Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Where to buy a phone?

2016-05-05 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Wouldn't it make sense to check with BQ about that then? They are offering you a discount. Check with them if they have a ubuntu phone that you can use the discount on. On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Gareth France wrote: > On 05/05/16 19:30, Rodney Dawes wrote: > >>

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Apps I would like ....

2016-04-20 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Barry, On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Barry Drake wrote: > On 20/04/16 10:47, Barry Drake wrote: > >> Another one I'd like to see is a satnav. I'm not aware of an open source >> one, but I've written a message on the navmii q page asking if they will >> consider

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] small suggestions for uNav

2016-04-09 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi there, We have been working hard at uNav 0.58 which should hopefully be released next week with tons of performance improvements and overall polish. So if you thought the current store version was fast, wait for the update :D. > 1) While moving the app wrote a red line of the movement over

[Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu SDK Docker Images

2016-04-05 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi, I am wondering if anybody in the community uses Docker images for Ubuntu Touch App development. I briefly searched online and it seems there are some good docker images available for trusty at https://hub.docker.com/r/phablet/ubuntu-sdk/. But before I begin to investigate more, I am curious

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to check if internet is connected

2016-03-20 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi XiaoGuo, Thanks a lot for your code. It is very simple and self explanatory to go through and understand. I was very excited to test it on my phone, since for applications knowing whether you are on 3G or Wifi really helps them be smart about their network usage. A common example, is a Podcast

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Dekko few question / misleading / hard to get into clock alarm after update

2016-03-05 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi, Regarding the clock issue, we're looking into it. Sorry about that. We will try to push a hot-fix update to fix just that next week. Cheers, Nekhelesh On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 at 08:51 Krzysztof Tataradziński wrote: > Hello, > > I've started to use Dekko as my e-mail

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] New palette coming, are you ready?

2016-02-26 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Zoltan, It turns out that all apps still using Ubuntu.Components 1.2 are badly affected by this change. Is it possible to retain the original palette colors for apps using UC 1.2? Few default apps like Tasks-app are also affected as a result. Granted we do have a month before OTA-10 is out,

[Ubuntu-phone] Which channel should be used for Ubuntu Emulator?

2016-02-10 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi, I installed a fresh copy of 14.04 a few days and was slightly disappointed to see the brand new SDK tools promoted at https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2015/11/19/here-comes-brand-new-ubuntu-sdk-ide-tools/ not working anymore in 14.04 [1] [2]. So I resorted to using the Ubuntu Emulator,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 05.02.16

2016-02-06 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
;> Its a total nightmare specially when your on a support call :( >> Pllease,fix asap >> >> >> Wayne n Saturday, 6 February 2016 06:28:16 UTC, Nekhelesh Ramananthan < >> krnekhel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Lukasz, >>> >>> I agr

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 05.02.16

2016-02-05 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Lukasz, I agree with Jelmer as well. The phone is current unstable w.r.t making/receiving calls after upgrading to OTA-9 where Unity8 just reboots in the middle of a call. And this happens for atleast 8 out 10 calls. This issue is really critical since it affects one of the main functionality

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 released

2016-01-28 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Lukasz, I am unable to get the update for my BQ device. I keep getting the message that no updates are available. I have am the regular stable channels and haven't made the device writable or anything of that sort. it is a pristine phone with no modifications done. I have had similar issues

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 released

2016-01-28 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hello, I was able to debug and solve the issue with pat and michael sheldon on irc. I left comments on https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1508081 regarding the issue. By setting the auto-download option to always download in the system-settings-app, I was able to get

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sreen in Console don't moves

2015-06-27 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
@Niklas, oh wow I didn't know that until today. I think it would be nice for terminal app to show that as a introduction similar to what we had in the contacts app for swipe actions. On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 at 23:56 Niklas Wenzel nikwen.develo...@gmail.com wrote: What do you mean by move? If you

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [ubuntu-phone] Star ratings

2015-06-25 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi, It is already possible to edit your ratings in the rc-proposed images. Not sure when it will land in the stable images. My best guess would be OTA-5, but can't be sure. Cheers, Nekhelesh On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 at 09:28 Frans Schreuder fransschreu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, It appears to me

