Re: [Ubuntu-phone] An android confession

2016-06-29 Thread Jouni Helminen
> > Waze on Android on the otherhand has has a makeover and is looking > fantastic. It knew where I was right away with no delay whatsoever, plotted > the route in a flash and all the things I need to be paying attention to > such as speed cameras are nicely highlighted on screen. It now even tells

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] paint the black

2016-02-26 Thread Jouni Helminen
t;>> >>> As far as I know the benefit is kind of linearly growing between #11 >>> and #00. >>> >>> But the generic battery saving feature is just one thing. The >>> opportunity to use creative lock screen instead of switched off display is

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] font size/ accessibility

2016-02-12 Thread Jouni Helminen
The default font sizes (which most apps and dash use) are defined in the UITK so it should be in principle be possible to adjust them without other changes in the UI, at least for apps that use the UITK and the default font sizes. It would be nice to be able to change that, and the px/GU value wit

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] new Dekko rocks

2016-02-08 Thread Jouni Helminen
Glad you like the new look and feel, a few other core apps will soon be getting a similar UI refresh with the new light design language and refreshed visuals. Huge props to Dan for putting so much time and love into Dekko, and a shout out to Faenil for the new fast listitems! On Sun, Feb 7, 2016

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Find out if running on a phone

2016-01-14 Thread Jouni Helminen
I agree with Michael, I was going to post gmail as an example of an email client that is usable with touch or pointer, using the same UI. I think the slightly increased affordance that accommodates both touch and mouse is better, most of the time, than the possible confusion and added complexity o

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Click sound taking a photo

2015-11-20 Thread Jouni Helminen
There is an existing bug for it, it's being worked on https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1424147 On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Dominik Wnęk wrote: > Wasn't there some privacy law which said the shutter sound must always be > heard so people will know they're bein

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The problem with "no background processing for apps"

2015-10-02 Thread Jouni Helminen
My friends built this for iOS/Android https://www.moves-app.com/ And most of its success has been due to the fact that you just leave it running in the background all the time. It works out whether you are walking/running/cycling/driving from the motion sensor/gps data algorithmically. There is so

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Mobile app enabled Robotics, MrRobot Project released

2015-09-17 Thread Jouni Helminen
Rex that is very cool. I see the phone is basically being used as a controller via wifi - would be interesting to see the phone being used as an IoT brain itself, with USB OTG ->gpio, like this or similar https://www.adafruit.com/products/2264 On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Femma Ashraf wrote

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] VoIP for Ubuntu Touch

2015-07-20 Thread Jouni Helminen
Would be great to have OS level integration for voip. I would look at Opus as the codec - it's great. I think latest version of Mumble and WebRTC both use Opus? On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Craig Harper wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I would like to start a discussion on VoIP and Ubuntu Touch Pho

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Convergence, Browser and WebRTC

2015-06-24 Thread Jouni Helminen
. > > [1] > > https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/wie-bekommt-man-xmir-auf-dem-nexus-7-zum-laufe/2/#post-7540153 > > > > >____ > > Von: Jouni Helminen > >An: marcoka...@web.de > >CC: Ubuntu Phone > >Gesendet: 18:49 Dienstag, 23.Ju

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Convergence, Browser and WebRTC

2015-06-23 Thread Jouni Helminen
tried this on Meizu, getting some errors when running the Xmir part of the script.. glamor GLSL version: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00 build 1.3@3304414 (EE) (EE) Backtrace: (EE) (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0 (EE) Fatal server error: (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting (

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Designer Input / Ideas

2015-06-23 Thread Jouni Helminen
Hey Daniel, Sounds great. Once you have something going I can have a look and give some design input - do you have a repository or a click package? Best Jouni On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Daniel Wood wrote: > I have been discussing this with a colleague today and talking about what > use

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu phones for electronic/robotics prototyping

2015-06-17 Thread Jouni Helminen
. Cheers Jouni On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 17.06.2015, 10:43 +0100 schrieb Jouni Helminen: > > Was reading the Hacker News commentary on the new RPi case, and many > > people were wondering why not use phones for

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Convergence, Browser and WebRTC

