Re: [Ubuntu-phone] access accelerometer

2013-02-26 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 26 February 2013 20:27:58 Aswin Thomas wrote: Hi all, At present is there anyway I can get raw accelerometer data? Is there a sensor package/API I can look at? There is probably still some stuff missing on the backend side, but in general you can use those packages: libqt5sensors5

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Galaxy Nexus running Ubuntu Touch has a higher temperature than when running Android OS

2013-02-27 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hmm... does not happen with my Galaxy Nexus. Turning the screen off it stays on for at least 2 days. Ok, probably still worse than Android but not too bad for a dev preview imho. Could you guys please log in via ssh and check with top if there are any processes going wild? Thanks, Michael On

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [App] WhatsApp for Ubuntu Phone (alpha)

2013-03-04 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Saturday 02 March 2013 11:21:52 Matthias Gehre wrote: Pretty nice. Does it integrade with the os? Like contact list and the messages app? I'd like to do that but I wonder if the contact list and message app are already implemented or just mock ups? The telephony app uses a real

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Music app.

2013-03-04 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, I'm in. I already wrote my own Music player for the N9 [1] because the integrated one didn't satisfy my needs (and was closed source so I couldn't contribute in fixing them). I would be happy if we could reuse some bits and pieces, and if its only ideas or learnings on what not to do. Its

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Music app.

2013-03-04 Thread Michael Zanetti
of what you have today. Thanks for volunteering as well! Regards, Jim On 03/04/2013 11:23 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: Hi, I'm in. I already wrote my own Music player for the N9 [1] because the integrated one didn't satisfy my needs (and was closed source so I couldn't contribute

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Music app.

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Zanetti
the general structure and the source plugin API than the UI. Cheers, Michael On Monday 04 March 2013 17:23:38 Michael Zanetti wrote: Hi, I'm in. I already wrote my own Music player for the N9 [1] because the integrated one didn't satisfy my needs (and was closed source so I couldn't contribute

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Music app.

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Zanetti
change it any more. /system/bin/mediaserver consumes around 6% cpu while playmee is mostly idling during playback on the Galaxy Nexus. Haven't tried other formats or remote streams yet. Seeking in the track works fine. Cheers, Michael On Thursday 07 March 2013 21:45:22 Michael Zanetti wrote

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Music app.

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Zanetti
/07/2013 02:22 PM, Sid Payton wrote: Hey Michael, Are you working on a Xbmc remote for Ubuntu Touch? That would be great. Do you have a API to control XBMC? If so could you pass me a copy? Thanks. Am 07.03.2013 11:28 schrieb Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Why is there not a Browser or music app in the core app?

2013-03-15 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi On Friday 15 March 2013 12:03:40 Shane Guignard wrote: I was curious to know why we are not trying to create a Ubuntu browser? I have some ideas but want to know it there was a reasoning that it was not included. There is already a browser being developed. Its even preinstalled on the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Why is there not a Browser or music app in the core app?

2013-03-15 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi Please not that I have not been part of the dicision making on the browser, but I might give some ideas on why I for one would not pick firefox as the main browser for Ubuntu Touch: - Its look and feel is not made for Ubuntu Touch. In my opinion consistency is really important and having

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running QML functions in parallel thread

2013-04-16 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 16 April 2013 01:01:28 Николай Шатохин wrote: Hello. In my code I'm creating 16x16 buttons in cycle and this take few seconds. While function that creating buttons runs, app freezes. I want to show loading animation while this function runs. So, how to run this function in

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running QML functions in parallel thread

2013-04-16 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:20 AM, mrqt...@gmail.com wrote: I thought Nick creates 1024 (16x16) buttons, lol =) And even did not thought - for what :D Of course code is extremely bad, if buttons with size 16x16 pixels creating slowly. 16.04.13 12:09 Michael Zanetti написал(а

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running QML functions in parallel thread

