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    === Tile Creation ===
    === Tile Creation ===
    Creating maps before they are shown for the first time does not work on Maemo. Currently this leads to a crash at the first start, when the Atlas map is trying to be created. A workaround is described in the [[/MaemoEnvironment|development environment page]]. See also [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233153 bug 233153].
    Running tilecreator in scratchbox does not work on the armel target (Qt programs loading .jpg files via QImage/QImageReader segfault in scratchbox). Therefore tiles cannot be created from srtm.jpg, which leads to a segfault on the device when activating maps using srtm data on the N900. As a workaround, the data files (which are architecture independent) can be copied from a different build.
     
    === Font Sizes ===
    Fonts in the control widgets are too big, fonts in the map too small.
     
    === Control Box ===
    A stripped down version of the control box would help. The tabs itself take more than half of its space.
    * Unify search input field and routing fields
    * Float items in the map instead of navigation controls. The navigation float item handles this to some way, but the icons should be even larger for touch input.
     
    === Menu ===
    The main menu is currently stripped down and provides only basic actions. Other useful actions need to be added or replacement actions be implemented (e.g. plugin selection).


    === Storage directories ===
    === Storage directories ===
    Maemo devices have uncommon partition layouts and sizes. In particular, space on / is quite limited, /home has more and /home/user/MyDocs plenty. Cached data could be written to /home/user/MyDocs/marble. See also [[../xdg|XDG Base Directory Specification]], [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230714 Bug 230714] and [http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3473/ this patch].
    Maemo devices have uncommon partition layouts and sizes. In particular, space on / is quite limited, /home and /opt have more and /home/user/MyDocs plenty. For this reason we install marble in /opt/marble and use /home/user/MyDocs/.local/share/marble to store cached data.
    When using /home/user/MyDocs, it would be nice to find a way that prevents the Maemo built-in photo application stop indexing downloaded tiles.
     
    === GPS support ===
    See [http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3491/ this patch]

    Revision as of 20:53, 28 January 2011

    Tile Creation

    Running tilecreator in scratchbox does not work on the armel target (Qt programs loading .jpg files via QImage/QImageReader segfault in scratchbox). Therefore tiles cannot be created from srtm.jpg, which leads to a segfault on the device when activating maps using srtm data on the N900. As a workaround, the data files (which are architecture independent) can be copied from a different build.

    Storage directories

    Maemo devices have uncommon partition layouts and sizes. In particular, space on / is quite limited, /home and /opt have more and /home/user/MyDocs plenty. For this reason we install marble in /opt/marble and use /home/user/MyDocs/.local/share/marble to store cached data.