Inception provides user access to all Harmattan Aegis permissions

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

An interesting tool has surfaced as an alternative to Harmattan open-mode to give applications access to any security features without worrying about Aegis. The Nokia N9 is an amazing piece of hardware running an amazing mobile OS. However, advanced users have often been frustrated by its sometimes-limiting Aegis security system. Aegis, like many other security frameworks, blocks many legitimate tasks beyond truly dangerous activity, and makes it difficult to customize your N9 to run on your terms. This problem is one of the past: INCEPTION allows you to assume direct control and liberate your Nokia N9's full potential. Read the full description of the tool and what it does before trying it to make sure you understand any risks that may be involved.

Remote text input using Maliit

Editor: Ryan Abel

maliit.org has posted a YouTube video demonstrating their experimental new remote text input. Video demonstrates experimental remote text input using the network transparency support recently added to Maliit. The illustrated use-case is to use your mobile device (tablet/smartphone) to act as an input device for your TV, replacing a traditional remote control. The architecture of Maliit allowed this to work without needing changes in application toolkit or input method plugin: one can use the same virtual keyboard as normally used on the mobile device, and the same application support that would be used for non-remote input.

PySide becomes a Qt add-on

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

PySide - the Python Qt binding framework - is now an official Qt add-on. Being a Qt Add-on provides PySide a permanent home and perfect alignment with Qt Frameworks. Furthermore, the project gets improved visibility, as well as a simple, carefully thought out meritocratic project structure. In addition to the wiki that is already hosted by Qt, the PySide mailing list and the bug tracker are also now hosted by Qt. More information on the Qt Project can be found on the project web site.

Embedding microb browser in your N900 app

Editor: Andrew Flegg

Jonathan Wilson has completed a challenge he set out on a few months ago: embedding a Fremantle browser instance in an app: Thanks to a nice person at Nokia who published Fremantle sources for tablet-browser-daemon and browser-neteal, we now have the 100% correct browser-neteal-dev package required to embed the browser view in your app just like Nokia did with microb, tutorial-home-applet and other things.

This is what you need to know in order to embed the microb browser view widget (which in turn talks to the browser daemon just like microb does) in your app. This provides a far simpler way to embed a fully-featured browser in a Maemo app than any of the alternatives.