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Developer support

2015-06-19 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hello everyone, Actually Ubuntu SDK *does not *disable the UI Designer. This was something that I brought up in the Malta Sprint and was told that it cannot be disabled easily by the SDK devs. May be this should be stated clearly in the documentation on developer.ubuntu.com. The UI designer is

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] battery 83% to 0% in 1 hour of not using the BQ

2015-05-01 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Michael, Can we expect this fix to be part of OTA 3.5? Cheers, Nik On Friday, 1 May 2015 17:36:32 CEST, Michael Zanetti wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think we have identified this issue and have a proposed fix for this. It seems to be related to this bug report

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] BQ phone performance

2015-04-22 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Simon, On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Simon hamfil...@gmail.com wrote: TL;DR: Ubuntu Touch on the bq phone feels annoying slow, is that normal? I am using the bq phone as my main phone for a while now. I immediately upgraded to r21 when the phone arrived and am now on r22. A pretty

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Static chroots for SDK

2015-03-02 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Riccardo, This script compares the old method of chroot creation with the new method. So when you got the output Create click chroot I suspect it is trying to create the chroot the old way which would mean it has to download 1.7 GB of data. I agree that the verbose output of the script can be

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Various issues release #6 on mako

2014-11-06 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
the two in the volume overlay, but the mechanism itself works fine. On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Nekhelesh Ramananthan krnekhel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ari, On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Ari Börde Kröyer ari.kro...@online.no wrote: Hi I updated to this release OTA from #5

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Various issues release #6 on mako

2014-11-05 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Ari, On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Ari Börde Kröyer ari.kro...@online.no wrote: Hi I updated to this release OTA from #5 on October 18th. I use my Nexus 4 every day at work and at home, and have done so for the past month. Below are some issues I have encountered. I am posting them

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

2014-10-28 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Rodney Dawes rodney.da...@canonical.com wrote: On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 18:10 +0200, Nekhelesh Ramananthan wrote: I know and agree, but that is a limitation which will prevent me from improving the clock app further. Let me provide an example to explain

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

2014-10-24 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Lukasz, I am curious as to how core apps which are currently distributed as click packages in the ubuntu touch store can accommodate the process you described. For instance in the clock app, we currently have trunk where all the development (features and bug fixes) go into. While it is easy to

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

2014-10-24 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Sergio Schvezov sergio.schve...@canonical.com wrote: On viernes 24 de octubre de 2014 10h'03:01 EDT, Nekhelesh Ramananthan wrote: Hi Lukasz, I am curious as to how core apps which are currently distributed as click packages in the ubuntu touch store can

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 17.10.14

2014-10-17 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Niklas, I can confirm that my mako updated from #4 to #5 via the regular OTA and worked fine. On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Niklas Wenzel nikwen.develo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I cannot update from image #4 to image #5 on mako using MultiROM. Did anyone else who does not use MultiROM

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] Popover pointing to header buttons

2014-10-10 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Robert Schroll rschr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Giorgio Venturi giorgio.vent...@canonical.com wrote: Yeah, I totally agree with Tim, that's the recommended way of dealing with sorting filtering options That does look nice.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Questions about problems while testing

2014-10-08 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Michel, I am glad that you are using the Ubuntu Touch Emulator. It is definitely better in terms of performance and reliability compared to what it was before. I can answer few of your questions that you had, - on startup wizard, i can choose any login method (swipe, pin code, secret

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Application icons in the Ubuntu Store

2014-09-19 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Alejandro, please paste to paste.ubuntu.com. We do not have access to your list :) On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Ian Nicholson i...@binaryash.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/19/2014 01:38 PM, Roman Zonov wrote: I have no access to the list. I do not

[Ubuntu-phone] Clock App Reboot Release

2014-08-27 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi everyone, Today we replaced the clock app with a rewrite that has been in the works for about 2-3 months called *Clock Reboot*. Clock Reboot was in the stores for some time now as a tech preview. The feedback from the early testers were overall positive and found it to be a good improvement

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Clock App Reboot Release

2014-08-27 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Thnx :-) It is the same project. The trunk lp:ubuntu-clock-app now points at the clock reboot code. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help :

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] frameworks: seeding U1DB and libcurl ?

