Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ssh connection is lost

2016-12-30 Thread Stephen M. Webb
Libertine, which has no problem on an 8 GB Nexus 4 like the ones I have, and *is* the recommended way. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Mo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Unity8 Desktop Session

2016-11-04 Thread Stephen M. Webb
e of your installed system. [1] https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/stable-phone-overlay -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More hel

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] error during libertine container creation-turboo

2016-09-20 Thread Stephen M. Webb
your device (ironically, you can use ssh to "connect remotely" from the Terminal App, so you do not need a second computer). [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/libertine/+bug/1607083 -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-pho

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] GLUT

2016-09-16 Thread Stephen M. Webb
would use the chroot to develop and test your application. When you're happy with it, you would package up the application and bundle and additional dependencies into a click and distribute it that way. Since Qt5 is already on the phone, the download size would not be unusually large if that

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] GLUT

2016-09-14 Thread Stephen M. Webb
com/questions/749848/additional-libraries-in-ubuntu-touch-libpng-libfreetype-etc > And anyway, would it make a difference in performance on the device to > use a different tk than qt? No. Applications in Ubuntu run on the bare metal, not on some abstract virtual machine. There is nothing specia

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] GLUT

2016-09-14 Thread Stephen M. Webb
want to use graphics acceleration on mobile devices, you must use OpenGL|ES. OpenGL|ES is supported by most modern toolkits including Qt and libSDL. The last update to GLUT was over 16 years ago, it is not a modern toolkit. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-p

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Resize and Move Windows in Xapps

2016-09-03 Thread Stephen M. Webb
it fixed soon, though it seems not to be on > libertine bugtracker [1]. As I understand, it means > it's either not actually related to libertine (e.g. is a Mir bug) or wasn't > yet reported. It's not a bug in Libertine, XMir, or Mir. Window management is simply a featu

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] unity 8 / x apps

2016-08-31 Thread Stephen M. Webb
eally handy and they cant be run > from anywhere i know ... https://bugs.launchpad.net/libertine-scope/+bug/1617545/comments/9 -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launc

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] RW

2016-08-12 Thread Stephen M. Webb
perience is you will not stop getting daily updates, but you might lose other functionality (eg. on-screen keyboard) if you do any kind of an apt upgrade in RW mode. You are safest using a chroot or a libertine container. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] gedit/software store

2016-07-28 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 16-07-28 03:40 AM, Marcin Xc wrote: > With OTA12 gedit disappeared from my M10. Also from the Store. I tried to > find some simple text editor but didn't succeed. > Is there no simple text editor available? Try swiping left until the Desktop Apps (XApps) scope appears. -- S

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] screen shot / clipboard tool / screen capture

2016-07-26 Thread Stephen M. Webb
to be able to start the screen shot from a > SSH session. While I'm not sure how the keys do the snapshot (it could be an internal call inside Unity 8 grabbing a frame or something) the command line to grab frames from an ssh session is "mirscreencast". It has a --help optio

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] screen shot / clipboard tool / screen capture

2016-07-26 Thread Stephen M. Webb
ll also work on your Desktop. It's > one code to rule them all! Do you mean Vol+ & Vol- takes a screenshot? All it seems to do on my phone and tablet is change the volume - -- Stephen M. Webb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] screen shot / clipboard tool / screen capture

2016-07-25 Thread Stephen M. Webb
tive (non-default) login session on the 16.10 ISO. There are still some big blockers standing between now and that goal though, so it's not an official commitment just a reasonable target to focus on. Your testing, and everyone else's testing of Unity 8 on desktop is an invaluable

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] screen shot / clipboard tool / screen capture

2016-07-25 Thread Stephen M. Webb
ndly by any stretch of the imagination. Heck, it's not even expert-developer friendly, I would argue. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] unity 8 help

2016-07-24 Thread Stephen M. Webb
alendar so i expect its missing a > package maybe? Possibly. I'd have to let someone who knows more about those specific apps answer, but you may end up needing to file bugs against those individual packages as well, if it turns out they're making invalid assumptions about where they

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] No xapps?

