Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Fwd: GPS - Navigation app

2013-07-17 Thread Sam Bull
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 13:42 +0100, Zisu Andrei wrote: > It even has a lot of things that have not been updated in google maps > in about 2 years. That's kind of the point. It's like a wiki, see something missing? then just add it to the map. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Applications spawning other Applications

2013-07-18 Thread Sam Bull
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 13:08 -0500, Josh Leverette wrote: > I agree. A pluggable architecture (like Android's Intents) would be > better than hard coding. It's on this blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/sdk-system-and-backend-apis "Application to call actions on other applicat

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [feature request/question] Encrypted email/sms support?

2013-07-18 Thread Sam Bull
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 20:26 +0200, Rasmus Eneman wrote: > >If you're going to handle key creation and exchange invisibly, what > use is GPG? > Because we would want that infrastructure for the email anyways. I think his point is that the strength of GPG is in it's trust model. We can handle key cr

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [feature request/question] Encrypted email/sms support?

2013-07-18 Thread Sam Bull
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 13:56 -0500, Josh Leverette wrote: > The phone number approach was being used to authenticate SMS > communications. Thought we already decided it would not be possible to do this through SMS due to restrictions in size etc. I thought this was an SMS equivalent. In which case

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Daily/Current?

2013-07-19 Thread Sam Bull
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 17:52 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch/daily-preinstalled/ > > Let us know if there's some out-dated documentation we need to update > please? How come the new location is missing the changelog? signature.asc Description: This is a digit

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Daily/Current?

2013-07-20 Thread Sam Bull
On Sat, 2013-07-20 at 16:02 +0200, Cyrille Ngassam Nkwenga wrote: > Wenn I'm on the last build from 12 July, should just apt-get upgrade > be enough to be on to date or should I need to flash the need image ? 'apt-get dist-upgrade' has been working fine for me. Though 'apt-get upgrade' will hold b

[Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-22 Thread Sam Bull
Haven't seen it mentioned here yet, and someone else just pointed it out to me. There's an Indiegogo campaign for a new phone from Canonical. It looks amazing and there's a one-day promotion to get it at a reduced price. Just wanted to make sure everyone here got a chance to get one, the promotion

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-22 Thread Sam Bull
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 20:28 +0200, Andrea Pivetta wrote: > I don't understand, what have I to do to have the possibility to buy > this device? Right, make sure you select the One day only, or Ubuntu edge perk after clicking the contribute button. You will need to pledge (pay) a certain amount to d

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-22 Thread Sam Bull
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 13:47 -0500, Josh Leverette wrote: > Cool. Also, I wrote a Python script for my personal use, to watch the > amount of funding that the Ubuntu Edge has > received! http://pastebin.com/TJ1Hvktw Thanks for that, just popped that into my conky script. :D signature.asc Descript

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-23 Thread Sam Bull
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 17:43 -0700, Mike Bybee wrote: > See Ouya as a capital example. I could have told you on day 1 that Ouya and GameStick would suck. To this day I have no idea why so many people invested money in these projects, they seemed like terrible ideas to me. This phone is the first cr

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-07-24 Thread Sam Bull
On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 11:51 +, Omar B. wrote: > They're all the same so am kinda confused. They're also all limited. So, the later you come to the campaign, the more you'll have to pay. They can't offer an unlimited amount at $625, it's just a limited offer, which becomes less of a discount th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Getting ubuntu_stamp file

2013-07-28 Thread Sam Bull
On Sun, 2013-07-28 at 08:30 -0700, John Kim wrote: > Now, the question is: how I can send my file from the device to my > computer? I used scp and it worked, but is there another, more simple > way to do this at this time? I think you can "adb pull /path/to/file" if it's plugged in. signature.a

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

2013-07-30 Thread Sam Bull
On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 09:30 -0500, Ted Gould wrote: > So yes, we can get it from the carrier, then if not we can fall back > to network based methods. I hope NTP can be used as the default. I've had my old Android phone set to use network time, and every month or so, it randomly sets the time to 6

