Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Difficulty Sending Messages to this List (was Re: (no subject)

2016-03-20 Thread Robert Schroll
I have had a number of messages from yahoo accounts end up in my (gmail) spam foulder. Generally, Gmail says, Why is this message in Spam? It's from an address in the yahoo.com domain but has failed yahoo.com's required tests for authentication. There are (at least) two obvious things that c

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Challenge] Ebook reader

2016-02-02 Thread Robert Schroll
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:55 AM, Christian Dywan wrote: The sync branch didn't make it past proof of concept - see https://code.launchpad.net/~uonedb-qt/u1db-qt/syncWithU1 - it basically works but the code needed cleaning up when my time then was increasingly going into UI Toolkit work, and the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Challenge] Ebook reader

2016-02-01 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Rodney Dawes wrote: It was always clearly stated that the U1DB server was still up, and that it was not done via file synchronization. I'm afraid I completely missed this point up til now. I looked back at the announcement of the shutdown of Ubuntu One (not

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Challenge] Ebook reader

2016-02-01 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Neil McPhail wrote: It seems that the most useful core apps have additional apparmor blessings which are not available to ordinary devs using the default store, This is perhaps the most frustrating part of the whole experience. Beru is not fundamentally diffe

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Challenge] Ebook reader

2016-02-01 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Rodney Dawes wrote: Ubuntu One is not shut down. What was shut down was the file/music sync/streaming/storage/store services. U1DB is still up AFAIK, and Ubuntu One is still the SSO account infrastructure for Ubuntu. I was under the impression, perhaps mis-forme

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Challenge] Ebook reader

2016-02-01 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Neil McPhail wrote: The app is an ebook reader, and should be capable of displaying books in a variety of formats (epub, txt, mobi etc). It should also have a text-to-speech engine, and the displayed text should follow the text-to-speech engine in real time. The

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Syncthing

2015-12-17 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Neil McPhail wrote: One of the requirements for the Open Store submission is that the app be open source, with a link to the source used to build the app. Looking at the build documentation, this looks easier than I thought. They provide a docker build image

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Spying features in Ubuntu

2015-11-05 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Peter Bittner wrote: I've accidentally come across a Richard Stallman interview on Ubuntu. He's mainly concerned about the spying feature of Ubuntu's dash when you do a search on your device. RMS is displaying his usual flair for the dramatic. In Unity 7, sear

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] JavaScript bindings for Scopes

2015-11-03 Thread Robert Schroll
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Marcus Tomlinson wrote: We’d like to announce the release of the JavaScript bindings for Scopes. Great news! I've long wondered why I had to muck about in C++ to push JSON data from one place to another. No more! I'll be trying this out soon. Thanks, Robe

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] QML ContentStore example?

2015-10-23 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Michael Zanetti wrote: If that's not the problem, let me know. I have an example using the ContentStore somewhere around here I'd be interested in that. Can you share please? I've had a git repository sitting around with some content hub examples for

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] QML ContentStore example?

2015-10-23 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Jani Monoses wrote: I have searched in vain for an example of a minimal use of ContentStore - such that imported files do not by default end up under ~/.cache where they will be deleted from. This may or may not be your problem but: There is a bug wherein a fi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] updates through emulator

2015-10-22 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: AFAIK, yes, you cannot update the emulator. That said, I never tried toggling the update through the command line, or attempting hackery to force it through. According to the wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Emulator): To update to a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Document privacy

2015-09-21 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: I can say that the upcoming storage framework specification deals with (vastly) improving sharing as well. Is this specification available somewhere for public comment? I've been frustrated by the content hub many times, so I'd like

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 25.08.15

2015-08-27 Thread Robert Schroll
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote: Once we get a green light regarding the testing we will proceed with the promotion plan as mentioned yesterday: mako, flo and arale released tomorrow, krillin and vegetahd next week. You almost slipped this past me, but I notic

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 13.08.15

2015-08-14 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote: Well... that's the *theory*, but in practice it's sadly a bit more problematic ;) As we say in physics: in theory there's no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is. That being said, we discussed all th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 13.08.15