2015-06-17 Thread Jouni Helminen
Very cool. Could you post some screenshots/video of the issues? If you get Chromium running, could also be interesting to try this - http://archon-runtime.github.io/ as a way of getting Android apps to run inside Chromium Cheers Jouni On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Andrea Bernabei < andrea.be

[Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu phones for electronic/robotics prototyping

2015-06-17 Thread Jouni Helminen
Was reading the Hacker News commentary on the new RPi case, and many people were wondering why not use phones for things we use RPi for, since phones are very cheap now and have a lot of extra hardware built in - sensors, display, connectivity. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9727317 Has any

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] presentation of Ubuntu phone

2015-04-02 Thread Jouni Helminen
With Nexus 4 and 7 you can also use a slimport -> HDMI cable connected directly to a video projector, running at a good resolution without any lag On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Mike Sheldon wrote: > Hi Matthias, > > This article from Stuart Langridge gives instructions on how to do a > live

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Notice for Application Developers regarding Full shell rotation landing soon

2015-02-06 Thread Jouni Helminen
Great to see this happening. +1 for in-app rotation lock (as well as global). Would have thought the dialer for instance needs to do this On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Daniel d'Andrada < daniel.dandr...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 05/02/2015 19:24, Robert Schroll wrote: > >> We came up with a d

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Notice for Application Developers regarding Full shell rotation landing soon

2015-02-02 Thread Jouni Helminen
I have been playing with nexus 10 (in landscape), things don't break and generally reflow but good to check all scopes (and apps) in landscape on phone/tablet, and have a think about reflow rules (in terms of margins and columns). We have tailored responsive designs done for a couple of apps but h

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Slide to answer

2014-11-14 Thread Jouni Helminen
agree with Michael Z. Can we make it full screen? On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Michael Zanetti < michael.zane...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On 14.11.2014 15:33, Olga Kemmet wrote: > > The visual design is currently work in progress. > We will take your comments into account for the next versio

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] What margin should separator use?

2014-10-17 Thread Jouni Helminen
worked on? Is there any bug to track the work? > > The current rtm image still have those margins which makes settings (and > probably some other things) look unpolished :/ > > Cheers, > Sebastien Bacher > > Le 30/09/2014 17:01, Jouni Helminen a écrit : > > Hey Seb, &

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Kinetic scrolling: isn't deceleration too strong?

2014-10-01 Thread Jouni Helminen
I think the *maximum* scroll velocity value should be increased from current - if you do a fast/long swipe gesture, the scroll speed should be faster than it currently is. Compare the scrolling speed of a listview on a quick swipe on Android to ours, and you see what I mean. There was a bug raise

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] What margin should separator use?

2014-09-30 Thread Jouni Helminen
Hey Seb, We are reverting back to the previous listview without the side margins, so you don't need to do anything. Should land soon On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey there, > > Recently the ubuntu-ui-toolkit/design changed to make ListItem > separators use left/r

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] New back button placement, are we serious ?!?

2014-03-26 Thread Jouni Helminen
14 at 3:15 PM, Jouni Helminen > wrote: > > speaking of Android, their back button is pretty much in the exact same > > place - top left. Same with iOS > > Hmm.. not in the stock images. It's in the left side of the bottom > bar. Best possible place for something used all the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] New back button placement, are we serious ?!?

2014-03-26 Thread Jouni Helminen
speaking of Android, their back button is pretty much in the exact same place - top left. Same with iOS Agreed there could be a "back" gesture, but what would it be? one finger horizontal swipes are usually reserved for something else On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: > F

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OSK regression [was: Re: Ubuntu touch images - 11.12.13]

2013-12-13 Thread Jouni Helminen
Sounds good Zanetti! We were thinking about making the whole keyboard swipeable, but thought that might interfere with swipe based keyboards like Swype later on.. in terms of usability though it would be far superior. Maybe for a Swype keyboard we have the top part as the touch area, and normal ke

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Connect to phone from Mac

2013-11-19 Thread Jouni Helminen
gt; Am Dienstag, den 19.11.2013, 21:17 + schrieb Jouni Helminen: > > Doesn't work for me either - mtp usb seems to only works in ubuntu > > vm, not OSX. Would be nice if it did > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Jason Felice > > wrote