[Ubuntu-phone] [dev] Developing UI with Rig

2013-08-03 Thread Sam Bull
Hey, I'm at GUADEC, and there is an interesting project in development. Rig allows you to interactively design a user interface. Most interesting though, is it's device mode. This allows you to plug your phone in, and try out the interface on your phone while you're working with the interface. Sou

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

2013-08-06 Thread Sam Bull
On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 10:58 +0200, Ruald Andreae wrote: > We can then discuss how to best continue with each issue. A lot of the things you have mentioned are bugs. It is far more likely for these to be tracked and fixed if you file them as individual bugs in Launchpad. Try assigning them to touch

[Ubuntu-phone] GDC interest

2013-08-19 Thread Sam Bull
I'm at GDC Europe this week. Talking to some of the people around, most of the businesses I talked to are excited about and interested in developing for Ubuntu Touch. Though few know much about it, some were completely unaware that you can already try it out. One I talked to was the Sphero 2.0 guy

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Channel 13 on Ubuntu Touch wifi

2013-09-01 Thread Sam Bull
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 15:09 +0530, Sayantan Das wrote: > I have tested two routers- the phone is unable to pick signal from > either of them. If I change the channel to any other than 13, it > connects. I am testing using Nexus 4. I believe some devices have difficulty with the extreme end channel

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-Phone] Anyone who has working sound through headphones?

2013-09-01 Thread Sam Bull
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 12:56 +0200, Daniel Holm wrote: > Yepp, headphones does work in latest build on Galaxy Nexus, and my port > obviously worked tough it's seems a bit beaten up :P What?! I have no sound at all. Since about Friday, I have no audio on my phone at all. Can't even do phone calls o

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Channel 13 on Ubuntu Touch wifi

2013-09-01 Thread Sam Bull
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 16:35 +0530, Sayantan Das wrote: > Thanks for your reply Sam. however, if Android can pickup the signal > on the same phone, why cant Ubuntu Touch? Ah, didn't realise Android was working. This puts into question whether my Linksys adapter was incapable, or whether this is a b

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

2013-09-01 Thread Sam Bull
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 the drive when a phone > running Ubuntu Touch is connected via USB cable to a PC? It should support mass storage device mode even

[Ubuntu-phone] QML d-bus

2013-09-11 Thread Sam Bull
When talking about making an app in a different language, someone said that it would be possible using d-bus. I'm looking to start a Bitcoin app, and the best way would be to use existing code for the backend, which requires Java. So, how do I use d-bus in QML to be able to interface with this?

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] QML d-bus

2013-09-12 Thread Sam Bull
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 23:12 +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: > good to hear that you are thinking about a bitcoin client. Is there > any specific reason you are preferring the java API over > http://libbitcoin.dyne.org/? We were looking at the programs which allow quick (only seconds) synchronisation. The

[Ubuntu-phone] [qml] Expansion

2013-09-12 Thread Sam Bull
The design docs talk about, and show, the expansion pattern. But, is there any toolkit stuff to implement this in an app? The page doesn't seem to give any, only mentioning that a ListItem is related. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Mailing list: https://lau

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [qml] Expansion

2013-09-12 Thread Sam Bull
On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 15:36 +0200, Daniel Holm wrote: > This bug was reported a while ago: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1169258 > > It's probably what you are going for, right? I agree with you. Thanks for the link, that's the one. signature.asc Description: This is a di

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Best Way Of Reloading A Screwed System

2013-09-14 Thread Sam Bull
On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 19:52 +0200, Fabian Herb wrote: > the OTA update never worked for me so far, so I always did > "phablet-flash cdimage-touch" instead. You need to use "phablet-flash ubuntu-system" for it to be configured correctly for OTA upgrades. Has been working fine for me. signature.as

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Best Way Of Reloading A Screwed System