2015-08-14 Thread Robert Schroll
14, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote: Hello, W dniu 14.08.2015 o 03:53, Robert Schroll pisze: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote: Please DO NOT use the devel/devel-proposed channels for your phones if not needed. P

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 13.08.15

2015-08-13 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote: Please DO NOT use the devel/devel-proposed channels for your phones if not needed. Perhaps then we should stop recommending devel for those wishing to "track the latest development" on developer.ubunutu.com [1]? Although devel

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] Override user agent string in WebApp

2015-08-13 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Peter Bittner wrote: It seems like adding "push-notification-client" to the .apparmor file doesn't make push notifications work in a WebApp. Is the documentation on [1] only applicable for native apps? [...] (I must confess, I've simply added the value to the .

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] compiling and running the Telegram client telegram-cli on BQ (r24)

2015-08-12 Thread Robert Schroll
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: after changing in the file mutt.click/ubuntu-mutt-app.desktop Terminal=false the register goes fine, the icon is in the Applications but do not work :-( As far as I know, there's no way to make Terminal applications run dir

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] compiling and running the Telegram client telegram-cli on BQ (r24)

2015-08-12 Thread Robert Schroll
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: The someone should correct this page http://notyetthere.org/on-manually-creating-click-packages/ If you read to the bottom of that page, you'll see an update where it says, it’s better to just use “pkcon install-local foo.click”. I

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] compiling and running the Telegram client telegram-cli on BQ (r24)

2015-08-11 Thread Robert Schroll
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:25 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: 1) I do not have a desktop file and will look for example and modify this. Is there any naming convention for xx.desktop You can name it whatever you like, but be sure to put the correct name in the manifest file for the desktop hoo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] compiling and running the Telegram client telegram-cli on BQ (r24)

2015-08-10 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: I tried to understand how to make something install/deploy-able out of the SDK, with the help of Niklas; but I think I'm a bit far away from how to do this. If you haven't already seen it, you might be interested in this blog post [1] by

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Idea for better user experience on train/bus/car

2015-08-05 Thread Robert Schroll
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Arash wrote: Many people feel a little dizzy or nauseous when reading on a train or car. This happens because your eyes see that the phone (or book) moves up and down but your body doesn't feel that movement. I think you have that backwards -- your ears are in

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] File input in HTML5 apps

2015-06-23 Thread Robert Schroll
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Olivier Tilloy wrote: This is the HTML5 launcher not providing a file picker component, unlike the webbrowser app or the webapp container. Please file a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-html5-theme/+filebug with the info above. Thanks!

[Ubuntu-phone] File input in HTML5 apps

2015-06-22 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I've been fooling around with a HTML5 app recently, and I decided to see if an would work. I got it working on the desktop and then tried it on the browser on the phone. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it Just Works: activating the input caused a Content Hub peer picker to s

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Screen lock features

2015-06-21 Thread Robert Schroll
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: this is a bug (of which i dont know if anyone filed it yet, it was discussed plenty of times at least ...) the dimming should not happen n seconds after inactivity but n seconds before locking ... (i.e. if you set it to never it should als

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Offline routing with maps on SD-card (was Re: [Ubuntu-phone ][ubuntu-phone] Offline routing application - Publishing problems)

2015-06-20 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Frans Schreuder wrote: There is one possible fix, until the reviewers press the freakin' button "manual review approved". You might also consider submitting the version with expanded apparmor permissions to the Open App Store [1]. This is designed to be a so

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to start with Ubuntu Phone?

2015-06-17 Thread Robert Schroll
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Caesar Samsi wrote: Wow, not a peep …. I’ve been trying to find a place for help from the forums to the partner list to here. Did you not see this? On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Vincent JOBARD wrote: Hi I think the best to start is to read the doc h

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Off-topic: why not top-post?