2013-04-16 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 16 April 2013 18:54:01 Michael Zanetti wrote: As a rule of thumb, you should be able to write more than 90% of your application without the need to the work function (game logic excluded). That should have been: ... without the need to use the word function... Regards, Michael

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running QML functions in parallel thread

2013-04-18 Thread Michael Zanetti
...@gmail.com Nope, but very similar by interface 2013/4/16 Roman Shchekin mrqt...@gmail.com MineSweeper? 2013/4/16 Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com On Tuesday 16 April 2013 18:54:01 Michael Zanetti wrote: As a rule of thumb, you should be able to write more

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running QML functions in parallel thread

2013-04-18 Thread Michael Zanetti
://bitbucket.org/nshatokhin/valves.git And how to connect signals to buttons created by Repeater? 2013/4/18 Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com Doesn't look too bad... so the slowness must be either in the GameButton itself or something connected to the the fieldCreated() signal. Can

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running QML functions in parallel thread

2013-04-19 Thread Michael Zanetti
FYI: After having a chat with the SDK people, it turns out that the Button is indeed slower than it should be. I've reported this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1170638 Br, Michael On Thursday 18 April 2013 20:05:59 Michael Zanetti wrote: Wow, the slowness really comes

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Can we get rid of --desktop_file_hint?

2013-04-22 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hey Alberto, On Friday 19 April 2013 16:50:17 Alberto Mardegan wrote: Unless something changed in the latest images, Nope, hasn't changed. in order to make an application visible one needs to add the --desktop_file_hint=... parameter when launching it. This raises a couple of

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Autoupdating QML files stored in resource

2013-04-26 Thread Michael Zanetti
Yeah... I agree that in the long run most likely you'll be better off not using a qrc file for QML. However, if you really need to do so, here's a quick hack on how to make it build every time: In QtCreator open Projects and select the Build tab. Use Add build step to create a new Custom

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ebook reader?

2013-05-17 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hey, On Friday 17 May 2013 13:53:05 Andrew Fullam wrote: I was wondering if there is anyone currently working on an ebook reader for ubuntu touch? I have an empty house all weekend so I was looking to take a stab at it if no one has already undertaken the task? Doesn't look like there is one.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Call for help with MusicApp.

2013-05-21 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, On Tuesday 21 May 2013 12:53:36 Jim Hodapp wrote: There are plans in the works to most likely (though it's not for certain yet) use a piece of software written for use in Ubuntu TV. It is already fully functional as a service that will scan directories for all types of media files and can

[Ubuntu-phone] Syncing ubuntu touch with owncloud (or any CardDAV server)

2013-05-27 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, As my blog is not aggregated to planet Ubuntu and I believe this might be of interest for some people here I decided to post this here: Thanks to Rick and Sergio hinting that syncevolution would work on ubuntu touch I gave it a shot and managed to sync ubuntu phone with my owncloud

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Syncing ubuntu touch with owncloud (or any CardDAV server)

2013-05-27 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Monday 27 May 2013 14:00:58 Sam Bull wrote: On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 12:49 +0200, Michael Zanetti wrote: Thanks to Rick and Sergio hinting that syncevolution would work on ubuntu touch I gave it a shot and managed to sync ubuntu phone with my owncloud instance. Here's how you do

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] App theming

2013-06-04 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, Hmm... there might be GTK support at some point after we move to Mir. But there is no focus on GTK which means, there won't be a touch friendly theme any time soon. If you want to have your app running on Ubuntu touch, I'd recommend to check out Qt/QML. The PyQt project has released a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] System logging

2013-06-10 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hey, thanks. Yes, I can confirm that. Since a few days I noticed qml-phone-shell taking up 30% - 40% CPU too. Haven't yet seen maliit-server doing that on my phone. I've been thinking about some small daemon that would collect CPU times of apps and send that to some stats server in an

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] [RSS - Reader] Performance issue in QtQuick.LocalStorage 2.0