2013-09-14 Thread Sam Bull
On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 20:06 +0100, Phil wrote: > So, this returns to my original issue, am I ok to try to phablet the > ubuntu-system image onto my phone in the state in which it is in? I don't see why it would be a problem. When you install ubuntu-system, it backs up the home folder, wipes the ph

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] QML d-bus

2013-09-16 Thread Sam Bull
On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 12:07 +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Sam Bull wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 23:12 +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: > >> good to hear that you are thinking about a bitcoin client. Is there > >> any specific reason you are p

[Ubuntu-phone] [qml] anchors.fill error in ListView

2013-09-21 Thread Sam Bull
I am receiving an error when running my app, about using anchors.fill. If I replace anchors.fill with left and right anchors only, then the ListView only displays one item. Is there a way to make the code work AND get rid of the error? I only seem to be able to do one or the other. The error and re

[Ubuntu-phone] [qml] Popover and OptionSelector

2013-09-24 Thread Sam Bull
I'm trying to create a combobox-like widget. I have a button that calls PopupUtils.show() to display a popover, but have not worked out how to save the selection. I need to be able to save the selection and also change the button's label in response to a selection. The popover looks like this:

[Ubuntu-phone] Building C++ & QML app?

2013-09-24 Thread Sam Bull
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: could not exec '/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/bin/qmake':

[Ubuntu-phone] App storage

2013-09-26 Thread Sam Bull
What's the method required for apps to store data on the phone? We're using a library that simply saves files in the apps current directory, but running on the phone it doesn't seem to have permission to do so. Is there a location we can save the files, which should be easy to change. Or, do we n

[Ubuntu-phone] [qml] Elements overlapping

2013-09-26 Thread Sam Bull
I'm having a persistent problem getting elements to not overlap when using a ListView. The code sample is below. The first thing, is that the button sits at the top overlapping the first element. But, if I add a second element to the model, it doesn't appear. Which might be because it's overlappin

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

2013-09-26 Thread Sam Bull
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 button below the ListView, if I don't know the size ahead of tim

[Ubuntu-phone] Anybody have Adobe Illustrator?

2013-09-30 Thread Sam Bull
We're nearly ready to release our first beta of the Bitcoin client. But, we are missing an image, and I've found the perfect image, but it's in Illustrator format. If anybody has access to Illustrator, do you think you could export this image in SVG format? It fails to open correctly in Inkscape.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Anybody have Adobe Illustrator?

2013-09-30 Thread Sam Bull
On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 16:14 +0100, David Aizenberg wrote: > Does it work? > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3U7iD3eG4-jdFBJcnA1My1CMFU/edit?usp=sharing Yep, thanks, that's worked, and thanks everyone else for the offers. Unfortunately, the file is really large, and the image looks dreadful unde

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Anybody have Adobe Illustrator?

2013-10-01 Thread Sam Bull
On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 19:10 -0500, Israel wrote: > You could shrink the image(if you mean too large in dimensions), and > export it as a PNG. Dimensions don't matter, it's set to the correct size for an icon. Qt's renderer just makes it look awful at small sizes. It looks fine at the same size in

[Ubuntu-phone] Setting app size on phone

2013-10-01 Thread Sam Bull
When running our app on the phone, it uses the size specified in the QML, and the app is displayed too small or too big for the phone screen. We are running this through C++, so my first thought is that qmlscene overrides the sizes (as we are using the same size as clock-app). If that's correct, i

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Any offline map application / existing Ubuntu app that can be used ?

2013-10-22 Thread Sam Bull
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 16:50 +0200, Martin Fasani wrote: > Possible to use any application to open an OSM Open streets map ? > If there's ready when you go, the OSM webapp in the store seems to cache the map tiles, so I was able to use it to a limited extent without internet access. signature.asc

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Any offline map application / existing Ubuntu app that can be used ?

