Qt Extended - 4.4.3 Release Notes

Bug Fixes

1. Bluetooth
   • BUG 231639: In the Bluetooth Settings application, the Supported Services window was difficult to navigate.
2. Build System
   • BUG 224317: Qt Extended failed to build for an x86_64 target.
   • BUG 234958: When building Qt from source via the -build-qt configure option, Qt/Embedded was built instead of Qt/X11.
   • BUG 235271: Running qbuild clean did not remove generated header files.
3. Code quality
   • A number of compilation warnings have been eliminated.
   • BUG 234789: Compilation would fail if -DQTOPIA_ANIMATED_SPLASH was passed to configure.
4. Contacts
   • BUG 240097: Contacts could not match phone numbers with extra leading zeroes to a contact. On some networks, phone numbers supplied by Caller ID have extra leading zeroes.
5. Documentation
   • BUG 229893,231178,233103,234441: Documentation related to creating and building applications has been updated to describe usage of qbuild.
   • BUG 236498: More of the example applications have been updated to use QBuild.
6. Input Methods:
   • BUG 235139: The 4.4.2 release contained a regression, where the Predictive Keyboard did not correctly switch between uppercase and lowercase panels in autocapitalization mode.
7. Internationalization:
   • BUG 231783: Singleexec builds were missing translations for some plugins and tools.
8. Media Player:
   • BUG 234976: Media Player was unable to play streaming media after opening a .pls file.
   • BUG 241264: Media Player did not inform the user if attempting to save a playlist failed.
9. Messaging:
   • BUG 228505,234790: Downloaded messages were stored entirely in RAM before being written to the message store, causing excessive memory usage when downloading large messages.
   • BUG 231170: Copy and paste could be used to violate the SMS message size limit.
   • BUG 232412: MMS messages containing animated GIF images did not play back correctly.
   • BUG 233441: QMailMessage::setDate() failed if the current locale was not compatible with 7-bit ASCII.
   • BUG 234072: Attempting to send a message to an email address embedded in an SMS message would open the SMS composer instead of the email composer.
   • BUG 234074: Attempting to send an SMS message to a contact with numeric characters in the contact name would incorrectly append those numeric characters to the phone number to which the message was sent.
   • BUG 235767: In the message viewer, email addresses containing only one period were not shown as "mailto" hyperlinks.
   • BUG 236257: The Messages application would sometimes freeze when retrieving the folder structure of a new IMAP account.
   • BUG 236276: The Messages application would sometimes freeze when playing MMS video.
   • BUG 236494: The Messages application would crash if attempting to play an MMS message containing DRM-protected content for which the rights had expired.
   • BUG 236495: While an MMS message was playing, the screen could be dimmed due to default power management behaviour.
   • BUG 236508: The messages application would incorrectly attempt to forward Forward-Locked MMS content.
   • BUG 241538: Messages did not indicate to the user when connecting to a POP server failed.
10. N810 Device Profile
    • BUG 224970: Setting the global volume control to mute changed the audio output volume to minimum (but still audible) instead of zero.
    • BUG 225694: SD cards were not always correctly mounted on insertion.
    • BUG 225698: Inserting an SD card would cause USB networking to stop functioning.
    • BUG 225218: Message boxes were displayed without a title bar.
11. OpenMoko Neo1973/Freerunner Device
    • BUG 231959: The message box that confirms clearing of call history could not be dismissed.
12. Pictures
    • BUG 244223: If the user attempted to set a large image as the wallpaper, Pictures would crash rather than reporting that the image was too large to fit in memory.
13. Profiles
    • BUG 177141: The Profiles application displayed a generic profile icon instead of the assigned icon for each profile.
    • BUG 202442: On touchscreen devices, the tap-and-hold menu would open on tap rather tap-and-hold after the first successful tap-and-hold.
    • BUG 266666: Video ringtones could not be set because the file selector filtered on audio files instead of video files.
14. Sync Agent
    • BUG 230268: Various functions dealing with times and locales were using the wrong locale.
15. Telephony
    • BUG 236512: SIM applications could not play sounds.
    • BUG 236662: Activating the Dialer's "All Calls" menu option would cause the Qt Extended server to crash when selecting an item from the resulting list of calls.
    • BUG 236779: Qt Extended would crash on startup when a GPRSMonitor server task was enabled.
    • BUG 238794: If the media module was excluded from the build, ringtones could not be played. This release restores the previous behaviour, where a build without the media module supports playing of .wav format ringtones.
    • BUG 239864: If using the Crisp theme on a touchscreen device, it was not possible to enter a phone number into the dialer screen.
16. Test Framework
    • BUG 209337: It was not previously possible for a system test to expect Qt Extended to be restarted by an application. Restarts can now be handled using a combination of expectApplicationClose and waitForQtopiaStart calls.
    • BUG 209538: Changing input methods using keyClickHold in a test function did not work.
    • BUG 232557: A select() call that caused an application to close resulted in a test failure.
    • BUG 234631: Using keyClickHold on the homescreen from a test function caused the key to autorepeat instead of activating speed dial.
17. Themes
    • BUG 180544: In the Crisp theme, part of the "missed calls" string on the homescreen was cut off.
18. UI
    • BUG 212568: Scrolling a smoothlist off the top or bottom of the list with the keypad incorrectly resulted in the highlight moving by two items instead of one.
    • BUG 216410: Various time spinboxes did not wrap between minimum and maximum values.
19. Words
    • BUG 154966: When multiple languages were available for input, the word search function omitted the name of the (alphabetically) first language rather than the name of the display language.