boxes.
17. Media Player
    • BUG 123846: Media Player was not disabling "Back to Homescreen" feature while playing video.
    • BUG 142126: Touchscreen "throttle" control could appear unresponsive.
    • BUG 142755: If video playback was paused due to an incoming call, playback would not resume after the call ended.
    • BUG 143218: Playlists were not executed automatically after creation.
    • BUG 144221: Track order in playlist was incorrect when queueing from any sub-menu other than the track listing.
18. Messages
    • BUG 127696: In touchscreen mode, exiting a folder view would exit the Messages application also.
    • BUG 127900: User was not being notified when messages were saved to drafts due to destination not having been entered.
    • BUG 138077: If "read later" was selected for a received MMS message, no read report was sent when the message was eventually read.
    • BUG 139841: Font was too large when viewing email messages as plain-text.
    • BUG 139928: UTF-8 characters were shown as Latin1 when displaying SMS messages.
    • BUG 140807: The user was notified twice when a new MMS message was received.
    • BUG 141705: Long messages were intermittently cropped when displayed.
    • BUG 142357, 142553: The wrong message would occasionally be shown when a new SMS was received and the SIM was almost full.
    • BUG 142760: If the currently viewed message was deleted, the soft menu would not activate without backing out to the folder view.
    • BUG 147721: Some messages were downloaded from IMAP accounts more than once.
19. Ringtones
    • BUG 141559: Vibration would not stop at end of ringtone when set to Ring Once.
20. Server
    • BUG 134404: Screenlock functionality was incorrectly disabled when PrimaryInput=Touchscreen.
    • BUG 136295: Hangup key would not return to Home Screen when a drop-down list had focus in an application.
    • BUG 141054: Console applications were sometimes marked as crashed due to race conditions.
    • BUG 141542: Sliding effect in launcher grid did not show icon when sliding from left to middle column.
    • BUG 141729: On combined keypad/touchscreen devices, suspend/resume touchscreen input when locking/unlocking the device.
    • BUG 142618: Ensure that when a window is closed, any visible soft menu is also closed.
    • BUG 143210: Applications menu icon was lost after installing any packages.
    • BUG 147285: Eliminate memory leak in evaluation of battery charger status that could eventually lead to performance degradation.
    • BUG 148960: Eliminate segment fault on server shutdown.
21. SIM Toolkit
    • BUG 139938: UTF-8 characters were shown as Latin1 when displaying application names.
22. Software Packages
    • BUG 112821: Temporary directory used during package installation was not being deleted afterwards.
    • BUG 142559: Software Packages application would crash if the right-arrow key was pressed when no package was selected.
23. Tasks
    • BUG 112503: Closing the task priority drop-down list without changing the value would change it to 1.
    • BUG 119596: Completed task could not be changed to In Progress via the summary list.
    • BUG 138087, 140061: Retain the current selection when editing a task, and show correct soft-menubar options.
    • BUG 138754: Category drop-down list was completely transparent, making it very difficult to read.
24. Themes
    • BUG 142573: Some fonts were too big in the Crisp theme.
25. VoIP
    • BUG 112887: Display contact name when explicit VoIP URI is entered in dialer.

Known Issues

1. Call Options:
   • BUG 138102: Phone numbers cannot be added to the Fixed Dialing list.
2. Contacts:
   • BUG 124220: Contacts does not prevent the same vCard being imported more than once.
3. Greenphone:
   • BUG 141228: Media Player doesn't respond to volume adjustment.
4. Media Player:
   • BUG 141498: Media Player takes too long to resume playing video when foregrounded after being backgrounded.
   • BUG 141499: Media Player does not disable power management while playing video.
   • BUG 142554: After a call ends, Media Player incorrectly resumes playback of media file if the file was paused when the call was received.
   • BUG 149521: Seek function is not sufficiently responsive when playing video on devices.
5. Messages:
   • BUG 120160: Messages doesn't start/stop network when fetching mail.
   • BUG 123694: Outgoing messages are saved in Drafts instead of Outbox in Airplane Safe Mode.
   • BUG 139837: Messages refuses to process attachments larger than 2Mb.
   • BUG 140806: The user is not audibly notified when an MMS message is received.
   • BUG 142744: MMS audio doesn't play to completion if the audio track is longer than the slideshow.
   • BUG 148423: MMS messages saved to drafts cannot be subsequently edited.
6. Pictures:
   • BUG 142355: Pictures crashes if launched from Documents with a large image file.
7. Rotation:
   • BUG 147437: Application windows receive unrotated geometry when using transformed driver.
8. Server:
   • BUG 123850: Files with Chinese names are only presented (and used) properly if the LANG environment variable is set prior to starting Qtopia Server to any language ending with .UTF8, for example: 'export LANG=<yourlanguage>.UTF8'.
   • BUG 135563: Softkey Menu does not become scrollable when too big for the screen.
   • BUG 113144: Qtopia Server asserts if a directory that the DocAPI is scanning is removed.
9. Touchscreen:
   • Cannot access some controls on Touchscreen Phone
10. Words:
    • Input widgets do not emit textChanged messages in response to changes in composing text.