Re: [Ubuntu-phone] connecting C++ to a QML button

2016-06-17 Thread Michael Terry
Err, you should probably keep using QString. Just switch your slot to accept a QString object instead of a pointer to one, rather. On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Michael Terry wrote: > Use SLOT(cppSlot(const QString *)) instead of SLOT(cppSlot(QString)). > > 2016-06-17 9:13

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] connecting C++ to a QML button

2016-06-17 Thread Michael Terry
Use SLOT(cppSlot(const QString *)) instead of SLOT(cppSlot(QString)). 2016-06-17 9:13 GMT-04:00 Matthias Apitz : > El día Friday, June 17, 2016 a las 09:00:57AM -0400, Michael Terry > escribió: > > > Try adding: > > objectName: "dialButton" > > > > to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] connecting C++ to a QML button

2016-06-17 Thread Michael Terry
Try adding: objectName: "dialButton" to dialButton? "id" is for inside-qml references. "objectName" is for findChild and ilk. On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to write my first QML/C++ app, so please be patient with me > :-) > > The C++ main.cpp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 23.03.16

2016-03-25 Thread Michael Terry
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:05 AM, Nick Luigi V. Eusebio wrote: > However, I also experienced an incomplete wizard. I only got the left > swipe and a long left swipe. The right and bottom gestures are gone and no > mention of the side-stage. > The tutorial screens come out slowly over time now.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SDK planning

2016-03-20 Thread Michael Terry
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Omer Akram wrote: > Perhaps we could provide some sophisticated API for the developers so that > they don't really have to handle threading directly, atleast for simpler > operations. (If there already is please enlighten me). > For network access, there is QNetw

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Strange webapps behavior

2016-02-11 Thread Michael Terry
I believe you are talking about: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1535154 Fix prepared, but not landed yet. On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Philippe Piquer wrote: > Since a few days, maybe since OTA9, when Facebook or Twiiter webapps > return from 'losing focus' an

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] System blocked by excessive time due to a bug when restarting

2015-12-10 Thread Michael Terry
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Camilo Ernesto Blanco Peña < cae...@gmail.com> wrote: > No, I never failed the unlock code (the code is and it is active > due a requisite of developer mode). Sending your password in plaintext over the Internet! Tsk. Tsk. :) -mt -- Mailing list: https://

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] System blocked by excessive time due to a bug when restarting

2015-12-10 Thread Michael Terry
Did you actually fail several times to log in, or is that screen showing up when it shouldn't in the first place? (Just trying to figure out exactly where the bug is.) -mt On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Camilo Ernesto Blanco Peña < cae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Team: > > Sorry for my bad Engl

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] System blocked by excessive time due to a bug when restarting

2015-12-10 Thread Michael Terry
So... I think the best bet is to enable wi-fi and reboot. And hope that the time fixes itself from the internet this time. I don't know why your ntp time would be so broken there. But I'll start working on a fix for your bug #3. Worst case you have to factory reset -mt On Thu, Dec 10, 20

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OTA-7 on bq e4.5 - first impressions

2015-10-21 Thread Michael Terry
on steps. What we need now is what we needed ever since the bug opened: an understanding of how to reproduce the bug. I've seen it myself, but I don't know what triggers it. -mt On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Andrea Bernabei < andrea.berna...@canonical.com> wrote: > &

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OTA-7 on bq e4.5 - first impressions

2015-10-21 Thread Michael Terry
The "three times" bug is https://launchpad.net/bugs/1429887 It's difficult to reliably reproduce and determine what's causing it. On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Alberto Pagliarini wrote: > Hi all, > > I have the same issue with the "on" button. Often I press it and nothing > happens then I pr

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] switch back to public release

2015-09-29 Thread Michael Terry
ubuntu-device-flash touch --channel=ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris.en Or whichever channel makes most sense for you: https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/ubuntu-for-devices/image-channels/ -mt On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:41 PM, rv pellarin wrote: > hi guys, > how do you change from rc-propose

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Detecting Touch apps and X-Ubuntu-Touch

2015-09-29 Thread Michael Terry
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > On 09/28/2015 02:36 PM, Thomas Voß wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Michael Terry > > wrote: > >> Ideally, we'd have a metadata flag that indicates whether the app is > >> designed for To