2013-06-13 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, At the risk that some people don't like to hear this, I would highly recommend to write the actual feed fetching and database storing part in C++/Qt and only expose a well defined model containing the RSS feeds to QML. Maybe one model per feed source or something like that. Writing all

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] [RSS - Reader] Performance issue in QtQuick.LocalStorage 2.0

2013-06-13 Thread Michael Zanetti
then c++ realization. 13.06.13 15:39 Michael Zanetti написал(а): Hi, At the risk that some people don't like to hear this, I would highly recommend to write the actual feed fetching and database storing part in C++/Qt and only expose a well defined model containing the RSS feeds to QML

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] Page stack back gesture

2013-06-14 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, In case of a deep stack app, or where the toolbar is really an important piece of the UI and must be present, I guess the developer could always do this tools: ToolbarActions { opened: true locked: true ... } Only caveat is that the toolbar can hide content and in this case the user

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MeeGo applauncherd: faster application startup and more

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Monday 17 June 2013 07:43:26 Thomas Voß wrote: thanks for bringing this up. Upstart user session will take care of single application instances and integrates with AppArmor to implement our confinement strategy (for = saucy). The interesting feature from my pov is the accelerated

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] opengl?

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Zanetti
touch's adoption that Canonical has absolutely no direct control over, but providing a sample would go a long way towards encouraging development in that area. (all of the aforementioned is, of course, my personal opinion.) On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Michael Zanetti michael.zane

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] Welcome screen suggestions

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, Interesting topic. I'm no designer, but have thought a bit about this too, lately. On Monday 17 June 2013 11:17:13 Josh Leverette wrote: Ok, I'll be bluntly honest about this. I've lately begun to wonder if the Welcome screen at current is even worthwhile. From a pragmatic perspective,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] an emergency mode ?

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, one thing to keep in mind here is that the phones will have some sort of introduction video explaining the gestures on the very first boot. So the owner of the phone most likely knows all those things and won't need such a thing. Actually, I think this can be quite annoying too if

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] rotate

2013-07-05 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Friday 05 July 2013 11:06:43 Василий Алексеенко wrote: This behavior is different from Android. While I agree that rotation is not yet working as it should, I might add that the above statement is not a valid reason to justify anything :) Stay tuned, Michael -- Mailing list:

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch Summary (week 26)

2013-07-09 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi Sergio, On Tuesday 09 July 2013 12:51:37 Sergio Schvezov wrote: - Network Manager now automatically enables the data connection. Uh... That sounds scary. At least for people without a data flatrate. Afaik there is no 3G indicator yet. How do I know if current traffic is routed through

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch Summary (week 26)

2013-07-11 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Thursday 11 July 2013 11:09:34 Bill Filler wrote: If you install latest build (saucy-39) and apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade the networking indicator has toggle switches for wifi and 3g. Yay. This is nice. Thanks Bill. Br, Michael -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch Summary (week 26)

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Friday 12 July 2013 02:39:00 Michał Sawicz wrote: W dniu 12.07.2013 01:51, Peter Dey pisze: Why not do something similar to what the Nokia N9 does? When a 3G connection its detected for the first time (e.g. new SIM inserted), ask the user whether they would like to connect

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Applications spawning other Applications

2013-07-19 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Thursday 18 July 2013 20:50:28 Michał Sawicz wrote: W dniu 18.07.2013 20:37, Thomas Voß pisze: Good point and I do agree in general, However, once we allow mime-type handling we break the strict per-app siloing of content. Not sure how to solve that issue for mime-type handling.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] [development] Some thoughts about Ubuntu touch on the Nexus 10

2013-07-23 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, homescreen == unity8 Not sure about the settings app. Br, Michael On Tuesday 23 July 2013 08:41:55 Josh Leverette wrote: I can't find the launchpad page for the homescreen. What is the name of that package? And where should I report bugs about the swipe gestures? Also, where is the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Is there going to be a standard QML UI toolkit?