2014-08-21 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi, I have a few apps that also use U1db for storage mechanisms and know plenty more 3rd party apps that require it. The clock app in the phone images also require it. Why are we removing it? U1db is used to store not just app settings, but also app data in general which QT setting is not suited

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SDK

2014-08-18 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Mitchell, It is not possible to say what's went wrong without seeing some error logs. However I suggest you take a look at http://developer.ubuntu.com/start/ubuntu-sdk/using-device-kits/ which shows how to run your app on your phone, emulator and desktop. Hope it helps. Cheers, Nekhelesh On

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] USB Tethering now available with image 181

2014-08-11 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi, Woohoo USB Tethering! I guess it would makes sense to have such an option on the developer mode page (and have it similarly tied to the password mode as the developer mode toggle switch will be) I think it is more appropriate for it to be in the wifi and cellular settings panel since

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Preferred Settings API for Ubuntu apps

2014-08-07 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Karni, Yes the decision has been made. Check out https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg09350.html for more details. Cheers, Nekhelesh On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Michal Karnicki michal.karni...@canonical.com wrote: Hi guys, Have there been any decisions/activity in the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 29.07.14

2014-07-30 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi, With regards to the clock app, On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Selene Scriven selene.scri...@canonical.com wrote: - Alarms play at the same time as music, and the default sound is a bit quiet, so it might not even be heard. Hmm this is new. I will create a bug report to track

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 29.07.14

2014-07-29 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi, Actually what's up with the emulator and the phone images having different version numbering? I was at first surprised to see #150 on the emulator when at the time the phone image will still at #148 or 147. Cheers, Nekhelesh On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Michał Sawicz

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Settings API

2014-07-25 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Sam, I think what you are looking for is https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+spec/sdk-app-settings. However this is still a work in progress. Until this is finished, you might want to consider using U1db to store your data persistently. That's what I am doing in the clock app.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Are the menus in Ubuntu-SDK gone?

2014-07-12 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Peter, The menu should be present. Are you missing the Build menu item or the entire Qtcreator menus? If the latter, you might want to check if you have the package *appmenu-qt5* installed on your system as it enables the global menus for qt5 applications. If this doesn't work, please specify

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Are the menus in Ubuntu-SDK gone?

2014-07-12 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
desktop. Let us know if that works. On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Robert Schroll rschr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Nekhelesh Ramananthan krnekhel...@gmail.com wrote: The menu should be present. Are you missing the Build menu item or the entire Qtcreator menus

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Allowing Apps to control the screen display

2014-06-04 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Thomas, In the night mode, I would not expect the screen to stay bright. I think the design team's intention was to clearly differentiate between the different clock modes. Besides in the Night Mode, the clock hands will still use the proper colors, it will be just the background of the app

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 20.05.14

2014-05-22 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi, On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Bill Filler bill.fil...@canonical.comwrote: On 05/21/2014 05:14 PM, Chris Gagnon wrote: There is no qtpim testplan, QA will review the testplan when one is created. Probably a good starting point for qtpim test plan would be to run all of the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 15.05.14

2014-05-15 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi, ** Clock flaky test (Julien, Bill) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-clock-app/+bug/1307458 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-clock-app/+bug/1314533 - Still some flakyness, 1 test failure left! Is there someone from Julien's team who could take a look at this one? Or from popey's

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 28.02.14

2014-03-01 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi, 2. Clock apps flaky tests (Nicholas + QA team?) Nicholas is off today and has still 2 bugs on the list (see his answer on the ML yesterday). Mathieu is going to reach the QA guys to help unblocking that one. I got some news on this from the clock app side. So as Leo mentioned in his

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Clock App Alarms Review and Current Status

2014-01-09 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
A quick update to the work items. The work item concerning Waking/unlocking the device when an alarm notification appears (similar use case as a user receiving a phone call) will be handled by Thomas Voß. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to :

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Clock App Alarms Review and Current Status

2014-01-07 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Ted Gould t...@ubuntu.com wrote: 5 was also completed for 13.10. https://code.launchpad.net/~charlesk/indicator-datetime/lp-1233176/+merge/190009 It seems that the Alarms API and the datetime user service are unfortunately not connecting. Work on that is