[Ubuntu-phone] Detecting Touch apps and X-Ubuntu-Touch

2015-09-28 Thread Michael Terry
For the pocket desktop feature, we want to be able to distinguish between native Touch apps and non-Touch apps, in order to be able to apply different lifecycle policies to them. For example, LibreOffice does not automatically save its state when it loses focus, as a good Touch app would. So we'd

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] note / evernote

2015-06-18 Thread Michael Terry
You're talking about on the phone? The account it wants is an Evernote account (not a Facebook one). But I haven't seen the bug you're talking about. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Wayne Ward wrote: > Im just trying to run note / evernote app on vivid > it starts but wont let me add account

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 released

2015-06-16 Thread Michael Terry
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > If download size is a concern, why are we including an update to the > first-run setup and tutorial, which no-one receiving the update -- > unless they choose "Erase & Reset Everything" -- will ever see? > > (I guess the answer is eith

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ppa pinning

2015-05-13 Thread Michael Terry
This is a great trick, but be careful not to forget that you've done this. Otherwise down the road you'll be very surprised by some apt-get dist-upgrade output. On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Kevin Gunn wrote: > Hi all, > yesterday I was doing some testing on 2 different ppa's that had package

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Bq Aquaris and Nexus 4 power button - screen wakeup issue

2015-04-16 Thread Michael Terry
The screen not turning on, but then turning on and off immediately after a second press is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/powerd/+bug/1429887 -mt On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Ari Börde Kröyer wrote: > Hi > > Here is an issue I have had since I installed Ubuntu on my Nexus 4 in >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Critical bug: Bootloop with system language set to Turkish on the Nexus 4

2014-12-03 Thread Michael Terry
(Niklas, re-reading my email, I should clarify that when I said "you", I meant "one" not you yourself.) I wasn't blaming you for this bug :) On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Michael Terry wrote: > As I commented in the bug, this is almost certainly due to a fun lit

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Critical bug: Bootloop with system language set to Turkish on the Nexus 4

2014-12-03 Thread Michael Terry
As I commented in the bug, this is almost certainly due to a fun little fact about the Turkish locale: tolower() and toupper() probably don't do what you expect when it comes to the letter i. You can find some background here: http://haacked.com/archive/2012/07/05/turkish-i-problem-and-why-you-sho

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Developer

2014-11-25 Thread Michael Terry
Hello! It can be overwhelming to find a place to help. You seem specifically interested in the phone, so I'd start by looking at the Core Apps. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/CoreApps Pick one that seems interesting to you, and it will likely have plenty of bugs in its Launchpad page. I'd think

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Questions about problems while testing

2014-10-08 Thread Michael Terry
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Nekhelesh Ramananthan < krnekhel...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is actually an issue on the phone as well. For instance if you flash > your phone using the command the startup wizard is still shown asking you > to set a password. But that password is somehow not saved

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] 3 Bugs

2014-09-25 Thread Michael Terry
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Tony Espy wrote: > > What's our story with respect to answering phone calls and locking? Should > an answered call unlock the device automatically, or should it just allow > the dialer-app to run/be displayed for the duration of the call? > > I ask because I've see

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] 3 Bugs

2014-09-25 Thread Michael Terry
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Jelmer Prins wrote: > Maybe it should be the default to hide the launcher > Design considered it, but preferred to leave it on by default. If you feel strongly about it, open a bug against ubuntu-ux and argue for a reconsideration. -mt -- Mailing list: https:/

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] 3 Bugs

2014-09-25 Thread Michael Terry
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Christian Mahlig wrote: > 1. On the locked screen, it is possible to swipe the lounger and read > informations in the panel. It is not possible to start any app or > function, but in my opinion, a locked phone don't have to publish this > informations. You can d

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] User password heads up, RFC

2014-07-25 Thread Michael Terry
Oh, and there is no UI for changing passwords yet and the greeter won't prompt you for your password if you set one with 'passwd' yet. Those UI changes are coming too, but haven't landed quite yet. On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Michael Terry wrote: > OK, this cha

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] User password heads up, RFC

2014-07-25 Thread Michael Terry
OK, this change landed! Next image will have a blank password for the phablet user, though you can use 'passwd' to set a new one if you like. Note that sudo should still work with a blank password. On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Michael Terry wrote: > Hello! I'm l

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status update: Planned changes to the developer mode/adb access

