UI Hildon Desktop: We wanted the latest hildon-destkop code from upstream into gutsy and worked to get this to happen, but in the 11th hour we weren't able to verify and fix all the issues. Many thanks to Loic Minier for his help getting together. We did updated hildon-desktop to add some small patches to show the volume and brightness controls in the statusbar. We are now in a position to relook at hildon-desktop and do some cleanup, etc. Grid-layout / HTML: HTML version of UI in gutsy is simple but functional. Still needs rework to remove the mobile-basic-flash/applications directory and add a "MobileApp" category (or something similar) in the normal .desktop file Clutter Home Screen: Moving forward and will get some focus this week. Still has too many bugs to be usable. Theme: See status in Peter's email. Apps Media Viewer: Working version into gutsy with some new graphics. Our misunderstandings of how theming and images should work have delayed a more beautiful solution, but we're making headway. Still fixing many bugs and misunderstandings in how we want it to look/behave. Suggestions welcome on media player. Design and Look/Feel: If we are going to have applications with a common look/feel, simple ,finger-friendly navigation, and be polished and professional looking (NOT open source application look), we are going to need to dedicate real time to improve core applications. We need to agree how to get to this stage. Until then our collection of apps looks quite ad hoc. Overall, a big thanks to Matthew Garrett who patiently helped us get our components into gutsy. We are planning ahead now so we don't require such last-minute help in the next release. Bob
________________________________ From: Spencer, Bob Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 8:54 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: UI and Apps Status Another JIT status report UI Grid-layout / html Home Screen: Working now. Recognizes theme and background change. Requires hildon-theme-mobile-basic for button button background graphics. Still to be done: - Set the default theme as this UI reads the theme from gconf and currently UME default theme is the non-existent Human theme. - show some small animated gif when application is launching - listen for notification when application has completed launching to turn off animation - Request upload into gutsy If you install the latest mobile-basic-flash package from moblin.org you will get this UI by default. Clutter Home Screen: Have got it working on my Q1 after getting the hardware accel driver. Clutter 0.4+ libraries have been included in gutsy Current issues: - Touch screen isn't sensitive enough to give me the light iPhone touch feeling. I often have to use my fingernail to grab the objects - UI is jerky. When you try to roll the objects left/right they stall, then burst. - actor objects often get misplaced and then bunched at the beginning - location highlight at the bottom of the screen is misplaced - big animation look a little to Apple-MAC like. We'd like to get it to look more like a rolling ring of icons - the /etc/xdb/menus/*.menu file doesn't match well with our applications. We need to add a "MobileApp" category to applications and filter them for showing on the home screen - when launching the applications the code to detect if it was successfully launched is imperfect Theme: Chatted with Ken about theme. He is highly frustrated with our current status and apparent miscommunication. Need to resolve how to get something in the short term and then fix the long term process issues. Bug with current flash UI: We found and fixed the performance but with the flash UI. Media Viewer: Have new graphics we are trying to put into application/UI. Many new features working now including thumbnail view. Other comments: - I built LPIA build again this and still no Hildon Claws. We put a couple of guys on this to try and get a last-minute upgrade of basic features and it would be nice if we could see the Hildon version in our images. From last week's To Do: 1) Get Grid-layout UI usable. Any day now. I assumed it would be yesterday but ran into small bugs around changing the background repeatedly. Should checkin today. (Done) 2) Make sure we resolve the performance bug. Hopefully this goes away with the non-flash UI. We will still try to resolve, but it will fall to a lesser priority. (Done) 3) Go through remaining UI elements and finish bug fixing for gutsy launch. Mainly: marquee needs tweaking, theme needs to be completed. (Still in progress) 4) Start work to get clutter UI to a usable state so people can start commenting and we can discuss the exciting post-gutsy future of the home screen! (Lots of work ahead) Bob
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