Hi Again Zero :

The default keyboard is the original. We are not crazy =) To do a fully usable keyboard takes a lot of time, and of course in our case help to support foreign languages (we do have pro-level on Pt_br)

So don't worry with that. And actually that's a developer's demo, there's not UI work on it, and I can make sure to you : the final keyboard (maybe only next year) will be 10x better then this demo =) But of course keyboard is almost like a habit, if people like the old one, they have the option to stick to it without leaving canola (settings -> General -> keyboard)

Reggie : I think a lot of people will prefer the bigger keys instead of context.

For me, I really like context and I know some people also do, to enable more UI experiments the new keyboard is needed, and will be available for those who like to experiment the new things.

=)

When I tried out Gustavo's demo, I thought it achieved a nice balance between key size for thumb-typing ease, and leaving enough screen real estate to also see what you're typing : a middle approach, in a way, between the small and the full-screen Maemo keyboards.

I love canola, the new release looks great and I cannot wait to install it on my 770 and start playing! One question though, how is the configuration database going to be stored, my one frustration with the current version is when you flash the device with a new OS you lose all your configuration settings and have to reenter them again. I also think I read somewhere that it would come preconfigured with a lot of internet radio and podcasts, is this true?

Hi Guys, just got out of the plan, little dizzy cause I couldn't get any sleep but here goes the answers :

@fpp : Yes, definitely the size is nice and we are working on the graphics and a little bit better positioning (and some missing keys) to complete the experience. What I really wanted when talking to gustavo was to have context. He then at the time surprised me with that keyboard in his spare time (actually he did more patches to evas then code for the keyboard). So I think it's again a nice option to experiment different usages on the NITs.

@Jer :
You have written something pretty interesting. What we really wanted to do was to be able to have an application on the desktop that could take care of synchronizing / backing up everything but this is just impossible for us now (we tried in the past with synchropated but it didn't went to far because we focused on Canola)

While I cannot promise anything I think Gustavo will agree that this could be solved with a simple (backup settings to file) and then you can just copy the file back to canola folder or something, but this is dependent pretty much on time and we lack this. Anyways is one of the best suggestions for sure. I will talk to gustavo today about this, but as he asked me I will not promise anything.

For podcast / rss we learned that typing sucks. Having to copy the feed from a browser to the other browser window etc it was a drag and a lot of users could not grasp it. We have a plan to solve this, but if it comes to reality will only work in the new browser (the mozilla based one) with extensions.

Yes, we do plan to ship with a selection of podcast, radios and if possible a little bit more media.

=)

I have been following Canola development after seeing some videos of it on Youtube and I must say that you guys did a great job, with Canola and VNC there is no reason to "not" get an IT.

Thanks very much to the team.

Kozzi,

Thanks for the word (on behalf of the team) and I repeat here what people might also have forgotten :

Our main goal, is above canola. Is to make Maemo a great platform for the IT and the IT then get a LOT of applications that brings a LOT of users. this generates market, then IT will evolve even more, and we have a open and incredible platform to hack on!

In the end, is all about choice: you can use UKMP (it's opensource, has party mode, reflections, even deleting tracks) or even Kagu (I think it's the same feature set) or Canola, there's another media player coming. I wish this "variety" were present also in the other applications.

While this happens, we also keep python in great shape (so UKMP and Kagu and Canola can trust it) carman is evolving a lot (LGPL) mamona is a nice experiment platform based on maemo, we still have some small games since the 770, we helped on Videocenter, media converter, and a lot more. So please, send all the critics, we really like nice words (it's the fuel) but critics are the basis to find / categorize and solve the problems.

BR

Hey handful, well the new release have AD2P support and AVRCP support if possible? This would be really useful to me. I prefer Canola to Kagu and UKMP, but I really want bluetooth headphone support.

So, when will Canola be free software (in the FSF sense)?

Sorry if this question was answered before (it has already been asked in this thread): Will there be ogg support?

Is it possible for Canola to auto-download missing covers/Cd-labels from Internet, i.e Amazon for media files ?