2013-07-29 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi On Monday 29 July 2013 15:53:52 Andreas Poulsen wrote: I just wondered, if there is any plan to have a more general QML UI toolkit. For now, there is Ubuntu.Components, Sailfish OS has some components, and QtQuick is going to have some QtQuick.components. Could you guys talk together about

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Is there going to be a standard QML UI toolkit?

2013-07-29 Thread Michael Zanetti
Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com Hi On Monday 29 July 2013 15:53:52 Andreas Poulsen wrote: I just wondered, if there is any plan to have a more general QML UI toolkit. For now, there is Ubuntu.Components, Sailfish OS has some components, and QtQuick is going to have some

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Qt5 with Qt 4.7 on Ubuntu 13.04. How to install it both without conflicts?

2013-07-30 Thread Michael Zanetti
to create another project for Qt 4.7? Is it possible to use the same projects with different QML files and parameters in .pro file? 2013/7/30 Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com On Tuesday 30 July 2013 13:06:28 Николай Шатохин wrote: Hello. I'm using Qt5 and need Qt 4.7 now

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Qt5 with Qt 4.7 on Ubuntu 13.04. How to install it both without conflicts?

2013-07-30 Thread Michael Zanetti
. 2013/7/30 Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com Wait... Do you want to run Qt4 on Ubuntu Touch? That won't work because Qt4 requires X11 on linux based platforms which we don't have on the phone. On Tuesday 30 July 2013 13:35:53 you wrote: I don't see any qt4 package

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Qt5 with Qt 4.7 on Ubuntu 13.04. How to install it both without conflicts?

2013-07-30 Thread Michael Zanetti
://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status This is saucy now, but I used to have it running on raring too. If those packages are not in your repos, it seem like your installation is messed up. 2013/7/30 Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Can I use the internet?

2013-07-30 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 30 July 2013 16:09:05 Manuel de la Pena wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Iain Lane la...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:12:42AM -0500, Ted Gould wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 10:44 +0100, Iain Lane wrote: In implementing the Time and Date settings[0], I

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Can I use the internet?

2013-07-30 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 30 July 2013 16:50:06 Iain Lane wrote: Admittedly I didn't know about it ;-) But looking at that API reference it seems to be more about mobile stuff whereas my question is a bit more generic than that — I want to know if there's an internet connection of any type available.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Various issues with Ubuntu Touch

2013-08-02 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi On Friday 02 August 2013 16:31:37 Psypher wrote: I am wondering where to start logging bugs and issues I have found so far. The challenging part is to know which parts of the interface are still in production and which parts do not exist yet at all. Pretty much everything you see is still

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The Nexus 4 coma condition

2013-08-13 Thread Michael Zanetti
I've ran into this yesterday after leaving the Nexus 4 untouched on my desk for a whole week. I think it's worth mentioning that you need to use the original wall charger and cable to revive it again. (Of course some others might work too, but chances are high that they don't) At first I

[Ubuntu-phone] Click packages and source code

2013-08-13 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, I've just been watching this demo [1] on how to publish click packages. Looks very promising! However, one question that comes up here is at the uploading step (3:13 in the video): The website allows to upload a binary package and a source package. However, I can't see any connection

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running background services

2013-08-14 Thread Michael Zanetti
at 9:41 AM, Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com wrote: On Wednesday 14 August 2013 09:31:31 Daniel Holbach wrote: Hello, On 14.08.2013 09:29, Michael Zanetti wrote: On Wednesday 14 August 2013 09:07:52 Thomas Voß wrote: Hey Fabio, no, applications are not allowed

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The Nexus 4 coma condition

2013-08-20 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 20 August 2013 10:45:57 John McAleely wrote: On 19/08/13 15:07, Pat McGowan wrote: Can you check the output specs for the chargers? This seems to vary quite a bit. The Nexus 4 charger I have does 5V at 0.7A, the Nexus 10 charger does 2A. Would not be surprised if this makes a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Can we have something like /etc/buildstamp in ubuntu touch image ?