2013-10-23 Thread Sam Bull
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 09:28 +0200, Martin Fasani wrote: > * > Another recommendation will be to move the navigation bar on > the top. I see no innovation in doing it the opposite way: > it's just not natural to have it on the bottom > Controls for ALL apps are hidden

[Ubuntu-phone] Bitcoin alpha available now

2013-10-30 Thread Sam Bull
Our first alpha release for a Bitcoin client is now available on Ubuntu Touch. Just search for bitcoin and you should find it. It has a working wallet that allows you to send/receive bitcoins. It is still lacking a lot of features, but feedback on this early release is welcome. You can track fut

[Ubuntu-phone] Add image for toolbar buttons?

2013-10-30 Thread Sam Bull
Considering the common use of the add icon for toolbar buttons, is there an SDK icon for this available? It appears the core apps are all packaging their own image files for this. It would make sense to keep apps consistent by making this icon part of the SDK. It would also be a good idea to have

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Add image for toolbar buttons?

2013-10-31 Thread Sam Bull
On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 09:31 -0700, Jouni Helminen wrote: > Sorry - the URL for the docs has updated > to http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/sdk-1.0/Ubuntu.Components.Icon/ OK, so how do I actually use this in a toolbar button? The documentation says it only has an iconSource attribute, which doe

[Ubuntu-phone] [sdk] TextField change background colour?

2013-11-01 Thread Sam Bull
I would like to change the background colour of a TextField to indicate an error. I cannot see any option to do this. I do however see an errorHighlight attribute, but changing it seems to do nothing. Any way to do this? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Mail

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [sdk] TextField change background colour?

2013-11-01 Thread Sam Bull
On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 10:29 -0200, Renato Filho wrote: > style: TextFieldStyle { > background: Item {} > } I seem to be unable to import this component. Any idea how to get the component? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Mailing list: https:/

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Add image for toolbar buttons?

2013-11-03 Thread Sam Bull
On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 12:16 -0500, Israel wrote: > Does it work with the icons installed though. Since these apps are to > be cross platform (cross device?), I think this would be needed, in > order for these apps to be truly device independant Using Matt's method, the icons show up just fine on

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] Landing plan - Tuesday 5th November

2013-11-06 Thread Sam Bull
On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 12:38 +0100, Tim Peeters wrote: > I made the changes, as requested by design. See the description of > this bug: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1207369 What if it just bounced slightly into view during the transition? Much like when you tap

[Ubuntu-phone] Broken click package

2013-11-12 Thread Sam Bull
I uploaded a new click package for our Bitcoin app, but it failed due to an error. Having tested it on my machine, I get the same error. But, my friend who would need to debug this issue, gets no errors with the same tools. We've checksummed the click package with both MD5 and SHA1, and it is the

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

2013-11-19 Thread Sam Bull
I'm looking for a way to format dates nicely. It looks like moment.js will give me what I want, but I can't work out how to use it from QML or a Javascript file. I've downloaded the with-langs file from their website, and then tried "import 'moment.js' as moment" and "Qt.include('moment.js')", but

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

2013-11-22 Thread Sam Bull
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 parts of Ubuntu Touch. On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 10:31 +, Sam Bull wrote: > I'm

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing plan 25.11.12 special episode

2013-11-26 Thread Sam Bull
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 16:32 +0100, Didier Roche wrote: > Noting that the remaining autopilot test failures are false positives > from the core applicaitons we ship, we confirm manually that they all > work as expected. Unfortunately, didn't test it enough. After updating to r28, my phone won't ev

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing plan 25.11.12 special episode

2013-11-26 Thread Sam Bull
And, if I waited 5 more minutes, you've already fixed those problems. Great work guys! On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 17:41 +0000, Sam Bull wrote: > Unfortunately, didn't test it enough. After updating to r28, my phone > won't even connect to the phone network without already bein

[Ubuntu-phone] Toolbars in popup sheet?

2013-11-26 Thread Sam Bull
Is there a way to put toolbars in a popup sheet? In our Bitcoin app, we are using tabs for the main views. But, we also have a button to open up the addressbook. I would like this to be a popup, and DefaultSheet matches the idea. But, I need to add some controls into a toolbar, and the sheet doesn

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Toolbars in popup sheet?