2014-07-09 Thread Michael Terry
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > ACTION (phonedations): Identify how to retrieve the lock screen state > There is a branch waiting to land into unity8 that allows this: https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/unity8/is-active/+merge/223653 Once that's in, you should be able

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status update: Planned changes to the developer mode/adb access

2014-07-07 Thread Michael Terry
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > Right, but that wasn't my question. I don't want to use a password to > unlock my phone screen. I *do* want a password for sudo use over adb. Is > this supported, or not? > Disabling sudo on pseudo-ttys when the user has no password is t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] User password heads up, RFC

2014-07-05 Thread Michael Terry
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Alan Pope wrote: > How will a user of the Terminal app, directly on the device (i.e. not > over adb/ssh/phablet-shell) use sudo? If the user has a password, they can use sudo just fine. If they don't have a password, Ubuntu denies access to sudo from any pts/ tt

[Ubuntu-phone] User password heads up, RFC

2014-07-04 Thread Michael Terry
Hello! I'm looking at enabling passwords for users in Touch. One thing this means is that we probably shouldn't keep setting the user's default password to 'phablet', since customers won't expect that. :) Before I changed the system to use a blank password by default, I wanted to give a heads u

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Programmatically unlocking Unity for testing

2014-07-02 Thread Michael Terry
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 02.07.2014, 09:21 -0400 schrieb Michael Terry: > > I helped move the logic out of phablet-tools into unity8-autopilot. I > > wanted to be able to change the script as split greeter landed without > >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Programmatically unlocking Unity for testing

2014-07-02 Thread Michael Terry
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello all, > > with autopkgtest now being able to run click tests on the phone [1] > I'd like to fine-tune the ADB setup script to require less manual > action. > > One outstanding issue is to unlock Unity before starting a test. I > know the u

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] split greeter revert

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Terry
Just a heads up, this landed in image 81! -mt On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Kevin Gunn wrote: > Hi all, > A couple of weeks ago we landed what we refer to as the "split greeter". > "Split greeter" was in effect removing or "splitting" out the greeter from > the unity8 shell process and into

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 06.06.14

2014-06-09 Thread Michael Terry
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Sam Bull wrote: > On lun, 2014-06-09 at 07:37 -0400, Michael Terry wrote: > > > > In the case of the battery indicator, it seems to not just be > > running a > > second instance, but running completely differen

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 06.06.14

2014-06-09 Thread Michael Terry
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Sam Bull wrote: > OK, so it seems the split greeter is actually causing two instances of > all indicators to be running, one on the greeter and another elsewhere. > If I clear messages from the messaging indicator, they are still present > in the other instance, wh

[Ubuntu-phone] Some tips for testing in the greeter

2014-06-03 Thread Michael Terry
Hello! So we finally landed split greeter late last week and it caused a bit of havoc this week. Sorry! I thought I might share some tips for testing with the greeter to help anyone debugging now or in the future. I'm sure there are things I'm forgetting, so just poke me (mterry) on IRC if you

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Call For Testing: Split Greeter

2014-05-12 Thread Michael Terry
Whoops, you're right. Bad copy/paste. On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Montag, den 12.05.2014, 10:04 -0400 schrieb Michael Terry: > > Hey, remember this? Almost for sure close to landing. Still silo > > 002, but now even more underw

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Call For Testing: Split Greeter

2014-05-12 Thread Michael Terry
exit $ adb reboot -mt On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Robert Park wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Michael Terry > wrote: > > Update on this! We have a new silo (002) these days. All known issues > are > > fixed. > > > >> Note that the only visual

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 06.05.14

2014-05-06 Thread Michael Terry
at 12:59 PM, Michael Terry < > michael.te...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> Chris, that was my change. LightDM already had support for looking in >> XDG_DATA_DIRS for its config files. >> >> But this specific change was moving the ubuntu-touch-session config files >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 06.05.14

2014-05-06 Thread Michael Terry
Chris, that was my change. LightDM already had support for looking in XDG_DATA_DIRS for its config files. But this specific change was moving the ubuntu-touch-session config files from /etc/lightdm to /usr/share/lightdm, so that any overrides you put into /custom would take precedence. (i.e. the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing Team 01.05.14

2014-05-02 Thread Michael Terry
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Dave Morley wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 03:34 -0600, Selene Scriven wrote: > > * Robert Park wrote:> Old issues still > present: > > > > - http://pad.lv/1306499 - Sound indicator is very laggy during > > playback. (probably important) > > I think this is

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Call For Testing: Split Greeter

2014-04-10 Thread Michael Terry
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Michael Terry wrote: > Hello! The split greeter feature is almost ready, so I wanted to get some > wider testing. > > The "split greeter feature" refers to moving the welcome screen out of the > unity8 executable and into its own process

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Mako with image 274 having reboot issues?