2016-07-20 Thread Stephen M. Webb
ls (see https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/devices/installing-ubuntu-for-devices and scroll down to "Upgrading manually"). DO NOT use --wipe or --bootstrap and your data will be safe. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Puritine update

2016-07-13 Thread Stephen M. Webb
to the previous version of the package installed on your device. One of the experts on that needs to chime in here: I certainly couldn't find the how-to with a Google search. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lis

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Why UT is not ready

2016-07-11 Thread Stephen M. Webb
No disconnects when switching, full functionality. If I had a bluetooth keyboard with real MX Cherry Blue keys I could use it for all my remote admin and development work. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscr

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OTA-12-rc and r130

2016-06-30 Thread Stephen M. Webb
heir own scope so they can be aggregated back in when that work is done. Eventually, this change will appear to be reverted but with the option of filtering out XApps. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Get root access

2016-06-20 Thread Stephen M. Webb
27;s an even better choice . By the way, we're working on a successor to the Terminal App that should make this much easier to snap/click things like mc. - -- Stephen M. Webb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXaAxqAAoJEAoP+EW32zQnyYYP

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Fame via Ubuntu and intriguing design choices

2016-06-16 Thread Stephen M. Webb
actions can take place instead, and you can just throw your pointer against the left and top edge to find the less-frequently-used Dash button. Or move your thumb down to the bottom of the screen. Theory is great and all, but they way it works right now feels good. I like feeling good. -- Stephen

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Fame via Ubuntu and intriguing design choices

2016-06-16 Thread Stephen M. Webb
ing on a desk in front of them, Fitt's law puts that point at the top. Convergence means the software appears and reacts the right way for the current configuration. Change the configuration, change the way the software appears and reacts. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ota revision number and app scope

2016-06-01 Thread Stephen M. Webb
ou're going to have to wait until some of the serious issues with running X apps on Unity have been addressed (like proper content sharing and multiple window support). -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launch

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] some theme hackery for libertine apps on the M10 tablet

2016-05-18 Thread Stephen M. Webb
th Libertine and Puritine (the libertine container bundled with the M10). - -- Stephen M. Webb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXPGOaAAoJEAoP+EW32zQn6TkQAM+e2qg+XtO4fhuQjyyXuE20 i8zfZvnBS3I4GaJBNTm/ABF/App2IaOvIN52d4XM2ieqXRVYOnDc8l4y3DTl+vDW nEqJ

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Bug in Libertine

2016-05-18 Thread Stephen M. Webb
3/dist-packages/libertine/Libertine.py", line 284, in > __init__ > from libertine.ChrootContainer import LibertineChroot > ImportError: No module named 'libertine.ChrootContainer > > Am I missing a Python lib, or something else? Yes, you're missing a package, but only becau

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

2016-05-13 Thread Stephen M. Webb
and modifying the .desktop file is what you need to do until OTA-11 comes out and the Libertine scope appears in the Ubuntu store. After that, it's automatic. You might want to remove the NotShowIn line. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting a GNUstep application to the M10

2016-05-13 Thread Stephen M. Webb
and use the tools that are there for the purpose. [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yJepibh68YaQijWO3Z3dWTtTTmzXnMmEE8eswhUXzw4 -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https:/

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] M10 Libertine

2016-04-28 Thread Stephen M. Webb
r and reading your passwords and banking information as you enter them. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Libertine - user folders

2016-04-28 Thread Stephen M. Webb
gs should be the normal case and not the exceptional afterthought. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Libertine - user folders

2016-04-28 Thread Stephen M. Webb
n > anything. I currently can only open docs from withi. Libreoffice. Are there > any workarounds for this? This is, unfortunately, still on the backlog for tasks left to do. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Citrix Receiver on BQ M10

2016-04-28 Thread Stephen M. Webb
a 16.04 desktop running Unity 8). The Citrix receiver has been tested and verified as working in a Libertine container on ARM devices. - -- Stephen M. Webb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXIf9cAAoJEAoP+EW32zQnBbkQA

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pocket Desktop Images

2016-04-28 Thread Stephen M. Webb
ed, because it turns out they'd make the image too large to flash on the device. > I have been using the images for a few months now expecting firefox, > libreoffice and gedit to start working. > > Am I missing something? Yes, the actual apps. That's the '

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design]: Color changes in OTA 10

2016-04-27 Thread Stephen M. Webb
switch to desktop mode). If you're requesting individual apps and scopes have a transparent background by default, that's another story. You will probably need to talk to the individual app developers. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] (Aquaris M10) First Impressions/Experiences/Warnings/Questions/Suggestions

2016-04-25 Thread Stephen M. Webb
cation's X window (which is effectively how cut-and-paste works in X11 today). The complication means it will be more secure, but will take longer to develop and test. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpa

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Additional legacy apps with Libertine on M10 Tablet

2016-04-22 Thread Stephen M. Webb
application launch infrastructure that have been in the queue for a while and so additional close attention must be paid during the QA process. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https:

