Re: "Big picture" design one release cycle ahead?

2012-10-28 Thread David Talmage
On Saturday, October 27, 2012 10:55:37 AM Björn Balazs wrote: > ... > Let's get in touch with our users - try to understand what is working > good and where improvements are needed, as part of the preparation of > the next sprint. And after the sprint, let's again talk to them and > see if we manag

Re: sum up of yesterday IRC meeting

2012-10-28 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday, October 26, 2012 16:46:52 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > so yes, sebas is working on syncing w/owncloud Yep :) g...@github.com:sebasje/mirall.git the plasmaclient branch. If you want to try it: build the owncloud csync dep (docs on owncloud.org how to build the client), and then instead of t

Re: Android Apps (Re: "Big picture" design one release cycle ahead?)

2012-10-28 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, October 28, 2012 18:09:11 Clemens Toennies wrote: > Is there anyone in KDE who knows how such a compatibilty layer could be > done and capable of doing the work? yes. step 1 is getting dalvik packaged for Mer: http://code.google.com/p/dalvik/ i'll send you an email off-list to

Re: Android Apps (Re: "Big picture" design one release cycle ahead?)

2012-10-28 Thread Lamarque V. Souza
Em Sunday 28 October 2012, Bogdan Cristea escreveu: > On Sunday 28 October 2012 18:09:11 Clemens Toennies wrote: > > Is there anyone in KDE who knows how such a compatibilty layer could be > > done and capable of doing the work? > > I could imagine Blue Systems to sponsor this specific project if t

Re: Android Apps (Re: "Big picture" design one release cycle ahead?)

2012-10-28 Thread Bogdan Cristea
On Sunday 28 October 2012 18:09:11 Clemens Toennies wrote: > Is there anyone in KDE who knows how such a compatibilty layer could be > done and capable of doing the work? > I could imagine Blue Systems to sponsor this specific project if there > is any volunteer with a sound plan. That could be

Android Apps (Re: "Big picture" design one release cycle ahead?)

2012-10-28 Thread Clemens Toennies
Am 28.10.2012 14:39, schrieb Inge Wallin: I know that Aaron likes to say that "we can't play the number-of-apps game" but I think that the lack of apps for will be seen as a big problem for this group even though it's not strictly a problem for their intended use in itself. ah, but we don't nee

[Bug 309138] Virtual Keyboard (the widget called Keyboard v1.0, not kvkbd) doesn't display Arabic quite right.

2012-10-28 Thread Christoph Feck
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309138 Christoph Feck changed: What|Removed |Added Component|general |Keyboard Assignee|unassigned-b...@kd

Re: "Big picture" design one release cycle ahead?

2012-10-28 Thread Inge Wallin
I was starting to write a point-by-point answer but then realized that we agree on nearly everything. You clarified a couple of points that I agree with but didn't elaborate on in my last post. Just one thing (see below): On Sunday, October 28, 2012 14:10:10 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Sunday, O

Re: "Big picture" design one release cycle ahead?

2012-10-28 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday, October 28, 2012 12:22:39 Inge Wallin wrote: > So who are the intended users? what i do want to avoid is a system that is really good for the 3 groups you listed (or whatever specific market segment(s)) and not great for the rest of humanity. there are many reasons for that, but witho

Re: "Big picture" design one release cycle ahead?

2012-10-28 Thread Inge Wallin
On Saturday, October 27, 2012 10:55:37 Björn Balazs wrote: > Hi Thomas, all, > > to stress your words: I think best practice for doing usability work > in an Agile Context is to extent the current sprint in both > directions. Not only the next sprint needs to be prepared, also the > results of the