2013-08-28 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, try this: cat /system/ubuntu_stamp Should contain everything you need :) Br, Michael On Wednesday 28 August 2013 22:59:36 YC Cheng wrote: Hi, In certain cases, something like /etc/buildstamp is needed or sometimes waste some time to keep tracking in testing. If that's not cost too

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] how to view ubuntu phone folders from nautilus

2013-09-02 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Sunday 01 September 2013 19:54:32 Thomas Voß wrote: On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Sam Bull sam.hack...@sent.com wrote: On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 16:58 +0530, Sayantan Das wrote: Is it possible to view contents of ubuntu phone from Nautilus? Will there be any feature which will automount

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Consistency among core apps

2013-09-04 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi Andrew, very good point. I totally agree. Luckily we're doing better in other areas. For example the Calendar component is already a shared one and there are currently efforts ongoing for simple date and time pickers. So we are working towards it. This particular case is a little more

[Ubuntu-phone] QGeoPositionSource AppArmor

2013-09-07 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, I just had another go with my location based app and noticed that the apparmor policy group location doesn't seem to be enough for creating a PositionSource in QML. When trying to create one, the app terminates with the following message: terminate called after throwing an instance of

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Upcoming UI Toolkit Panel/Toolbar API changes

2013-09-11 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi Tim thanks for the heads up. On Wednesday 11 September 2013 11:11:51 Tim Peeters wrote: These changes were made recently in the UITK: * ADDED IN Panel: function open() * ADDED IN Panel: function closed() * DEPRECATED IN Panel: writable property opened. Will be made read-only. Too

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Standard icons

2013-09-13 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Thursday 12 September 2013 15:44:14 Jouni Helminen wrote: We have a set of this type of standard icons you can call via gicon, but it's still work in progress. The list of available icon visuals and names will be on the design guidelines website soon, perhaps someone else can comment on

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The current state of ssh on Ubuntu Touch

2013-09-13 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Friday 13 September 2013 17:33:47 Oliver Grawert wrote: it is currently not possible to switch on ssh in a persistent way, but with the next image in the daily-proposed channel (build number 46) this should be fixed. due to the nature of the readonly image you can not just remove the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Need picture_files policy in mg app

2013-09-15 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Sunday 15 September 2013 18:33:45 Thomas Voß wrote: [...] Hmm, I could think of lots of use cases to display pictures from the pictures folder within an app. For example image manipulation programs could import them, social media apps could want to share them (e.g. attached to a blog

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Need picture_files policy in mg app

2013-09-16 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Monday 16 September 2013 08:53:34 Sergio Schvezov wrote: On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com wrote: On Sunday 15 September 2013 18:33:45 Thomas Voß wrote: [...] Hmm, I could think of lots of use cases to display pictures from

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Combination lock implementation

2013-09-18 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, we already have some prototype implementation for this [1], started even before the videos appeared on the web. We decided to not focus on this unlocking method right now as the code is either too hard to enter (it takes you ages to input something like 2948) or is too insecure (1, 2, 3, 4

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Combination lock implementation

2013-09-18 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Wednesday 18 September 2013 15:29:39 Alexander Antimonov wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com wrote: or is too insecure (1, 2, 3, 4 is reasonably fast to enter, but too easy to guess for an attacker). How about to place digits randomly

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Combination lock implementation

2013-09-18 Thread Michael Zanetti
is way easier and faster to use than every prototype of the circular unlock screen we've come up with so far. Thanks Michal On 18 September 2013 13:14, Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com wrote: Hi, we already have some prototype implementation for this [1], started

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Defining Click framework(s) for 13.10

2013-09-19 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Wednesday 18 September 2013 16:31:51 Loïc Minier wrote: Hi! Click packages uploaded to appstore currently declare a dependency on ubuntu-sdk-13.10, but we haven't defined this ubuntu-sdk-13.10 framework yet! This should be as backwards-compatible as possible (at least up to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Defining Click framework(s) for 13.10

2013-09-19 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, On Thursday 19 September 2013 17:27:08 Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: Can we please have these two packages in the -dev list: - qtbase5-private-dev - qtdeclarative5-private-dev Although these packages are private, they hold fundamental headers of Qt which enables the creation of dynamic

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Building C++ QML app?