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Connect to phone from Mac

2013-11-19 Thread Jouni Helminen
Doesn't work for me either - mtp usb seems to only works in ubuntu vm, not OSX. Would be nice if it did On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Jason Felice wrote: > > Does anyone have a way to do this? I can connect from within an Ubuntu VM > just fine, but this takes more effort to get photos and o

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Standard icons

2013-09-12 Thread Jouni Helminen
We have a set of this type of standard icons you can call via gicon, but it's still work in progress. The list of available icon visuals and names will be on the design guidelines website soon, perhaps someone else can comment on where to find documentation on how to use gicon? Jouni On Thu, Sep

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] scrolling in apps is not accelerated

2013-08-30 Thread Jouni Helminen
I agree, if you swipe repeatedly, the scroll speed should increase, it feels clunky at the moment On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Omer Akram wrote: > Hey everyone, > > The scrolling in the apps is not accelerated i.e. if we scroll multiple > times while a list is scrolling that does not fasten

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sound recorder in core-apps

2013-08-21 Thread Jouni Helminen
I can volunteer to work on the design for this. If anyone wants to develop this, hit me up on email On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:53 PM, John McCormack wrote: > Yep, good idea. It's a standard feature for mobile devices. > > John McC > On 21 Aug 2013 23:43, "Omer Akram" wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Dialer/number entry component?

2013-07-19 Thread Jouni Helminen
Hey Iain, If you mean the large dial pad in the phone app for dialing numbers (the same dial pad is used for unlocking the phone with a pin) then we are in the process of redesigning the visuals for it - should be available in the next couple of weeks. It isn't tied in with Maliit and isn't in the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Emergency call

2013-06-28 Thread Jouni Helminen
We've got an emergency call icon coming along with the unlock screen soon. We explored gestures or hiding it but discoverability is a problem - so ended up with a design where it is visible at the bottom of the screen On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Daniel Holm wrote: > Oh man, so that's why I

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to make deb package?

2013-04-10 Thread Jouni Helminen
Interesting discussion! Would be great to have some documentation on this when things start falling into place. I was doing a few talks on Ubuntu Touch in Myanmar and Singapore last couple of weeks - mostly introductory and design focused - but a lot of technical questions came up as well from peo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] deleting new sms and new layout for keyboard

2013-04-05 Thread Jouni Helminen
I would hold fire on doing this with the current nemo keyboard. It should be possible to add new languages to the new maliit keyboard - I noticed Thomas Moenicke added some preliminary support for it this week On 04/04/2013 13:50, Amir Mahmoudi wrote: > Hi, > I'm using ubuntu-touch on my Nexus 4

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Multilangual translations for Ubuntu Touch?

2013-03-19 Thread Jouni Helminen
w Ko Ko Ye? Best Jouni Helminen Lead Designer, Ubuntu Touch On Tue Mar 19 11:52:51 2013, Pyae Sone wrote: > +1 Your Post, > > I want to see Ubuntu Touch with Burmese Language! > > I will surely help to translate English to Burmese (Myanmar). > > Hope that function will

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Why is there not a Browser or music app in the core app?

2013-03-15 Thread Jouni Helminen
I think the default browser is and will be webkit based, but if I remember seeing a QT based Firefox browser video recently which would probably be easier to take as a starting point than an android build, if someone wanted to port Firefox to Ubuntu Touch On 15/03/2013 16:50, Kévin PEIGNOT wrote

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Music app.

2013-03-07 Thread Jouni Helminen
ld use some great design. Most likely I can reuse most of it for Xbmcremote > too. > > Cheers, > Michael > > On Thursday 07 March 2013 10:12:03 Jouni Helminen wrote: >> Hey guys, >> >> We've done some nice new designs for a core music app at Canonical - we >&

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Music app.

2013-03-07 Thread Jouni Helminen
ster wrote: > Good idea! How about implementing Grooveshark, Spotify, ...? A lyrics > addon? > Is this possible? > > Sent from CeBIT > ---- > Von: Jouni Helminen > Gesendet: 07.03.2013 11:11 > An: ubuntu-ph

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Music app.

2013-03-07 Thread Jouni Helminen
Hey guys, We've done some nice new designs for a core music app at Canonical - we could share these soon and see if it makes sense to use them as a starting point for the UI? Thanks Jouni Helminen Lead Designer Ubuntu Touch On Thu Mar 7 02:32:52 2013, Akash wrote: > As far a