Qtopia - 4.1.4 Release Notes

Bug Fixes

1. Appearance
   • BUG 123695: Fixed an issue with setting a background.
   • BUG 119135, 119136: Fixed redraw problem (i.e. title bar showing wrong information during switch to a new color scheme).
   • BUG 119744: Fixed mouse selections in Touchscreen mode.
   • BUG 119438: Prevent 'too many buttons' from showing up on message box.
2. Bluetooth
   • BUG 119745: Fixed a crash when selecting the Scanning list item twice.
3. Build System
   • qtopiamake -project now wraps qmake -project, creating a .pro file that Qtopia's build system can actually use.
4. Calendar
   • Improved user interface for exception dialogs.
   • BUG 117048: Delay validation (and auto adjustment) of time settings to avoid unexpected behavior.
5. Calibrate
   • Fixed a case where touch screen input focus could be lost
   • Make sure the user doesn't have to press the Hangup key twice to get back to the home screen.
6. Call Forwarding
   • BUG 123697: Make back button cancel call forwarding.
   • BUG 122104: If the current item is a phone number, select button will activate call forwarding to the number.
7. Call Networks
   • Ensure that the last remaining operator in preferred list can be deleted.
   • BUG 122722: Ensure that the operator list is saved in the preferred order after changes.
   • BUG 122109: Correctly show and allow to edit preferred operators
8. Contacts
   • BUG 117374: Allow contacts to be deleted or made "my card" immediately after being edited or created.
   • BUG 118274: Make sure that "Remove as My Card" is in the context menu when "My Card" is shown, and that the correct information is shown after selecting a card as "My Card".
   • BUG 117379: Allow saving of "non visible" fields in address book name field.
   • BUG 113072: Maximize usage of screen real estate when setting a contact image.
   • BUG 119593: Fixed filtering by multiple categories.
   • BUG 122269: Ensure that links stored on a SIM card can be viewed.
9. Date & Time
   • BUG 119919: Ensure that correct time is retained when time zone is changed.
10. Dialer
    • Fixed a (potential) crash with uninitialized variables.
    • BUG 123536: Fixed call dialog; Done should not call the contact.
    • BUG 123519: Fixed a crash when a user attempted to dial two numbers simultaneously.
    • BUG 117299: Double tapping on a incoming call did not answer the call, but instead the Answer Icon was hidden.
    • BUG 112873: Ensure that Dialer screen is updated immediately after a general theme has changed.
    • BUG 113286: Don't display the Input Method icon in the home screen (but rather the signal strength icon).
11. Documents
    • Ensure that a document is opened after clicking on it.
    • BUG 119663: Fixed presentation of document specific Icons.
    • BUG 119591: Retain category filter information between pop-ups of the category selector.
    • Fixed document detection from removable media
    • Improved performance by optimized scanning of objects
    • BUG 122570: Fixed presentation of Unfiled category.
    • Fixed an issue with directories/files/names with single quotes in them creating invalid SQL code.
12. Games
    • Snake game ported to Qtopia 4.x
13. InputMethods
    • BUG 123701: Fixed some issues with the Input Method Icon being shown (or not shown) at the wrong location.
    • BUG 122574: Fixed an input issue with D-pad not working on some devices.
    • BUG 113569: International Multitap Mode was missing a character select popup.
    • Fixed virtual keyboard functionality
    • BUG 118793: Correctly save dawg dictionary.
14. IrDa
    • BUG 119677: Properly save settings.
15. Language
    • Fixed a crash when a translation couldn't be found.
16. Light & Power
    • BUG 123852: Fixed a crash when properties where added.
17. Mediaplayer
    • BUG 123525: Ensure that ring tones are played multiple times if continuous is selected in the profile.
    • BUG 114919: Ensure that e.g. ring tones are audible, even when playing multimedia.
    • Ensure that Helix can be build on an OMAP730 device.
    • BUG 122595: Improve audio performance for OMAP730 and some other devices by disabling visualization.
    • BUG 119302: Fixed a crash (e.g. as a result of a restart after a language change) by deleting objects in the correct sequence.
    • BUG 118791: Fixed a crash, especially with Shoutcast streams.
18. Messages
    • BUG 124382: Ensure the user can enter a text when replying to an SMS, by giving the composer dialog the focus.
    • BUG 124270: Fixed a regression in IMAP performance.
