[Ubuntu-phone] Week 23 in Unity API team

2015-06-05 Thread Thomas Strehl
What we've done over the last week: - Unfortunately no landings as vivid was still closed and we aiming for dual landings. The next couple of days will see landings of all our piled up stuff including go bindings to create aggregators. - Further thumbnailer testing ensuring no regressions. Had a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Scope previews

2015-05-29 Thread Thomas Strehl
Hi, On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Mitchell Reese wrote: > Firstly, thanks to all the devs working on the scopes - they've come a > long way and are getting really usable. Secondly, the search and display of > local scopes on a device needs work. > > Currently I can swipe up from my phone to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Scopes default store behaviour

2015-03-13 Thread Thomas Strehl
On 03/12/2015 11:52 PM, Mitchell Reese wrote: > Hi folks, have just published a scope and associated webapp for OMG > Ubuntu, and found a less-than-optimal experience. A scope and bundled > webapp is not 'scope centric' in the store. Basically, when installing a > scope with an app as 1 click pac

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Scopes questions

2014-11-03 Thread Thomas Strehl
On 11/03/2014 10:29 PM, Robert Schroll wrote: > >> However, when a new query is sent to the scope, the old query has >> cancel() called on it. You may need to add additional code to close the >> connection to the server, or similar, when you receive the cancel call. > > Presumably a scope could

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update

2014-10-30 Thread Thomas Strehl
Last week(s) was really about bug fixing and by now we've fixed almost all super critical bugs (not all landed though). Second priority has been on improving test coverage or rather system/integration testing for indicators and scopes. While developing scopes we saw that quite some developers wher

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update

2014-10-09 Thread Thomas Strehl
The last week was only about bug fixing. The more noticeable issues have been: - work in process to click package local music and video scopes - added songkick to music aggregator and reordered the aggregated scopes - major bug fixing around SIM unlocking, with that all criticals for unlocking shou

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update

2014-09-11 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes Adding functionality to improve OA sign-in is fully implemented and in silo testing. Should be landed tomorrow. With that we're feature complete and are now focusing solely on bug, usability and performance fixing. On payments side we got the first QA review completed which raised a couple

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update

2014-09-04 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes last outstanding feature is still the OA sign-in where we hit some more difficulties. However, we should be good now and expect a silo with it for tomorrow. Album art extraction from music files has landed and should help us to limit the network traffic as well as speed up displaying those.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team: convenience list of ubuntu landings not yet landed in ubuntu-rtm

2014-08-27 Thread Thomas Strehl
> > > -- LIST START -- > > Title: strip translations, import them into Launchpad, move to langpacks > Owner: pitti > Included sources: messaging-app > Included packages: > messaging-app > to 0.1+14.10.20140825-0ubuntu1 > > Title: Support accented characters in access point names, fix >

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update

2014-08-27 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes we finally managed to land all missing features in utopic (merging to RTM as we speak) with one exception, that is the OA sign-in that is expected for later this week. Focus is now fully on bug fixing and possible optimizations like album art extraction from music files. Talking about media

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update

2014-08-20 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes late last week successfully test landed features (location data, scope settings, offline notifications, scope favoriting) into RTM branch, now in the process of relanding into utopic (will happen as soon as we leave traincon0). Work has started on the last missing RTM feature, that is prope

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update

2014-08-14 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes Providing location data, scope settings, offline notification and scope favoriting has entered the ci/landing process and we expect to have that in by tomorrow at latest (some of the UI might only come next week depending on how quickly we get reviews done). Framework functionality to enab

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update

2014-07-31 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes about to finish and land the last features. Among those are providing location data for scopes, information about connectivity status or exposing a cache directory. We're aiming to land those API changes (additions) plus another API break as early as possible next week. Next week we'll als

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Closing apps heads up!

2014-07-31 Thread Thomas Strehl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/31/2014 12:57 PM, Dave Morley wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:41:58 +0100 Micha? Sawicz > wrote: > >> Hey all! >> >> With the advent of Qt compositor, we are now able to (and will >> soon) remove the "Recent" category from dash Apps scope. T

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update

2014-07-23 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes all about finishing the last features and polishing (scopes). Most notably we identified the root cause for slow scope startup, we're now about 500-600 msecs faster for an aggregator scope. Also, we fixed the problem of local scopes not being able to provide a custom header image. Those fix

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] old bug round-up

2014-07-21 Thread Thomas Strehl
On 07/21/2014 10:10 AM, Selene Scriven wrote: > It has been a while since I re-checked a lot of our phone bugs, > so I tested them on image Utopic 140. Here are the results, in > no particular order: > > New bugs: > > - None of the indicator settings menu items actually launch > their