2015-06-15 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: Fully agreed. The problem with many "modern" MUA is, that they do not support this well: - they do not offer correct citating - they put the cursor and the future signature on top (as Outlook does) - they do not offer rich edit features, o

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [ubuntu-phone] Offline routing application - Publishing problems

2015-06-05 Thread Robert Schroll
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: * should we create a restricted 'maps' policy group that allows '~/Maps' and '/media/.../Maps' like how the gallery current owns '~/Pictures'? The question then is, who is the actual owner of Maps (ie, osmscout isn't like galle

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Reviews and bug reports

2015-06-02 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, Those of you with good memories may remember a discussion I instigated back in January about adding bug reporting capability to the Ubuntu Touch App Scope. In short, I've noticed that I'm getting bug reports sent in as reviews, but without a way to follow up, I can't troubleshoot or

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How can I get hold of the downloaded pic by using the SingleDownload API?

2015-05-04 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:18 AM, XiaoGuo Liu wrote: After I have downloaded the picture, the pic resides in the download managers private directory, and I cannot make use of it in my application due to the security confinement. May I know how get I get the picture and use it? When I test it,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Screen Dimming

2015-04-27 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Christian Dywan wrote: I don't think that's the right solution because the use case is different to video. If you stop reading midway you want the screen to turn off/ lock. Unlike video you wouldn't "pause" manually. Yeah, I don't want to disable the screen lo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Screen Dimming

2015-04-27 Thread Robert Schroll
e former, how can an app tell if the screen has dimmed? Thanks, Robert On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Robert Schroll wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Ken VanDine wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-system-compositor/+bug/1437510 I have a fix proposed for that, but

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] My personal cache

2015-04-27 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Roman Shchekin wrote: Next question - when I use SingleDownload I can't see system-wide progress anymore. I have no any information about newly downloaded file - no url, no path and so on. How can I open it? Where and how must I find it? The download location

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Screen Dimming

2015-04-27 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Ken VanDine wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-system-compositor/+bug/1437510 I have a fix proposed for that, but I don't really agree with the fix. You can see my last comment on the bug for reference. Thanks, Ken and Oliver. I'll keep

[Ubuntu-phone] Screen Dimming

2015-04-26 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I just got a bug report [1] about the interaction of the OS's screen dimming and Beru's page turning. I'm not quite sure whose fault this is, so I have a number of questions. Please answer whichever was the correct one to ask (even if I didn't ask it). The basic problem is that the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] localStorage in HTML5 apps

2015-04-20 Thread Robert Schroll
n Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Robert Schroll wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Alexandre Abreu wrote: can you provide some context? I just tested on the vivid image and it works fine, I'm trying to get my Crosswords app working again. It stores in-progress puzzles in localStorage,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] localStorage in HTML5 apps

2015-04-20 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Alexandre Abreu wrote: can you provide some context? I just tested on the vivid image and it works fine, I'm trying to get my Crosswords app working again. It stores in-progress puzzles in localStorage, but these don't survive restarts. If you can let me k

[Ubuntu-phone] localStorage in HTML5 apps

2015-04-20 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, Is there something you need to do to get localStorage to persist in HTML5 apps? Values are saved during a session, but they seem to vanish when the app is restarted. There doesn't seem to be anything created in the releveant directory in ~/.local/share/. This used to work with the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Database not working on development and nexus 4

2015-04-18 Thread Robert Schroll
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Diogo Figueira wrote: Hi guys does some one tell me how to make a connection to a mysql database in qt development because when i try it out, i can't connect to my localhost.. even when i have the right code. This is not really an answer to your question, but:

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 13.04.15

2015-04-15 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote: We have a few nice news items today. First of all, we *finally* promoted a new image to the devel channel. The latest devel-proposed image (aka vivid-proposed) passed sanity on most of our supported platforms and is in overall m

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Page sections and corrupted stacks

2015-04-14 Thread Robert Schroll
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Robert Schroll wrote: I haven't managed to build a minimal test case yet. I think the only way to do this will be to tear parts out of my existing code until the problem goes away. But this can be touchy, as you probably know, since you can introduce

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Page sections and corrupted stacks