    • BUG 123986: Fixed a crash when trying to add an SSL account in configurations where SSL is not supported.
    • BUG 123872: Removed overcomplete 'contacts' buttons shown in SMS Composer in Touchscreen mode.
    • BUG 123684: Prevent Qtmail from freezing when emptying the trash.
    • BUG 123693: Fixed TLS over SMTP incorrectly accepting invalid/missing server certificates.
    • BUG 122718: SMIL presentation with multiple slides was not rendered correctly.
    • BUG 118799: Prevent SMS messages from extending beyond limit on touch screen
    • BUG 122575: Fixed a problem with modal dialogs that prevented audio to be added to mms messages.
    • BUG 112856: Prevent QtMail from sending messages when in Airplane safe mode.
    • BUG 122588: Fix problem with Qtmail being hidden instead of closed after sending an MMS read-report.
    • Fixed a problem with adding audio to MMS message.
    • Prevent an overflow on the SMS character limit when inserting template text.
    • Fixed a memory corruption bug that occurred when sending a message to a long phone number.
    • BUG 122108: Fixed a mediarecorder crash when recording audio from MMS composer.
19. MultiTasking
    • Don't show background tasks such as sipagent in the multi-task selection list.
20. Networking
    • Fixed a bug whereby a dialup interface times out and doesn't reset the default gateway.
21. Notes
    • BUG 119589: Only create a default description if notes has been changed.
    • BUG 122568: Give file selector focus in single exec configuration.
22. Performance
    • Improved startup by running gifanim in background.
    • Fixed inefficient usage of pixmaps and icons.
    • BUG 113342: Improve startuptime of Date & Time application.
23. Phone Settings
    • Ensure sms & voice mail number are updated at once.
    • BUG 112846: Show an error message when call barring fails.
    • Fixed skipping items when key up/down pressed.
24. Photo Editor
    • BUG 122725: Ensure contact photos can be edited.
    • BUG 122724: Fixed a crash when executed via camera application.
25. Pictures
    • BUG 118992: Prevent thumbnail view being displayed before showing the requested image.
26. Qtopia
    • BUG 122975: Ensure the Transformed graphics driver is enabled when using non-zero display rotations. There are some known issues left that will be fixed in 4.2.0.
    • BUG 122889: Properly discard timers to avoid warnings.
    • BUG 123233: Refactored startup logic so that it accounts for crashes, i.e. the server will try to restart after a crash.
    • Removed hard-coding of tmp dir.
    • Improved binary sizes by making better use of symbol visibility
    • Fixed a warning about unregistered timers that occurred when Qtopia (in singleexec mode) was running idle.
    • BUG 113351: Update time displays immediately after the time has changed.
    • BUG 119916, 119917, 119444: Replaced ugly wait screen with a nicer animated version.
    • added basic gif support. (known problem: thumbnails via QThumbnail are not supported yet).
27. Qvfb
    • BUG 123234: Replaced a hard-coded /tmp path with Qtopia::tempDir() so that multiple instances of Qtopia can run on a single developer PC.
    • Prevent the host machine from dying after a Qtopia process runs away by setting some ulimits in the runqpe script.
28. Speed Dial
    • BUG 123852: Adding an inactive profile to Speed Dial also activated that profile.
    • BUG 122275: Use the right size icon to display for all elements.
    • BUG 122274: Contacts are shown without a name.
29. Todo
    • Ensure the behavior of tasks is consistent through different kinds of manipulation/editors.
    • BUG 122270: Make application more intelligent in handling Percent-Completed.
30. Voice Notes
    • BUG 122268: Stopped voice notes from crashing/freezing
    • BUG 122391: Ensure application is using the correct file to save audio.
31. Voip
    • BUG 123984: Ensure that VoIP settings are saved after being changed, and the new settings are used.
    • BUG 118939: Delay VoIP connection attempts until after the user is finished editing the settings.
    • BUG 122907: Prevent a crash in the sipagent when 'double' registering.
    • BUG 119118: Prevent the user from having to enter a username twice (both in Identity and Proxy tabs).
32. Worldtime
    • BUG 122913: Normalised scrolling behaviour in worldtime
    • BUG 122730: Ensure that correct city is shown in the world map after changing the selection and that it shows the current city at startup.
    • BUG 122117: Fix crash when Hangup key is pressed in the World Time application.
    • BUG 119161: Ensure the correct setting of time zone.