Things to do for GPE Phone Edition

GUI Applications

• Initial start configuration wizzard
• Camera application
• Instant messenger
• Data synchronisation and backup
• Integration of PIM application with OBEX services (IrDA and Bluetooth)
• Improved homescreen with plugin support
• more status panel plugins
• Web browser
• File manager
• Task switcher and integration of this with the button event management
• Notes application - sketches, text and voice would be nice
• Text entry for devices with numeric keypad - Not T9, its patented.
• Improved email client
• Use of gnome-vfs for applications in order to avoid exposing the complete

filesystem to all users.

Configuration and Customisation

• connectivity setup and control (GSM, UMTS, Wifi, Bluetooth...)
• input selection, hotkey configuration
• audio preferences
• screen rotation and calibration, backlight control
• USB settings
• time, date and locale
  • local time is available via GSM (cell tower broadcast)
  • device time should be stored in UTC
  • difference between GSM local time and device time (UTC) can be used to compute device locale/time zone settings
  • calendar should store entries internally in UTC (device time) and render to the user with a translation to local time (whatever that happens to be).
• GSM settings
• sounds and eyecandy (ringtones, themes, wallpapers)
• J2ME support

Arch and framework improvements

• Application manager
• Application services
• Application IPC e.g. for event notifications and profiles
• Global setting
• package manager
• TAPI improvement
• messaging enabler improvement

• calendaring & scheduling enabler

• Improved process lifecycle management
• Improved audio and video framework
• Network connectivity management
• Introduction of security mechanisms
• Service oriented launch of applications
• Button event manager (e.g. to handle special keys such as power, profile

selection...

• Power management controls and -awareness
• Theme management and policies
• Alarm framework
• Concept for multiple displays

Backends

• phoneserver plugin support
• status information providers
• full hardware support for at least one reference device
• support for devices with rotatable displays
• hardware event manager

Themes

• a less XP-like theme
• theme engine evaluation/development for richer visual effects, like blending, animations, etc.
• theme manager (installation/uninstallation of themes)

Documentation

• user manual

SDK and development

• A consistent SDK solution that is able to build both images and single binaries.
• We should recommend a set of base library versions and test our software with these.
• Same applies to compiler and binutils
• Include profiling tools into the SDK
• Glade
• Automatic build and update services

Optimization

• Mechanisms used to promote the application launching speed, windows switching speed.

High level (Arch) design

• Setting
• Services
• Notification