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Aquaris M10 FHD Ubuntu Edition

2016-04-21 Thread Stephen M. Webb
(a toshiba) it works. ? Try a different HDMI cable. Seriously, I have run into this problem with various devices and various monitors. It seems there are combinations of device/cable/monitor that just don't work, and the symptom is usually exactly what you describe above. -- Stephen M.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu tablet

2016-04-19 Thread Stephen M. Webb
p/+bug/1543351 -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

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

2016-04-19 Thread Stephen M. Webb
odel is no better than trying to mimic Microsoft Windows accurately. Those are great OSes with nice interfaces for what they do, but neither are convergent and neither are better than Ubuntu, they're only different. Embrace the difference. - -- Stephen M. Webb https://launchpad.net/~b

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Anyone else lose Slimport HDMI Output? Nexus 4 OTA-10.1

2016-04-14 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 2016-04-14 04:27 PM, bruce wrote: I have a Nexus 4 running OTA-10.1. I also have an older Acer monitor with a DVI input. I use an Accel Slimport adapter, connect to an HDMI to DVI adapter and connect that to my Acer monitor. This worked under OTA-9.0 and 9.1. I didn't try it under 10.0. It no

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ANN: CI Train dual-landings now targeting vivid-overlay and xenial-overlay

2016-04-11 Thread Stephen M. Webb
and will be deploying it in the nearest time. > Along with this we'll also be enabling the landing-team-changes+1 [1] > mailing-list for xenial-overlay landings. How does this work with the Y archives not yet opened? -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubu

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] PPTP and Libertine apps

2016-04-05 Thread Stephen M. Webb
can do what you want and we do this in testing all the time, but out of the box you can not install arbitrary untested desktop software yet. VNC has been tested and it works. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.ne

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Libertine

2016-03-24 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 16-03-24 06:27 PM, lgd wrote: > > (EE) > Fatal server error: > (EE) Unrecognized option: -title > (EE) > XMir has closed unexpectedly That indicates you have an old version of XMir. You need at least version 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu0.1~overlay9 on your phone. -- Stephen M. Webb

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Libertine

2016-03-24 Thread Stephen M. Webb
ll from are newer (it's a constantly moving target and in the process of integrating the required changes). There may be a missing dependency in which XMir does not get pulled in automatically. I'm not sure what the status of that bug is in the various packages floating around. -- Ste

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Libertine

2016-03-24 Thread Stephen M. Webb
m. I typed 'Firefox' in the search box and got several screensful of candidate packages. Eventually you will be able to do this through a converged Ubuntu Store app, but those days are not these days yet. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~u

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Libertine

2016-03-24 Thread Stephen M. Webb
till early days in terms of integration into the phone ecosystem, so expect a rough ride for the near term. All that should change soon enough. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Question about convergence

2016-02-27 Thread Stephen M. Webb
s is still up to developers. TL;DR Yes, same code, it's just a matter of the compiler. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] 32 bits apps on the M10 tablet

2016-02-05 Thread Stephen M. Webb
e to do the same on your phone, but the experience without the external monitor and mouse is frustrating at best. We do not recommend it under those circumstances, which is why we have not made it generally available. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ph

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] 32 bits apps on the M10 tablet

2016-02-05 Thread Stephen M. Webb
he CPU but the userspace runtime is effectively the same 32-bit armhf runtime we use on other Ubuntu Touch devices. tl;dr you will be able to run the same 32bit arm applications on it. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] anybody used libertine

2016-01-31 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 2016-01-31 01:31 PM, Wayne Ward wrote: Hi has any body setup libertine or know were there is any places to help set it up ? I installed the app but couldnt get it do much? There are a couple of patches to the infrastructure software coming soon that allow Libertine aapplications to launch p

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ubuntu apps on convergance

2016-01-26 Thread Stephen M. Webb
e is unlikely to be completely satisfactory. It's your phone, you can do what you like, but you can't say you weren't warned. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Hdmi cable

2016-01-12 Thread Stephen M. Webb
thing? The phone uses the Mir display server. Yes, you could in theory use the CPU to copy rendered frames from the GPU out to the USB port. You would need specialized software on both ends and your framerate would likely be less than satisfactory. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: http

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Resizing rootfs

2016-01-12 Thread Stephen M. Webb
general public consumption. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

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

2016-01-11 Thread Stephen M. Webb
ess these > things on their own. We can't stop developers from writing crappy software. What we can do is not aid and abet them. We need APIs for feature detection. Apps need feature detection. Apps don't need "system mode" detection. We don't want apps to have &