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update

2014-07-11 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes no big feature completed during last week, but we landed the settings backend and also the API for categories expanding to full scopes. Providing scopes with location information is still work in progress. Payments saw quite some bug fixes to make it more stable, but we're not quite there

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 10.07.14

2014-07-11 Thread Thomas Strehl
> > - On first boot, music and video scopes didn't show any local > files, and the music player claimed there was no music. I > think the MTP server crashed during first boot and didn't > recover. This might be related to my image-flashing script > pushing files to the devi

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update

2014-07-03 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes image cache has been landed today. The go bindings are now fully up to date including department support. Bigger outstanding todos are: - Settings: not fully finished yet, supporting remote scopes is missing but expected to be done early next week. - Category expansion [chevron right next

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update

2014-06-24 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes We finally landed departments and with that bumped the scopes API version to 0.5. With that the somewhat bigger outstanding todo items for RTM are: - Settings: implementation is half way through, expecting to land next week. - Image cache: will be specific to Unity 8 shell, so no general U

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update

2014-06-13 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes As we don't want to break scopes ABI frequently we decided to batch those changes to make scopes developers' live a little bit easier. However, that also means that we haven't really landing bigger new feature on the device for last couple of weeks. That will change next week by introducing

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 15.05.14

2014-05-16 Thread Thomas Strehl
On 05/16/2014 09:37 AM, Selene Scriven wrote: > * Ɓukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote: >> ... > > Image 32 came out today too. I had mixed results. > >> ** using wrong icon for 3G connections >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-network/+bug/1319812 > > I currently see no icon a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Unity8 & Mir updates May 13, 2014

2014-05-14 Thread Thomas Strehl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/14/2014 11:41 PM, Micha? Sawicz wrote: > On 14.05.2014 19:20, Oliver Grawert wrote: >> well, even on a supported device scrolling through the availablle >> apps is a bad experience since we don't seem to manage to cache >> the icons locally yet

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update wk 19

2014-05-09 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes Scopes config and registry are almost fully done. With that we can reliably (re-)start scopes or shutdown idle scopes after certain time out. Missing is still the automatic detection of newly installed scopes (via click). This is something we'll be working on next week. To enable scopes to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 16.04.14

2014-04-17 Thread Thomas Strehl
> > ** New scopes performance needs to be improved (Kevin for unity8 and > Thomas for unity-scopes-shell) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1297197 > This explains most of the chopiness and some temporary lagginess we have > seen in the Unity 8 UI past weeks with the new scop

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Scopes for ubuntu touch, part feedback

2014-04-15 Thread Thomas Strehl
On 04/14/2014 09:14 PM, sampth kumar krishnan wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got a couple of questions regarding the new scopes that have landed > in ubuntu touch > > 1. In the previous version of scopes, searching for any music from the > music scope gave me results from soundcloud and groo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 14.04.14

2014-04-15 Thread Thomas Strehl
> > - App scope search only displays two results. That's by design. If you want to see more results, you'd have to click on the category to expand and show all results. Thomas -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 01.04.2014

2014-04-02 Thread Thomas Strehl
> > ** Multiple crashes on images since the scope transition (Saviq/Thomas) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1297240 (Saviq) -> > in progress > -> Upstream is able to reproduce some now and some fix is under way. > It seems as well that any application crashing can make Uni

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update wk 13

2014-03-25 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes Finally, the new scopes landed on the device. Functionality wise they are more or less on par with old scopes, however some functionality is now accessible in a slightly different way due to the removal of home scope and introduction of scope scope. The landing of the new scopes only marks

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 20.03.14

2014-03-20 Thread Thomas Strehl
On 03/20/2014 06:34 PM, Didier Roche wrote: > * Alarms not going off reliably on recent touch images (Thomas S.) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/+bug/1295122 > -> it was first thought to be due to deep sleep mode (which wasn't a > regression). However, more testing

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update wk 9

2014-02-26 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes Functionality wise we pretty much on par with 13.10. Plan is to finally switch the image to new scopes beginning/mid of next week. Outstanding issues are related to AP adjustments, improving developer documentation and scope testing capabilities as well as some more bugfixing. Speaking of

[Ubuntu-phone] Unity API status update wk 6

2014-02-05 Thread Thomas Strehl
Scopes Not a lot of visible progress over the last week as we still haven't landed the ported music and video scopes. We started working on the scope scope to show and query for available scopes. On click scope side we're helping Roberto's team as best as we can. >From a backend/infrastructure po

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Displaying infographics in Unity 8 from 3rd party apps

2013-09-05 Thread Thomas Strehl
Hi Michael, with libusermetrics we have an API for that. Documentation is available at http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/devel/ubuntu-13.10/cplusplus/usermetrics/. HOWEVER, the approach we currently take to generate infographics might still change post 13.10. So, we don't give any warranty on the A