2015-04-14 Thread Robert Schroll
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Tim Peeters wrote: From the fix you proposed, it appears that selectedIndex (and sort) property is undefined some times. Are you using the value of that property somewhere in C++? The selectedIndex is -1 when there are no sections. My trick with Math.max ens

[Ubuntu-phone] Page sections and corrupted stacks

2015-04-12 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I've got a Sunday afternoon / evening / night / I-live-in-Asia-you-insensitive-clod puzzler for you. I've been working on the ebook reader Beru, and I've been getting crashes on start about 50% of the time. I'd been hoping that this was just related to launching from Qt Creator. Bu

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Disk usage in emulator

2015-04-10 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On the contrary, you were exactly right. Note that the output of 'mount' shows /dev/mmcblk0 (bind) mounted in multiple locations: Thanks, Niklas and Steve, for helping me understand what's going on here. I've created a new emulator fr

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Disk usage in emulator

2015-04-10 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Niklas Wenzel wrote: As I mentioned, I guess it is because the home directory is on the same partition as the whole root directory. What does a simple "df -h" give you? That would help verifying that. phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Disk usage in emulator

2015-04-10 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Niklas Wenzel wrote: Also check out the following stackoverflow answer which explains the difference between free and available memory: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16789805 As I said, I'm aware that these numbers aren't going to agree. But right now, /home is

[Ubuntu-phone] Disk usage in emulator

2015-04-10 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I recently made a new emulator image (r166 of devel-proposed [1]). This afternoon, I got a popup on it warning that I was nearly out of space. The problem seems to be /home. I've been downloading some files for testing, but I didn't think I had downloaded *that* much. From the ter

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Store – application order

2015-04-09 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 4:50 AM, Niklas Wenzel wrote: Until now, we've had two suggestions: the Bayesian average and the solution mentioned by Selene, where each app would get a 3 star rating by default which would be adjusted later when people start reviewing the application. As I read it, S

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Themes on the phone

2015-03-25 Thread Robert Schroll
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Alan Bell wrote: Now if there was a local lighthttpd serving up nothing but the current system theme then this would be referenceable for both local HTML5 installed apps and remote websites to respect. I don't think you'd even need a separate http server for t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Themes on the phone

2015-03-24 Thread Robert Schroll
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Alan Bell wrote: Apparently it is now best practice to scoop this up and pop it in the click package of the application rather than reference it from the file system, either way, your application is locked for all time to version 0.1 of Ambiance. If the phone g

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Debugging Online Account authentication in a scope

2015-03-20 Thread Robert Schroll
Good to know, thanks. Is there a launchpad bug I should watch about this? Robert On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: On 03/18/2015 06:06 PM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: I've replied to the issue in GitHub, but just for posterity, here's a couple of useful commands to get

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Debugging Online Account authentication in a scope

2015-03-17 Thread Robert Schroll
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Rodney Dawes wrote: I don't think hosted Google Apps accounts work yet, and you can only use actual Google accounts with the online accounts provider. The user reports importing contacts and logging into the calendar with this account. Do those use a differe

[Ubuntu-phone] Debugging Online Account authentication in a scope

2015-03-17 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I recently got a report of an authentication problem in my Gmail scope [1], and I don't know how to debug it. I'm hoping that some of you will have some tricks. The user reports that they are asked to log into Google and grant permissions to the scope, but get sent back to the login

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Scopes default store behaviour

2015-03-16 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Rodney Dawes wrote: But users may not consider that to be the main focus. If as a user, I do not want to use scopes, and am looking for apps, I shouldn't have the app hidden from me, because I'm choosing to only view the apps in the store. The store interface is

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Content Hub Questions

2015-03-10 Thread Robert Schroll
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:52 AM, David Planella wrote: If you scroll to the bottom of the page you'll see a link to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-brand-guidelines/+filebug. I see. There's enough white space at the bottom of the content that I don't think I ever scrolled down enough to s

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Content Hub Questions

2015-03-09 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Ken VanDine wrote: Currently you can register as a handler for everything, all actually only exists in the QML bindings for getting all peers. This could complicate things just a bit, but thinking ahead for convergence we might have a good use case. Please fil

