Visitors to Maemo.org can now see a new Wiki tab, which takes you here. The Wiki features some frequently asked questions about Maemo and Nokia 770 and Application Catalog.
See a screenshot (and read the text, if you know Portuguese) of PyGame running on Nokia 770.
New Python packages for Maemo became available. From developers:
- Our packages are now marked as indt release like python2.4-2.4.1-2indt4
- Python optimized modules (.pyo) are now inserted in one Zip file (/usr/lib/python24.lib) to squeeze size.
- Python readable modules (.py) are now in a sub package.
- PyGTK is now working with ATK.
- First release of Python bindings for Hildon.
- Small fixes in PyGTK and PyGame packages.
New HOWTO posted on Maemo.org:
To allow the Application Installer to install your application, you need to create a .deb package that follows certain conventions. This HOWTO explains these conventions and offers a example package that you could use as the base for your own packages. This text assumes some familarity with building .deb packages, but you should be able to pick up the basic things from looking at the example package.
An Eclipse plug-in for Scratchbox environment is being developed:
Our plan so far is to create a new eclipse plugin which uses Scratchbox. Communication between eclipse and scratchbox is mainly handled with shell-commands. This plugin makes it possible to use Scratchbox without familiarizing oneself with Scratchbox. The main idea is that user can cross-compile programs to ARM-binaries. User will be able to run and debug programs, which use X-window or X-window with Maemo environment. The programs will be inserted inside Scratchbox, so our plugin makes it possible to create, edit, run and debug your applications from Eclipse. This makes much easier to develop your own progams for e.g. Nokia 770 Internet tablet.
Eclipse development environment has both Linux and Windows downloads.
The address www.wiki770.org seems to work now and actually takes you here. It’s a documentation project for Nokia 770 Maemo development.
Florian Boor from KernelConcepts announced some updates to the OpenEmbedded build system for Maemo:
OpenEmbedded now includes support for the Nokia 770 hardware platform. This means that you can create filesystem images for this hardware platform featuring various pieces of software. The quality of these images depends on the hardware support for the Nokia 770 platform of the selected software package. Apart from Maemo images you can build build images with the GPE software environment which has basic support for the 770 (target: gpe-image). The Maemo image is intended to become a full-featured development image for the Nokia 770 Maemo environment. In theory you can build this image for other hardware platforms, but currently the 770 is the only supported one.
Roger Spelberg from Teleread published a tutorial on making e-books for Nokia 770. His tutorial refers to the Maemo Live CD available from Mattias Schenkler.
Olli Salli from Nokia presented an official response of dealing with the slowness issues that quite a few of reviewers mentioned:
The OMAP platform comes with a TI CMS320C55x DSP, that handles the decoding of multimedia and some drawing too. It can be used pretty flexibly. Also, the software will probably get optimized a lot more than it currently is, so everything should be faster by the time the device ships.
This is definitely one of the strongest selling points for the device, if only they would have a picture of an e-book reader with great fonts and clarity running on Nokia 770. But so far TeleRead provides Maemo screenshots of Plucker running in full screen mode. See this screenshot to get an idea of the look and feel.
