A set of useful GPE applications is available for Maemo 4.0 Chinook which runs on th Nokia N800 and N810 Internet Tablet devices. Graham Cobb did a magnificant job updating the applications, fixing various issues and building binary packages.

This is GPE-Contacts in use on a N810 (click to enlarge).

Find out more:

The GPE project website has a new and improved design now. The layout is the same as before, so all links should be still valid.

Many thanks to Nóra Demeter for this great contribution!

The G Palmptop Environment (GPE) project is proud to announce a new release: GPE 2.8 is ready.

We have collected a lot of improvement and many bugfixes for this release to make GPE a more mature and stable framework to run on multiple devices. Due to the move of the project to its new hosting location it took much longer than expected to finish this release. The roadmap provides a small overview about the components that are part of the release.

The most important changes since 2.7 are:

The LiPS Forum just released their first set of standards to the public. This includes the LiPS Reference Model, Address Book and Voice Call backends and user interface service specifications which are based on GTK 2.x. The release of additional parts for the version 1.0 standard is planned for this year.

Read the full announcement at the website of the LiPS Forum here.

This is a quite important step for our GPE Phone Edition project which works on an Open Source implementation of these standards and of course for the development of Linux based phones in general.

The shared project booth at Linuxtag was a very good experience again. It looks like Gnome, GPE, G(PE)² and Tinymail form a quite good group to cover a huge scale of different devices and interests. Like every time at LinuxTag we had a nice mixture of visitors from different areas at the booth including users asking for device support, people with nice ideas for extending our applications and interested professionals from companies.

Many thanks to the LinuxTag team, the Gnome people, Nils, Ole and everyone else who was involved in supporting our presence at this event.

Here we have some random images from the event (click to see a larger version):

The projects GPE, Tinymail and GPE Phone Edition will be present with a booth at the LinuxTag fair and conference. It takes place at Berlin Expo Center from from May 30 to June 2, 2007. We share the booth 30 in hall 12 with the Gnome people.
You can expect to see a lot of funky devices running interesting mobile software there as well at the chance to meet some of the developers. We would be happy to meet you at LinuxTag!

The GNOME Project just announced the new GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative (GMAE)
which introduces a new focus on GNOME and related software for mobile devices. It is meant to be a central instance to improve communication and provide coordination for projects, contributors and companies who are involved into mobile device projects.

You can read more about it in the official press release.

There is a new GPE Phone Edition VMWare image available from the projects file release section.

It now includes the email application and and several updates to libraries and the phoneserver application.
The relase notes and changes can be found here.

If you identify bugs in the applications shipped with the image you can file bug reports in the bugtracker.

Enjoy!

A new project hosted here was just released to the public - read more about GPE Phone Edition below or just visit the project website.

GPE Phone Edition (G(PE)²) is meant to develop and deploy a GTK / GPE based implementation of a LIPS compliant software stack. It contains a set of applications, libraries and documentation to build software to be used for mobile phones and similar devices, also see the press release text for more details.

The GPE website looks a little bit old-fashioned, right? I tried to improve its look a little bit yesterday but my HTML and CSS knowlege is a little bit limited. I believe it is better than before but bug reports are always welcome... as soon as bugzilla is working again. :-) Of course here is always the mailingist.

After all this unpleasent discussions i started to move the GPE wiki to LinuxToGo as well. This is also a good chance to merge information from the CVSTrac wiki into the main wiki. We have the most important things in here now and quite some updates of things i noticed while editing the new wiki.

Like always any help is appreciated - there are still some pages missing and large parts of the wiki might want some updates. Don't hestitiate to touch it - its a wiki! :-)