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Content Hub Questions

2015-02-24 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Robert Schroll wrote: 1) The content seems to be silently dropped if there's already a file with the same name in the destination folder. It doesn't seem to check whether the files are the same; it just drops the file being imported and returns t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Content Hub Questions

2015-02-19 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Ken VanDine wrote: We use the HubIncoming as a cache to allow access to the file when a ContentStore[1] wasn't set on the transfer request, and will get purged automatically by the service. If you specify a ContentStore, the file will get copied to the locati

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Content Hub Questions

2015-02-19 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: # LP: #1293771 # Since fd delegation doesn't exist in the form that we need it at this time, # content-hub will create hard links in ~/.cache/@{APP_PKGNAME}/HubIncoming/ # for volatile data. As such, apps should not have write access to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Content Hub Questions

2015-02-19 Thread Robert Schroll
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: Hard links are treated as different paths in apparmor so for a file with 2 links, you may have rules for both or either to access the file. Once it passes the LSM (AppArmor) it should behave as you expect (eg, if one app is allowed 'w'ri

[Ubuntu-phone] Content Hub Questions

2015-02-18 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I've been trying, and largely failing, to understand the content hub. But I've managed to crystallize my ignorance into questions, so maybe y'all can help me out. I'm starting with a content importer, and I've gotten to the point where I can receive the ContentItem from another app.

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

2015-02-05 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Daniel d'Andrada wrote: There's already a rotation lock option accessible either through the indicators panel or through the system settings app. On https://github.com/rschroll/beru/issues/38, Stuart Langridge wrote: I think it's better to have this in the app,

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

2015-02-02 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Kevin Gunn wrote: If there is no orientation preference, no modification is needed and the application will simply support all orientations. Will applications be able to lock rotation to the current orientation? This has been a requested feature for Beru. If y

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Beru no longer runs from Qt Creator

2015-02-02 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:15 AM, Benjamin Zeller wrote: Yes, thats required. QtCreator needs to find out which hooks will be provided by the click package in the end. We can not just check the project files for binaries and use those as base for the runconfigs. Not every binary may be represente

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Beru no longer runs from Qt Creator

2015-02-01 Thread Robert Schroll
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: I hit that with my project also. Apparently absolute paths no longer work in .desktop files. Beru is using relative paths when building click files (with -DCLICK_MODE=ON), so that's not the issue. Dan Chapman figured out the problem a

[Ubuntu-phone] Beru no longer runs from Qt Creator

2015-02-01 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I've been banging my head against this for quite a few hours and am getting nowhere, so maybe someone out there can help: Sometime in the past few months, Beru [1] has lost the ability to be run from within Qt Creator. When I hit the run button, it compiles, makes a click package, an

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Reviews and bug reports

2015-01-22 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I've been traveling and haven't had the time to push this as much as I'd like. But Sam Segers's recent email reminded me that this is still a problem. So: Thanks to everyone who has been offering criticisms and suggestions. As you rightly point out, there are many ways in which my

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Reviews and bug reports

2015-01-06 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: When designing anything that involves multiple people, an important use case to consider is: What if someone is a jerk? [...] A reviewer usually can't predict, ahead of time, whether a particular developer will be like that. So eithe

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Reviews and bug reports

2014-12-29 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Niklas Wenzel wrote: One other point to keep in mind: If a user has an Ubuntu One account, it doesn't mean he has enabled it for use with Launchpad. I think you buried the lede here. Can someone fill me in with more details? What has to be done to enable a U

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Reviews and bug reports

2014-12-27 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Robert Schroll wrote: So I'd like to hear from other developers, would you find this useful enough to turn on for your projects? I asked about this on G+ [1] and got a mild positive response. It's hardly conclusive, but it's enough for

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Reviews and bug reports

2014-12-20 Thread Robert Schroll
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Sergio Schvezov wrote: Your best bet here is silent or recoverable errors reported to errors.ubuntu.com with enorugh info for you to fix in the background. Does this include errors from click packages? If so, how do I find them for my click packages? Thanks

