Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Apps I would like ....

2016-04-20 Thread Darren Hoyland
While we're on the subject, something else that would be useful to have is a "me" contact. Android doesn't do it, so I have to add me as a normal contact (I can never remember my landline number!). If this were to be given a special status, apps could request this, e.g.automatically set up a defaul

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The one simple fix that make the Ubuntu Phone incredible

2016-04-19 Thread Darren Hoyland
A "Favorites" scope, just like the "Apps" scope, but where the user selects which apps go in there could go some way towards a customisable home page. This could easily be done without any major changes. If you could add your own background, and also add your favorite bits from the "Today" scope a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ubuntu one

2016-04-04 Thread Darren Hoyland
If it were up to me, I would just get syncthing working on the phone (there's an app but it's just a prrof of concept) and then relaunch U1 as a branded front end that uses syncthing behind the scenes. Canonical could then charge people by the MB to store things on a cloud. Then you could specifi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Interruptions. When?

2016-03-31 Thread Darren Hoyland
Maybe it could implement something like how logging levels work, with different levels of severity: TRACE < DEBUG < INFO < WARN < ERROR < FATAL In this case, maybe notifications could have: INFO < PRIORITYINFO < IMPORTANT < URGENT and the default would be INFO. The app writer would be able to p

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Google Calendar Syenc

2015-12-03 Thread Darren Hoyland
I used to have this problem on my BQ Aquaris E4.5, and kept hoping the next OTA would sort it out. Eventually I did Settings > Reset Phone > "Erase & Reset Everything" and it's now working. I'm a little reluctant to recommend this approach because, technically, what I should have done is carefully