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

2016-01-11 Thread Stephen M. Webb
top as separate entities. I can turn my phone into a desktop at any time, and I have laptops I can turn into a tablet at any time. There is only one Ubuntu Personal. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscr

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

2016-01-11 Thread Stephen M. Webb
iting bad code and breaking things in a highly undesirable way. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Spying features in Ubuntu

2015-11-06 Thread Stephen M. Webb
further advance their extremist causes. In some cases their contribution is a valuable counterbalance to certain tendencies in technology, but it turns out not everything you read on the internet is completely true or even useful for leading a rewarding and productive life. -- Stephen M.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ANNOUNCEMENT: Dual-landings and devel-proposed now using the overlay

2015-10-02 Thread Stephen M. Webb
overlay packages to the new series. That means that at this point most projects are going to need to branch their repos for Wily, otherwise their Ubuntu packaging branches will get out of synch with Ubuntu. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Power a BQ 4.5 from a raspberry pi

2015-09-12 Thread Stephen M. Webb
e Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_On-The-Go for a detailed description. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Unity8, Mir & LXC for Xapps update July 10, 2015

2015-07-12 Thread Stephen M. Webb
pplications in a segregated sandbox on a sufficiently capable Mir-based Unity8 system. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OPEN BETA: CI Train Spreadsheet Replacement

2015-07-09 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 15-07-09 08:52 PM, Robert Park wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Robert Park wrote: >> On Jul 9, 2015 4:01 PM, "Stephen M. Webb" >> wrote: >>> This is deliciously slick, but what would improve it big heap dealie would >>> be to make some of th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OPEN BETA: CI Train Spreadsheet Replacement

2015-07-09 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 15-07-09 07:15 PM, Robert Park wrote: > > On Jul 9, 2015 4:01 PM, "Stephen M. Webb" <mailto:stephen.w...@canonical.com>> wrote: >> >> On 15-07-07 06:26 PM, Robert Park wrote: >> > >> > 8. Reply to this email with any concerns/bu

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OPEN BETA: CI Train Spreadsheet Replacement

2015-07-09 Thread Stephen M. Webb
bution, Series) and have the lander's nick automatically added by default to the Lander field. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More hel

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ongoing] Issues with CI Train Spreadsheet

2015-03-18 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 15-03-18 05:19 AM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote: > Once I feel better I'll also try > to add some optimizations to the old cow. Just out of curiosity, is there any new messaging on the replacement for this temporary tool other than "the beginning of 2

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Please, consider reflecting on the Canonical Contributor Agreement

2014-12-28 Thread Stephen M. Webb
accepted into a Canonical-led project. That's the best way to guarantee fairness for everyone. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status of CI Services - December 15, 2014

2014-12-16 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 12/15/2014 05:38 PM, Francis Ginther wrote: > > What’s still down: > - The bootspeed and unity7 testing desktops are still offline due to an issue > with power. Is there an ETA on this? -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to :

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Terminal Reboot in Click store

2014-12-05 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 12/05/2014 10:50 AM, Alan Pope wrote: > > We still have work to do, but would appreciate feedback (and patches). > Some of the big "to do" items we know of which include:- Are there debs so we can test it on the Unity 8 desktop? -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: ht

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Help needed with protobuf transition

2014-12-04 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 12/04/2014 06:56 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 06:54:02AM -0500, Stephen M. Webb wrote: >> For Compiz, I'll be organizing a landing today (if possible) for other >> reasons. > > Thanks. That will automatically build with libprotobuf9, but it wo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Help needed with protobuf transition

2014-12-04 Thread Stephen M. Webb
t; library packages so can be ignored for this purpose.) > > Should I just rebuild these directly in vivid-proposed, or could > somebody organise a silo with no-change rebuilds for these? For Compiz, I'll be organizing a landing today (if possible) for other reasons. -- Stephen M. Webb

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Plans for early development of Convergence/Desktop Mode

2014-11-24 Thread Stephen M. Webb
ly depend upon it - > running under app armor restrictions? Would love to see that this cycle. Yes, there are indeed plans for just that. Hopefully a first stab this cycle to capture all the edge cases early. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Bluez 5, PulseAudio 6, and ALSA 1.0.28

2014-09-17 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 09/17/2014 08:08 AM, David Henningsson wrote: > I suspect we want the ofono backend on Ubuntu Touch and native on the desktop > (right?). We need to deal with this somehow. Yes, because there's only one Ubuntu archive. Compile-time selection is not an option. -- Step

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to query the type of device in use?