[Ubuntu-phone] Clock App Alarms Review and Current Status

2014-01-06 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
. The different pieces of the Alarms implementation are, 1. EDS Backend - *Complete* (Renato Filho) 2. Alarms API to interact with the backend - *Complete* (Zsombor Egri) 3. Alarms Page in the Ubuntu Clock Page to add, edit, list and delete alarms - *Complete (v0.1)* (Nekhelesh Ramananthan

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] U1dB Documentation and Advice

2014-01-06 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Jamie, It is my understanding that U1db is the recommended technology for developers for things like settings in QML apps (aiui, QML/C++ developers might choose QSettings instead). Actually when it comes to storing application settings/preferences for QML apps, the SDK developers are in

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] U1dB Documentation and Advice

2014-01-05 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi everyone, So I have been spending my entire weekend trying to figure out U1dB-Qt and trying to create a sample test program, I did some of this work with Andrew Hayzen from the music app team. While we did succeed in implementing some basic functionalities like static and dynamic document

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] location of screenshots from ubuntu sdk

2014-01-04 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
The bug was for phablet-tools, as such, the script is installed as phablet-screenshot on the latest phablet-tools. Thanks. I tried phablet-screenshot filename.png and it works as expected. However is it the plan to connect the Qtcreator ubuntu plugin to phablet-screenshot? If yes is there a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] U1dB Documentation and Advice

2014-01-04 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi David, On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:34 PM, David Marceau uticdmarceau2...@yahoo.cawrote: I do believe you are highly mistaken. I am a bit confused as to which statement of mine you were referring to here. My best guess would be my statement about there being only two storage options which are

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] location of screenshots from ubuntu sdk

2014-01-03 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Sayantan, When Ubuntu Touch used Surface Finger as the display driver, the screenshot utility in Qtcreator used to work as expected. However ever since the switch to MIR was made, I haven't been able to get it to work. I was pointed to a script which you run on the desktop with the phone

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] location of screenshots from ubuntu sdk

2014-01-03 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Maguro is actually the Galaxy Nexus (which is my phone, as luck would have it). Switching back to surfaceflinger is a good way to get screenshots. It's pretty likely that the emulator provided for Ubuntu 14.04 will make that a much more convenient way to get screenshots and video. Thanks

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Access XML file in ~/

2013-12-30 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi, I think you can read any XML with XMLListModel. I think the issue you should be worrying about is the app permission. I am pretty sure that you wouldn't be able to access files outside your app folder without additional permissions. So whether you use C++ or QML XMLListModel, the issue would

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] What component should I use?

2013-12-07 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Sam, From a developer's point of view, you can use Lable or a ListView with ListItem.Standard. If you are using Lable, add a MouseArea{} to the Label which will then fire signals such as onClicked{}, onPressed{} etc etc where you can define what needs to happen. For example, Label { text:

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] auto update not working (14.04)

2013-11-25 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Sayantan, I read your instruction on Muktware and checked out the app on the play store. It seems like an easy way to get both android and ubuntu touch on your phone. Nice work! @Oli, Check out https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tassadar.multirommgr on the play store. It makes

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [qml] Importing moment.js

2013-11-22 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Sam, On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Sam Bull sam.hack...@sent.com wrote: Does nobody have any idea how to get a Javascript library working in QML? Or, any other ideas how to handle good date formatting? I would expect this to be quite important in several of the core apps and other

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu SDK simple touch ui

2013-11-01 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Kurt, I have noticed that issue as well. When I run the .qml file, it open a blank window. However on resizing the window, I can see the UI then. I am not sure what causes it. Cheers, Nekhelesh *Nekhelesh Kandasamy Ramananthan TU Delft / M.Sc Aerospace Engineering* Profile Controls and

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Changes to the core apps test environment

2013-10-05 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Nicholas, As you mention above that the Jenkins environment now uses the latest SDK version in the archive, are you referring to the latest trunk build which may not have been released as an update to Saucy yet? If yes, I am wondering how do I go about getting latest version of the SDK on

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] [Design] Responding to orientation

2013-04-29 Thread Nekhelesh Ramananthan
Hi Florian, Thanks for that. However on interchanging the width and height to simulate the landscape orientation, I noticed that the core apps like Weather, Clock, Calculator etc do not adapt well to the new orientation. Is there sample code we core app developers could look at to get an idea on