2014-04-02 Thread Michael Terry
I've had issues rebooting (gets stuck on google logo screen) as well as the device's wifi no longer working (nmcli device wifi list is empty). But in all cases, this has been an image that I've modified with PPA packages and such. So not a pure test. -mt On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Oliver

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Call For Testing: Split Greeter

2014-03-25 Thread Michael Terry
Oh and one more known issue: - Volume isn't shared between greeter and session because of an indicator-sound revert on desktop. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Michael Terry wrote: > Hello! The split greeter feature is almost ready, so I wanted to get some > wider testing. >

[Ubuntu-phone] Call For Testing: Split Greeter

2014-03-25 Thread Michael Terry
Hello! The split greeter feature is almost ready, so I wanted to get some wider testing. The "split greeter feature" refers to moving the welcome screen out of the unity8 executable and into its own process, managed by LightDM as a proper system greeter. (This is necessary for proper security an

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ANN: TRAINCON-0 - CITRAIN all stop starting Friday

2014-03-21 Thread Michael Terry
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Alexander Sack wrote: > On the front of data, we haven't seen much new. For instance we only > know about a single case where this "all halt" event has negative > impact; so please speak up if you are affected. > I'm trying to shepherd through the big split gree

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sharing dynamic informations between the user session and the greeter

2014-03-12 Thread Michael Terry
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Terry wrote on 10/03/14 13:48: > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas ... > >> Sorry, I was using "greete

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sharing dynamic informations between the user session and the greeter

2014-03-10 Thread Michael Terry
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Sorry, I was using "greeter" too loosely as a synonym for "login > screen", i.e. the screen that lets you choose between multiple accounts. > > Ubuntu on a phone currently does not use a login screen, because there > are never multiple

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sharing dynamic informations between the user session and the greeter

2014-03-07 Thread Michael Terry
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > But they behave very differently: music should keep playing at the > lock screen but not the greeter, the camera and mic should keep > recording at the lock screen but not the greeter, Touch apps may allow > limited access at the lock sc

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Nexus 4 dead in the morning

2014-03-04 Thread Michael Terry
I've found these instructions helpful, notably taking off any case: http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-4/312151-solved-nexus-4-wont-turn-charge.html -mt On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Pat McGowan wrote: > The Nexus 4 will do this when the battery gets extremely drained. In some > ca

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] universe vs. main packages in the image

2014-01-30 Thread Michael Terry
/me weeps On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > > by trusty release we plan to have all shipped packages on the phone in > main and fully supported, to get to this we will need a ton of Main > Inclusion Requests to be processed ... given the MIR team is really > small

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 16.01.14

2014-01-19 Thread Michael Terry
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo < ricardo.salv...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Didier Roche > wrote: > > Hey, > > > > Nice way to end the week again, we promoted an image today. #132 is the > > latest and greatest since image #121 and now the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Update from r100 to 14.04

2013-11-18 Thread Michael Terry
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Alan Pope wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Michael Zanetti > wrote: > > On Monday 18 November 2013 13:43:20 Alan Pope wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Chris Wayne > > > wrote: > >> > I know there's a way to do it on the device with system-im

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Defining Click framework(s) for 13.10

2013-09-18 Thread Michael Terry
I'm additionally specifically curious about whether qtdeclarative5-qtaudioengine-plugin can be dropped. This is the QtAudioEngine Qml plugin. It would make the MIR for qtmultimedia much easier. Does anyone actually use QtAudioEngine? No packages in the archive claim to. Here's my proposal to d

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Enabling mir on the latest builds

2013-09-16 Thread Michael Terry
Is there a way to test that my device is actually running Mir? Theoretically I shouldn't notice, so it's hard to say whether I've enabled it correctly. -mt On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Sergio Schvezov < sergio.schve...@canonical.com> wrote: > From now on, the latest builds coming in can h