2013-09-24 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 24 September 2013 12:15:07 Sam Bull wrote: We seem to be having some trouble building our app. The instructions on the website say the easiest way is to build it on the phone using qmake/cmake. But, these are not working/installed on the phone. Using qmake gives the error: jmake:

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] QML Drag Drop?

2013-09-24 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, Hmm... Without having tried the various samples in this thread. But drag and drop works reasonably well for me in the unity8 launcher. You can find it in lp:unity8 in Launcher/LauncherPanel.qml Hope this helps, Michael On Tuesday 24 September 2013 23:57:17 Joey Chan wrote: Maybe this is

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Any chat apps being currently developed?

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, On Wednesday 25 September 2013 21:26:08 Sayantan Das wrote: Can anyone shed any light on chat apps ? Will empathy be ported to Touch? I don't think empathy itself will be ported to Ubuntu Touch (well, it always can happen through the community) but the messaging app on Ubuntu Touch is

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [qml] Elements overlapping

2013-09-26 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Thursday 26 September 2013 19:46:48 Sam Bull wrote: On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 20:05 +0200, Olivier Tilloy wrote: If you don’t explicitly set a height for the ListView, indeed its height is 0. Column doesn’t resize its children, it merely positions them. OK, so, how do I put the send

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Create QML view for C++ object (not class)

2013-09-29 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Sunday 29 September 2013 13:45:01 Vladimir M. wrote: Sounds like a context property use case (you plain set a QObject as a context property for a view's root scope, w/o even registering the object's type, and all its properties and invokables become available). I don't recommend using

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Library dependency support in click packages?

2013-09-30 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Sunday 29 September 2013 23:16:04 Scott Sweeny wrote: Matt got farther than I did as far as statically linking the libraries so I'll let him address that part. The reason we mention Qt is that we started from the scope template in the Ubuntu SDK (as any developer would). Since it's a Qt

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Library dependency support in click packages?

2013-09-30 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Monday 30 September 2013 09:34:02 David Barth wrote: Le 30/09/2013 09:26, Michael Zanetti a écrit : Additionally, some libraries in Ubuntu apparently don't ship static files in their -dev packages. Once again, we could build those statically by hand and include them but that's the kind

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Create QML view for C++ object (not class)

2013-09-30 Thread Michael Zanetti
this solution: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtqml/qtqml-cppintegration-contextpropert ies.html It helps. Thanks. 2013/9/30 Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com On Sunday 29 September 2013 13:45:01 Vladimir M. wrote: Sounds like a context property use case (you plain

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sometimes I see transparent window when starting app

2013-09-30 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, I've seen this with QML only (no Ubuntu.Components) as well. So seems like an issue in Qt itself. Br, Michael On Monday 30 September 2013 14:10:48 Николай Шатохин wrote: Hello. When I starting app, I see transparent (window not transparent, it has a picture of part of screen behind

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Installing click packages without Ubuntu-one

2013-10-15 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 15 October 2013 09:47:29 Michal Suchanek wrote: On 15 October 2013 08:15, Fabio Colella fabiocolella1...@gmail.com wrote: SUMMARY Ok, so, to make things clear: You CAN install click packages without connection if you have them on your device or any support like microSD or

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How do I know an app is safe to install?

2013-10-15 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 15 October 2013 12:51:07 Robert Schroll wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com wrote: App Developers don't want to publish their code and the vast majority of users doesn't seem to care about anything security at all anyways

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How do I know an app is safe to install?

2013-10-15 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 15 October 2013 10:06:36 Sergio Schvezov wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com wrote: Hi, On Monday 14 October 2013 18:09:14 David Planella wrote: In addition to all what Dave is saying, if you want to know more about

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How do I know an app is safe to install?