2014-08-13 Thread Stephen M. Webb
a 2 Pro it tells me I'm on a "Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro". Obviously the API is there to get that information, perhaps that's what should be displayed as the "About this Phone" instead of the work "Phone." -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] What's the right way to get "qmlscene" to work out of the box?

2014-08-13 Thread Stephen M. Webb
al: > https://code.launchpad.net/~timo-jyrinki/kubuntu-packaging/qtchooser_qmlscene_fallback/+merge/230595 Is this the problem we had on the Unity 8 desktop some months ago that we solved it by explicitly replacing 'qmlscene' in the .desktop files with 'qmlscene -qt=5'? What

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-Desktop-Next] Not launching on MSI WIND u100 - Intel GMA 950 +Intell Atom n280

2014-07-29 Thread Stephen M. Webb
cted to a more appropriate place if necessary. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8-desktop-session -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OEM and Operator overrides

2014-06-06 Thread Stephen M. Webb
tem functionality. Also, is there a way to have a different list for different experiences? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to see a Dialer or SMS app when I don't have a phone radio in my tablet or desktop, or a Camera app when I don't have a camera. -- Stephen M. Webb

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Renaming to: Ubuntu App Launch

2014-05-23 Thread Stephen M. Webb
es that seem like what you're expecting? apt-cache rdepends upstart-app-launch on a stock 14.04 LTS gives me a much larger list than that, and I'd expect that to be a subset of Utopic. I haven't seen any related MPs against unity8-desktop-session source for example. Has y

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Customized Upstart Jobs/Overrides

2014-05-05 Thread Stephen M. Webb
ll supported are Android properties on non-Android systems like the Ubuntu desktop? -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] autopilot dropping Python 2 support very soon!

2014-05-02 Thread Stephen M. Webb
How does this affect the extensive use of Autopilot/Python2 in the desktop Unity 7 stack? On Friday, May 2, 2014, Barry Warsaw wrote: > As you may be aware, we are transitioning autopilot to Python 3 by default so > that we can remove Python 2 from the touch images. The key to this is to > compl

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing process, restoring "trunk" for development

2014-04-08 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Alberto Mardegan < alberto.marde...@canonical.com> wrote: > I think that Alexander summarized it quite well, but to try even a > shorter version, the only differences from today are: > 1) At the end of the CI train, when a branch lands into an Ubuntu > archive, the

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

2014-03-26 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 03/26/2014 05:06 PM, Robert Park wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Stephen M. Webb > wrote: >> Hmm, I was unaware the particular velocity and distance of a swipe changed >> its meaning. It seems this "long swipe" >> works to go Home when an app is

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

2014-03-26 Thread Stephen M. Webb
ience you tend to use gestures when they're available because it just makes more sense (try using a non-touch system after a while a see how frustrating it is to have buttons drawn on the screen that do nothing but leave smudges when you press them). Don't assume users of a converged Ubu

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

2014-03-26 Thread Stephen M. Webb
ge to a desktop-oriented UI the Microsoft's celebrated Windows 8 so successfully does? - -- Stephen M. Webb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJTMtczAAoJEAoP+EW32zQnMG8P/jzoy5j

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

2014-03-26 Thread Stephen M. Webb
discovered it yet. I've only had the phone for a few weeks. Other phones and tablets I have used have a button I can press to get back to a home screen. I think it would be a bad design to never be able to get to a safe known location from anywhere. - -- Stephen M. Webb -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Qt 5.2 - Events are queued when rendering blocked

2014-03-26 Thread Stephen M. Webb
egular part of the release cycle, the fact that Qt 5.2 does not even render using Mir on the desktop (lp: #1295309) would have been noticed before it was made the default in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubun

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

2014-03-10 Thread Stephen M. Webb
rent beasts with quite different requirements. Oh, yes, both authenticate identically, but really that's where it ends. I would really strongly suggest that the two should be designed to have a different appearance so that they can be easily distinguished at a glance (different things should look

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu

2013-10-04 Thread Stephen M. Webb
of touch-screen pcs > working with Linux. The 3- and 4-finger touchscreen gestures are and continue to be fully supported in desktop Ubuntu. They work on all my touchscreen PCs. No additional touch support for the desktop is planned for Ubuntu 13.10. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Reporting and tracking user facing bugs in Unity Next

2013-04-09 Thread Stephen M. Webb
ugs in the previous software, and vice-versa). Long run, the projects are set to converge. Only problem is there is a manual effort required to assign new bugs to the different series, and our experience is that humans err. -- Stephen M. Webb -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubunt