[Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

Reading talk.maemo.org on the Harmattan browser is slightly inconvenient, for me at least. Therefore, I give you forum-tmo, a very much work-in-progress N9/N950 QML UI for this very forum:

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The application can be downloaded via Apps for MeeGo. Or directly download a current Debian package from the Community OBS. The source code repository is on gitorious.org: https://gitorious.org/forum-qml/forum-tmo

I'd like to eventually grow this into a well-integrated and really (one-handed-)user-friendly interface for all important forum functions, so I'd value your input on how to design it properly to this end :)
And of course I've implemented tons of bugs for you to find...

For now it can:

• show the main forum list,
• show the forums' thread lists,
• show each threads' post list,
• use the quick search to search for threads, and
• show the "New Posts" or "Today's Posts" thread lists
• add and remove thanks

It can also post new threads in a forum, or new replies to a thread, but this functionality is still quite buggy. If you'd like to try this, please check the created post in the browser, too.

I've used the signon password plugin to store the login credentials for now, so there is no validation in the accounts UI yet.

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

Nice! :)

N900 port would be nice

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

People complain about the low app ecosystem of Maemo and Meego but its community members like you that reaffirm my decision to stay with this platform from the n810 to my new N9. Many Thanks to you and the rest of the developers out there.

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

Can you please upload this (and the MeeGo forum app) to the official repository? ( http://apps.formeego.com )

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

Done and done.

Porting to Fremantle/N900 should be possible, I have to check out the Qt Components support in extras.

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wow, now life would be much more easier great job dude:)

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I've got a bit of a problem. I typed in my password and it seems to be impossible to get back to the dialog. And removing or even purging the application doesn't remove the stored username/password settings. The error screen suggests I click the back button, but there is no back button on the first page, as you can see from the screenshots in the original post.

Never mind. I had to remove the account from "accounts". That part is missing an icon btw.

Yes, in the future the account plugin itself should do the validation so that you can't even create an account with wrong credentials.

The icon will appear after a reboot - does anybody know how to fix this? I suppose some icon cache would have to be updated in postinst.

Oh, and that <strike> bug is fixed in the next version.

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

It might be this bug: http://www.developer.nokia.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=369

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

How to install this ".ymp" files ? Where I can find the .deb files for this two forums ?

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

THIS IS GREAT :D

hope to see this supporting all the forums in future ;) "Symbian version will push it hardly"

thanks

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

I don't think so, this one is about the application icon not showing up.

The .ymp installer files are handled by the Apps for MeeGo client.
If you absolutely want to install the .deb files manually, check out this Community OBS repository.

Very nice app. I would like to propose an integration with the event feed if possible. I'd love to see active topics and new posts in subscribed threads in my timeline. Now I use rss for the same reason but it opens the rss app instead of forum-tmo.

That's a great idea, although I'd have to split the forum code into a backend that can operate independently from the GUI for that.

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

great work

Unicode support please?

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

Another recommendation I have is that the home page is switched from the main view to the latest posts. Another solution is to have them both directly in the toolbar and the last one used is always remembered.

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

I don't have an N9 myself, but actually seeing this thread both surprised and shocked me that Nokia didn't carry over one of the best features of the N900.

The forum pages are served with content type ISO-8859-1, I don't know how I could do anything about that.

I think at least the inital start screen should look similar to the forum web page, I like your second idea better.
But there are no good toolbar icons for "Forums", "Today's Posts" / "New Posts", and "Subscribed threads" - how about having a selection dialog when clicking the view header, similar to the Messages application?

Please ignore that, I understand the issue now and I'm working on it - I was sending percent encoded UTF-8 text to the server when I should send percent encoded ISO-8859-1 and HTML-encode non-Latin1 characters.

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

Seems that the app is not yet visible in the Apps for Meego client, is that due to it missing review info (or some other reason)?

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Check out http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_Apps/Community_QA. The application has not cleared QA yet, so you'd have to install the testing repostory enabler to see it.

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

Nice app, much appreciated. Some suggestions for improvement:

1. Have an option to choose start page as either forum list (default) or today's posts
2. Implement a refresh button on the today's posts page
3. Option to view most recent posts on a thread page by default instead of selecting "go to last page" everytime
4. I see you've a similar app for meego forums, can the two apps be merged and have an option to change forum source (t-mo, meego...) on the fly

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Yes, those are already in the pipeline.

That's a good excuse to learn how to make a settings plugin. I'll look into it.

I rather like having the two forums as separate icons in the application view. I could implement this similarly to the Contacts / Skype launchers, though.

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Till now everything awesome :) thanks

I believe its okay to use your great work to support more forums? but is there any guide to start with that?


thanks heaps

Of course. Unfortunately right now, the HTML parser is still hardcoded in the item model classes. That is to say, I need to work on documentation and separation of functionality. Check the onReceived slots in the Forum/Thread/PostList classes to get an idea of the current status.
A good start might be to see if you can construct a CSS selector to select each tag containing a single element (forum/thread/post) of a page of the forum you want to support.

Meanwhile, released version 0.0.5-1; changelog:

• Support for subscribing to and unsubscribing from threads
• Remember which page was active when quitting and restart there
• Various bug fixes
  - show forum a thread was posted to in MeeGo Forum
  - mark threads as read immediately
  - send messages as percent/HTML encoded ISO Latin 1
  - crash fix when replying
  - fix reloading in search results, multipage searches

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Thanks :)

I did look at it and did some modifications as the form Im trying to support using "table, tr, td" instead of "div" which i dont know if these going to work!

one more thing, how can I chose the character coding "to read and write" as the forum uses non-Latin characters

thanks a lot, I believes changing the "coding type" will help me to make it work.

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

Great app, but the command "mark forum read" not working on the phone :(

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Yeah I'm also battling to get this App, the link on the 1st Page doesn't open via my N9 Browser, how do I actually get this App, if U guys don't mind step by step please, I'm one of those who've never even Flushed my phone or used the Developer Mode...... I only know the basics!

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Guys how do U download this App, the link doesn't seem to work!!

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Here you go. I found it.

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any chance you could make this into an universal forum browser, with support for tapatalk or various forum parser scripts?

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apps:// links work on the N9 browser if you install the Apps For MeeGo client from http://apps.formeego.org.
Besides giving you a client application for accessing the repository, this will also register the package repository so that you could use apt-get if you'd like, and install the necessary keys so that App For MeeGo is regarded a trusted source by the N9, and allow apps to request the same Aegis privileges as those published via Ovi store.

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It says Installation Package not found, I do have Apps for Meego installed :(

This another reason why I wish we had Tapatalk

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

@Muzimak
here you can download it: https://build.pub.meego.com/package/...attan_standard

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

Is it only me or has anyone else noticed problems with TMO client (and Meego forum client as well) since PR1.2 update?
If I open a thread, the first page is loaded only partially and tapping old/newer posts gives just an empty screen...

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

Yes
same case, PM ed author, but no reply until now

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

Same here.

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

I'm glad you've gone out of your way to make this app, it is really useful. I wish TMO would cater to other devices and their resolutions and such, but this definitely makes great use of the screen for a site that's a real pain sometimes. I've realized two issues though.

1) I'm having the EXACT same problem as Reflektorfalke.
2) If you're TMO username has a "space" in it, you can't login. I've tried applying a space with Swype and the default keyboard, but it appears to not recognize this character, so I can't login...

Hope to hear about a resolution! Thanks!

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

still no update?

Re: [Announce/RFC] forum-tmo, a TMO Forum Viewer for Harmattan
 

who can help me build the deb from the source? as I see it is 0.061 version

https://gitorious.org/forum-qml/forum-tmo