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Reviews and bug reports

2014-12-19 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Victor Thompson wrote: This requires more 2 way communication and the ability to respond to ratings. Or maybe just simply obsoleting things regarding older platforms or development releases. I think the two-way communication is crucial. I have a review/bug r

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Reviews and bug reports

2014-12-19 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: That seems to be conflating two meanings of "good". For developers, getting lots of *high ratings* is important. For users, getting lots of *informative reviews* is important. Granted, but please remember I brought this up to explai

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Reviews and bug reports

2014-12-18 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Sam Bull wrote: See my proposal for the feedback app. If we use a webapp that uses UOA to login to launchpad, then the support link for the app can be handled by the webapp and open straight to the bug reporting page for that app. First, there is no support

[Ubuntu-phone] Reviews and bug reports

2014-12-17 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I don't know if this is the proper place for this discussion. If it's not please reply with the correct list and I'll send all follow up messages there. Looking over the reviews of my apps [1], I notice that several of them aren't actually reviews -- they're bug reports. Unfortunat

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Feedback and Bug App

2014-12-16 Thread Robert Schroll
Let me play devil's advocate here. This isn't because I think it's a bad idea (I think we need more feedback, in general), but because I think this proposal needs a bit of tightening to give us a worthwhile product. Firstly, I don't see anything here that requires an app. All of this could

[Ubuntu-phone] [Oxide] mix-blend-mode

2014-12-05 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I want to use the new CSS mix-blend-mode rule in an HTML file displayed in an Oxide webview. It works in Firefox by default, but in Chrome I need to enable the "experimental web platform features" flag. In Oxide, it does not work. Is there a similar flag to set in Oxide, or is this

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Scopes] Easy (?) questions

2014-11-23 Thread Robert Schroll
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Michi Henning wrote: Better still, intltool should accept valid .ini syntax. We can always dream. However, even if intltool fixes this promptly, it won't make it into existing releases without an SRU. In contrast, the project templates can be updated in the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Scopes] Easy (?) questions

2014-11-23 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Robert Schroll wrote: 2) Is there a way to mark strings in the settings.ini file as translatable, and then to put those strings in the installed settings.ini file? For the record, I ended up stealing the mechanism of from the YouTube scope. Other than

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Scopes] Easy (?) questions

2014-11-20 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Sam Segers wrote: I have set up something in my app PLACES scope. This is roughly based on the click scope. Most interesting are: https://github.com/labsin/places-scope/blob/master/data/CMakeLists.txt https://github.com/labsin/places-scope/blob/master/po/CMakeLi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Scopes] Easy (?) questions

2014-11-19 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Michi Henning wrote: 3) Is there a way to put text in the emblem, rather than an image. Right now, I'm using SVG images to fake it, but the alignment and font size is noticeably off. I don't think this is possible at the moment. Is it worth submitting a b

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Scopes] Easy (?) questions

2014-11-19 Thread Robert Schroll
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Michi Henning wrote: 2) Is there a way to mark strings in the settings.ini file as translatable, and then to put those strings in the installed settings.ini file? There is a mechanism with some tools built around gettext. I believe Pete may be able to comme

[Ubuntu-phone] [Scopes] Easy (?) questions

2014-11-19 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I thought I'd give y'all a break from picayune questions about online accounts with some hopefully easier questions about scopes: 1) Can a setting be disabled based on the behavior of another? I have two boolean settings, but the second only has an effect when the first is enabled.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Scopes questions

2014-11-19 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Michi Henning wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Rodney Dawes wrote: I do think 100ms is probably to fast, personally. 300ms would be much better, and on par with average users. I'm happy to file a bug about this, if you can tell me which project to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Scope] Failure to authenticate with online accounts on recent emulator images

2014-11-19 Thread Robert Schroll
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: Against #1. I actually think that the service type parameter should be removed from the constructor, as all the needed information can be obtained by reading the .application file. Reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Scope] More authentication questions