2013-10-15 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 15 October 2013 10:33:39 Jamie Strandboge wrote: On 10/15/2013 09:24 AM, Florian Felgenhauer wrote: Hey *, for all the paranoids (like me) out there, who guaranties me what Permy shows me is correct. Nothing really-- it happens to have a project page and the project is open

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] can't get SMS from services without number

2013-10-16 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, Yeah, I've discovered this too last friday and reported bugs for this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/telephony-service/+bug/1238933 https://bugs.launchpad.net/telephony-service/+bug/1238939 Would be great if you could confirm them and add the details about the google 2 factor auth. Hopefully

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] What is the storage size required?

2013-10-18 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, On Friday 18 October 2013 22:19:23 jupiter wrote: I am going to buy a Nexus 4 for installing Ubuntu phone, I read the document that the Nexus 4 mako is the supported devices and codename, but I am not clear what is the codename if I buy the Nexus 4 from google stor? Yes, that will be

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, my point of view is still that forcing every little small app to bring its own daemon will: a) scare off people for writing apps for our platform as the communication overhead between a service and the UI is a huge effort and easy to mess up. b) be suicide in terms of battery usage. This

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Monday 21 October 2013 17:46:06 Jamie Strandboge wrote: Recently someone asked me about adding an apparmor policy group for qtpowerd so that apps could stop application lifecycle from suspending the app. I said to file a bug and I'd look at it because I was thinking this seemed reasonable

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Launching applications within GDB

2013-10-24 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi On Thursday 24 October 2013 03:11:25 Mike Sheldon wrote: I'm currently in the process of attempting to create a port of MeeSpot (a MeeGo spotify client) for Ubuntu Touch, Yay! Have been using that it on the N9 quite a bit :) Looking forward to your port. however while it runs fine on

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Predictive text

2013-10-24 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Thursday 24 October 2013 15:25:51 Martin Fasani wrote: There is a serious usability issue as you may know: Clicking on a predictive choice should add word (word plus space ) this is very important and should not be hard to implement. Otherwise it's not very usable since you have to press

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

2013-10-25 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Thursday 24 October 2013 15:36:11 Rick Spencer wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Jamie Strandboge ja...@canonical.comwrote: On 10/24/2013 02:00 PM, Rick Spencer wrote: It's been interesting to read all the expected use cases, and also the requirements for application developers.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

2013-10-25 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Friday 25 October 2013 09:35:26 Michael Zanetti wrote: On Thursday 24 October 2013 15:36:11 Rick Spencer wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Jamie Strandboge ja...@canonical.comwrote: On 10/24/2013 02:00 PM, Rick Spencer wrote: It's been interesting to read all the expected use

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

2013-10-25 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Friday 25 October 2013 09:56:03 Thomas Voß wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com wrote: On Thursday 24 October 2013 15:36:11 Rick Spencer wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Jamie Strandboge ja...@canonical.comwrote: On 10/24

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Accessing the user's files in a click app

2013-10-25 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Friday 25 October 2013 05:18:31 Jamie Strandboge wrote: On 10/24/2013 06:26 PM, Robert Schroll wrote: Hi all, Since my previous questions about the content hub didn't get me anywhere, I must have been asking stupid questions. Allow me to back up to a more basic topic. I doubt that

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Accessing the user's files in a click app

2013-10-25 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Friday 25 October 2013 08:13:20 Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 13-10-25 06:43 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: snip In short, your use case falls into the category of 'backup software' and backup software is not supported by the appstore at this time. Just to add some more unsupported use

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Accessing the user's files in a click app

2013-10-25 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Friday 25 October 2013 09:02:09 Jamie Strandboge wrote: On 10/25/2013 07:20 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: On Friday 25 October 2013 08:13:20 Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 13-10-25 06:43 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: snip In short, your use case falls into the category of 'backup software