2013-11-27 Thread Sam Bull
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 18:09 +, Sam Bull wrote: > Is there a way to put toolbars in a popup sheet? Does anybody have a solution for this? Not sure how to continue with our app. > In our Bitcoin app, we are using tabs for the main views. But, we also > have a button to open up the ad

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Toolbars in popup sheet?

2013-11-28 Thread Sam Bull
On Wed, 2013-11-27 at 15:32 -0600, Michael Spencer wrote: > I was told by one of the the Ubuntu App Showdown judges that it would > be best to use a page on the page stack instead of sheets. This would > solve your problem, wouldn’t it? As per the design guides, a page stack should not be used wit

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] Vertical scrolling in dash is hard to grasp

2013-11-29 Thread Sam Bull
On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 13:17 +0500, Omer Akram wrote: > Perhaps there are other ideas around that concept that I am not aware > of ? Just having them in the same grid position would be a good start. Everytime I look at my phone, the order of icons seems to have changed yet again. I would expect the

[Ubuntu-phone] URL Dispatcher progress?

2013-11-29 Thread Sam Bull
Has there been any progress on the URL dispatcher supporting additional protocols? We need to support the bitcoin: protocol from our app, so that users can purchase things by clicking a link in the browser, or scanning a bitcoin: link from a QR code. Without this, users would be expected to do so

[Ubuntu-phone] [sdk] QR code support

2013-11-29 Thread Sam Bull
As QR codes have become such a common integral part of phone apps, is there any plan to support them in the SDK, so they don't need to be reimplemented in each app? Obviously, there are two parts to this, so I'll give some ideas of what I'm expecting. == Scanning a QR code == It would be useful t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] URL Dispatcher progress?

2013-12-03 Thread Sam Bull
On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 09:52 +, Ted Gould wrote: > Currently, the idea winning is a triplet of protocol, domain and > suffix where the most precise entry "wins" but there would be a > possibility for the user to change the ranking. > ('http', null, null) > > Thoughts? Sound reasonable. It's

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

2013-12-04 Thread Sam Bull
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. On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 20:21 +, Sam Bull wrote: > As QR codes have become such a common integral part of phone apps, is > there any p

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

2013-12-07 Thread Sam Bull
Please see the screenshot at http://sambull.org/screenshot.png You can see where I've started typing, and below that is a list of autocomplete suggestions ('Yorba' in the screenshot). In order for these selections to be clickable, what component would be recommended? Label doesn't seem to allow c

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

2013-12-08 Thread Sam Bull
On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 17:28 +, Michał Sawicz wrote: > OTOH a component like this (combobox / type-ahead search) would probably > benefit from being standard in the SDK - care to file a bug against > ubuntu-ui-toolkit? Done: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1258897 I've stuc

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OSK regression [was: Re: Ubuntu touch images - 11.12.13]

2013-12-13 Thread Sam Bull
On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 14:25 +0100, Michał Sawicz wrote: > >> There's ideas to improve that (i.e. you should be able to swipe down > >> *anywhere* on the keyboard to swipe it down, really), I believe > >> Jouni filed a bug, can't find it now, though... > > It never worked like this It did work lik

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OSK regression [was: Re: Ubuntu touch images - 11.12.13]

2013-12-13 Thread Sam Bull
On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 11:42 +0100, Michał Sawicz wrote: > Yeah, the threshold just needs to be higher, but the approach seems > feasible still. Won't help discoverability, though. Using the device, it was quickly obvious that everything is gesture based, and fairly logical. So, with no buttons or

[Ubuntu-phone] What is happening to app reviews / security policy?

2013-12-24 Thread Sam Bull
I tried uploading a new app to the store yesterday, and it was refused due to this failure: "security_policy_version_is_1.1 (bitcoin-app.json)": "1.0 != 1.1" Despite the fact that this is not the test in the current click-reviewers-tools. Having fixed that, and getting it accepted,

[Ubuntu-phone] [qml] Using a timeout on a delegate?

