Canola2 beta one is online =)
Hello everyone!
So we made it! If you have one of the following supported distros on your devices you can already install it quite easy going to the website and hitting install now. Just make sure you unninstall canola1, if possible reboot (to get rid of the canola scanner) and you ready to go.
While we do want to receive as many bugs (send them there) and suggestions / critics etc, I can already say some of the things that we know already, or wasn’t implemented because of time, and it’s already on the todo list:
- Scrolling sometimes “stick” when I click too close to the right border of the screen.
- yes, indeed we placed a ” scrollbar ” like area there to allow you to scroll faster on bigger lists but unfortunately the device cannot handle pretty fast animation so theres no visual clue what’s happening. I found myself thinkting that this was a bug, when I realized that gustavo made it and I asked him to increase the area.
- Solution: for now trying scrolling a little bit more to the center of the screen.
- First touch on main icon is slow to start the animation. Yes, We are hard working on this, as this is quite the first impressions. Just because too much things are being loaded in first use. After that is quite the speed we want.
- We will fix it =) don’t worry.
- Scrolling sometimes looks ” locked ” : actually you’ve reached some of the limits, and there’s no visual indication of that happening (actually there is… the scrollbar but it’s easily missed)
- So we are going to implement some kind of bump (unfortunately) to show off that you’ve reached
- There’s no 770 support YET. Sorry, 770 demanded a lot more work, but we are working on it and it will be supported. HE is ” theorically” a BORA distro, but we don’t want to mess if your device so.. please allows more time to test and make sure we are not going to screw your precious installation
- The way we wanted to support the hardware keys are not yet implemented so also hold on on this one ( I’ve posted about it before)
So, there’s a lot of rough edges to polish and we promise that we will be working hard on this (of course after the parties) and the final release will be as complete as we promised.
We really need your feedback this time, and we count on you.
no 770… snifff.. eu quero! :’(
Oh well… good work you guys… the site for the canola2 looks great… =)
i’ll just have to wait for the OS2006 version…
good debugging!
December 20th, 2007 at 4:31 amHi Marcelo,
is the albun cover working in this beta? and if it is, how it works?
December 20th, 2007 at 4:37 amHi!
December 20th, 2007 at 4:47 amThank you very much for this first release! It is definitely a must have for all NIT users!
After a quick test, the only things I’ve noticed is that it is a bit slow on my N800 (but I haven’t rebooted for long, so…) and (sometime) first ‘click’ on menu options is not taken into account.
… but I love what I’ve seen anyway ;-)
Hi Marcelo,
It is an excellent release. Seriously. I like it. Just a couple of things:
Video don’t read audios that are in the folder choosen. That makes you unable to diferentiate between Music and other kind of audios (radio programs, audio books, podcasts,…)
Most important: Covers are not working because there is no way to automatically download them. Am I right? Can we put a cover-1.jpg into a directory to make covers work?
December 20th, 2007 at 5:01 amWhat about the progress of open sourcing Canola? Once I read on the website “will be GPL’ed/opensource’d in future”. Now I cannot even find this anymore, maybe I’m just blind.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:06 amI wouldn’t say “you can already install it quite easy going to the website and hitting install now” as the download speed is very sloooooooooooooooooooooooooow…it’s taking ages to download Canola2 Beta itself + ages to refresh maemo repositories…
I can’t believe all the tablet users can generate so much traffic at once.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:45 am[...] Oliveira (aka handful) has identified some features that are not working and some that needs polishing. It would be great if we can send [...]
December 20th, 2007 at 7:30 amI tried to download it to test but all I got was that the package is broken. I’m running latest os2008 on n800. Any idea what this can be?
December 21st, 2007 at 2:39 pmYou need to disable all catalogs and only keep
http://repostory.maemo.org/extras/
chinook
free non-free
(Yes, with the spelling mistake in ‘repository’)
I cannot see anymore the ’shared audio” option in this new version? Am I missing something?
December 24th, 2007 at 5:28 pm