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] My top 5 list to have an usable Ubuntu OS on the phone

2013-10-29 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 29 October 2013 11:48:43 john wrote: snip A complete keyboard would be wonderful. I was trying to add my wireless PSK in the wireless setup, and there was no '$' character, for example. The $ is there: Click on ?123 and then 1/2. It'll show up as 3rd entry in the first row. In

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] My top 5 list to have an usable Ubuntu OS on the phone

2013-10-30 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 29 October 2013 12:25:22 john wrote: On 10/29/2013 12:18 PM, Michael Zanetti wrote: On Tuesday 29 October 2013 11:48:43 john wrote: snip A complete keyboard would be wonderful. I was trying to add my wireless PSK in the wireless setup, and there was no '$' character

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

2013-11-04 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Sunday 03 November 2013 18:55:04 Omer Akram wrote: I think that's a compiz problem, can you report that for compiz with the steps to reproduce the issue. Hmm... No, it's not. I have the same without using compiz. On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Nekhelesh Ramananthan

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Desktop file parsing - lets standardize

2013-11-13 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 16:15:45 Thomas Voß wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Gerry Boland gerry.bol...@canonical.com wrote: Hi folks, Ryan Lortie and Lars Ubernickel were at this years FreeDesktop Summit [1]. One thing they've mentioned to me is the fact that it was decided

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Desktop file parsing - lets standardize

2013-11-13 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Wednesday 13 November 2013 10:01:24 you wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2013 16:15:45 Thomas Voß wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Gerry Boland gerry.bol...@canonical.com wrote: Hi folks

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Update from r100 to 14.04

2013-11-18 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Monday 18 November 2013 13:43:20 Alan Pope wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Chris Wayne chris.wa...@canonical.com wrote: I know there's a way to do it on the device with system-image-cli, but I usually just do phablet-flash ubuntu-system --channel trusty From:

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Any tips on getting more usable terminal settings with 'adb shell'?

2013-11-19 Thread Michael Zanetti
What I usually do is to use ssh instead of adb. That one configures the terminal properly (besides setting many other things up better than adb does). Put this into your ~/.bashrc alias sd='adb forward tcp: tcp:22; ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/known_hosts -R [localhost]:; ssh -o

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Any tips on getting more usable terminal settings with 'adb shell'?

2013-11-19 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Tuesday 19 November 2013 08:01:23 Robert Park wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Michael Zanetti michael.zane...@canonical.com wrote: alias sd='adb forward tcp: tcp:22; ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/known_hosts -R [localhost]:; ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Connect to phone from Mac

2013-11-20 Thread Michael Zanetti
I really would love to have regular mass storage mode. It's not only Mac OS, but also Car radios etc that don't support MTP. On Tuesday 19 November 2013 21:29:28 Jouni Helminen wrote: I've tried Android Filetransfer, it shows folders on the phone but gives an error when trying to copy images

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] QProcess, and a QML/JavaScript only alternative?

2013-11-26 Thread Michael Zanetti
Here is a plugin that does this. https://gitorious.org/qml-process-element/qml-process-element-qt5/ However, I don't think apparmor lets you execute anything outside your application's path and you should Qt.openUrlExternally() instead. On Monday 25 November 2013 18:58:45 Israel wrote: Is

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Features after installing uburntu mobile os to nexus4

2013-11-30 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, On Saturday 30 November 2013 21:25:01 jupiter wrote: Are the features currently available for Ubuntu on Nexus 4 including Chromium, No VLC, Not yet bash terminal Yes and USB mount on laptop running on any distributions of Linux to allow file transfer between Nexus 4 and the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [sdk] QR code support

2013-12-04 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi, On Wednesday 04 December 2013 11:39:04 Sam Bull wrote: Any SDK devs have any comment on this? It would help guide the direction of development on our app, if we have an idea of whether this will happen or not. I'm not a SDK dev but I'm the author of 2 apps with QR code scanning support

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