2014-11-19 Thread Robert Schroll
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Marcus Tomlinson wrote: Its really up to you where you want to query the oa_client. Once the OA backend has requested and given you an access token, subsequent calls to retrieve statuses from oa_client will have negligible overhead (In fact, even re-instantiati

[Ubuntu-phone] [Scope] More authentication questions

2014-11-18 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I'm completely confused about how I should handle authentication over the life of my scope. I'll try to explain my specific problems below, but if you think it's best to ignore those and give me an overview of the recommended approach, that'd be great too. My scope [1] uses Google o

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Scope] Failure to authenticate with online accounts on recent emulator images

2014-11-18 Thread Robert Schroll
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Robert Schroll wrote: Note that the documentation for the OnlineAccountClient API [1] describes service-type as 'The type of service (E.g. "sharing")', while the developer guide [2] uses the RDN for the service type in the XML file. I

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Scope] Failure to authenticate with online accounts on recent emulator images

2014-11-17 Thread Robert Schroll
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: I suspect that there might be something wrong with the parameters you pass to the OnlineAccountsClient constructor: indeed, the service-type parameter there should not be "email", but the same value you have in the element of your .serv

[Ubuntu-phone] [Scope] Failure to authenticate with online accounts on recent emulator images

2014-11-17 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, As some of you may know, I'm working on a Gmail scope [1] that uses the online accounts Google account for authentication. This works (sporadically) in RTM image 5 on the emulator, but I have been unable to get it to work with images 6 or 7. Specifically, the scope creates an Online

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Scopes] Responding to preview actions

2014-11-11 Thread Robert Schroll
CannedQuery::to_uri()) as an uri of your result and that should fire off your new query when you activate the result. Pawel On 10.11.2014 10:06, Pawel Stolowski wrote: Hi Robert, n 07.11.2014 20:37, Robert Schroll wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Pawel Stolowski wrote: I think you&#x

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Scopes] Responding to preview actions

2014-11-07 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Pawel Stolowski wrote: I think you're experiencing https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-scopes-shell/+bug/1335761 That'd seem to be the problem. Good to know it's not my fault for once. One more question on this subject: Is it possible to intercept

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Scopes] Responding to preview actions

2014-11-07 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Michi Henning wrote: You set the "uri" attribute with builder.add_tuple(). That tells the shell that you want that uri to be activated when the button is pressed. Don't set the "uri" attribute, and your activate() method is called as expected. Aha! I had forg

[Ubuntu-phone] [Scopes] Responding to preview actions

2014-11-06 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I'm trying to understand how to have a scope respond to the user's activation of a preview action, by running a new query for example. This only documentation I've seem on it is in the API docs, and that's not entirely clear. I don't understand the difference between ScopeBase::perf

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Scopes questions

2014-11-03 Thread Robert Schroll
Thanks, all, for the helpful explanations. I think I'm finally starting to grok what's going on with scopes. I need some time to digest everything you've told me, but I'll be back with more questions soon. One comment: There seems to be several reasons to prefer asynchronous behavior, but t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Scopes questions

2014-11-03 Thread Robert Schroll
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Rodney Dawes wrote: There should be a short delay (~100ms) already, after the last key was pressed, before the query is sent. Maybe this needs to be closer to 300ms or so, as typing on the phone can be pretty slow, unlike typing with a real keyboard. If you are fi

[Ubuntu-phone] Scopes questions

2014-11-03 Thread Robert Schroll
Hi all, I started playing around with scopes and have run into a few questions. If there's a better place to ask about this, please let me know. Otherwise: 1) Is it possible to delay a query until the user hits "Enter"? Or failing that, until a second or so has passed from the last key str

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ANNOUNCEMENT: Vivid and ubuntu-rtm landing procedures

2014-10-26 Thread Robert Schroll
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Rodney Dawes wrote: But I don't see any way for supporting multiple different framework versions in an app, on a system that is designed to be a single rolling release. I've asked this before [1], but I've yet to receive a satisfactory response: What about

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