2014-01-19 Thread Sam Bull
Having a little trouble with QML, once again. I have a function which is called periodically (it's used to set the visible property). When the function finds some value to be true, I want to change a property after a 3 second timeout. The closest I have got so far, is creating a Timer object, and

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [qml] Using a timeout on a delegate?

2014-01-19 Thread Sam Bull
On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 16:50 +0100, Bram Geelen wrote: > you might want to combine a sequentialanimation with a pauseanimation. This produces exactly the same problem as using the Timer: file:///home/s/Hacking/Bitcoin/confirmation/qml/TransactionsPage.qml:47:13: Cannot assign object to li

[Ubuntu-phone] Check network status?

2014-01-25 Thread Sam Bull
Is there a way for an app to check the network status? We'd like to display an indication of the status to the user when disconnected from the network. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-pho

[Ubuntu-phone] Python app tutorial?

2014-01-25 Thread Sam Bull
Is there a tutorial or something to create a python3/QML app? I just attempted to get something running from some emails last year, but can't seems to get it to run at all. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Pos

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Python app tutorial?

2014-01-27 Thread Sam Bull
On sab, 2014-01-25 at 11:27 -0800, Robert Park wrote: > The way it's done in friends-app is that there's a python service that > exposes a DBus API, and then in C++ there's a small wrapper around the > DBus API (exposing it into Qml) and then the Qml makes DBus calls into > the python script. I th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Python app tutorial?

2014-01-27 Thread Sam Bull
On lun, 2014-01-27 at 22:25 +, Sam Bull wrote: > I thought we were supposed to be able to use Python directly, with pyqt? > I've tried running some example code that was posted to this list months > ago, while the QML appears to run (I can get print output), it fails to >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Python app tutorial?

2014-01-27 Thread Sam Bull
On lun, 2014-01-27 at 16:44 -0600, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > Since you sent this to the ubuntu-phone mailing list, I am figuring you are > asking your question so that you can have your app packaged as click and > available in the app store. If so, be aware that python is not (currently) > supporte

[Ubuntu-phone] Messaging app regression?

2014-01-31 Thread Sam Bull
No new messages (sent or received) seem to be appearing in the messaging app threads, as of today/yesterday. Anyone else see this? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.n

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Messaging app regression?

2014-01-31 Thread Sam Bull
On ven, 2014-01-31 at 12:42 +, Alan Pope wrote: > Works fine on mako #156 here. What image are you seeing that on? Yesterdays promoted image. I'll play around with it in a bit to make sure it's reproducible here. I'm still receiving messages (in the indicator), and can send them. They just do

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Messaging app regression?

2014-01-31 Thread Sam Bull
On ven, 2014-01-31 at 14:58 +0200, Rick Spencer wrote: > This happened to me when log files filled up my hard drive. Maybe try > deleting log files to reclaim some space and see if it starts working > again? Yep, so pretty much everything is non-functional, because I've run out of storage space.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Messaging app regression?

2014-01-31 Thread Sam Bull
On ven, 2014-01-31 at 16:09 +, Sam Bull wrote: > Also, what project should a bug be registered to? Yep, so /var/log/syslog* was about 2.4 GB. That's definitely not acceptable on a phone and needs to be handled much better. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mess

[Ubuntu-phone] Using a zip file?

2014-02-05 Thread Sam Bull
I want to include some data with my app. It is a zip file about 15MB in size, uncompressed the files are about 40MB. So, it would be nice to keep it as compressed file. Can click packages extract a file and save it somewhere appropriate when installing to the phone? If not, is there an easy way to

[Ubuntu-phone] [SDK] Expandable items

2014-02-05 Thread Sam Bull
Are expandable items going to be available soon? It looks like it's been ready to merge for weeks: https://code.launchpad.net/~mzanetti/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/expanding-listitem/+merge/195602 Sorry to pester, but this has been holding up completion of our app for a few months now. signature.asc Desc

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Using a zip file?

2014-02-05 Thread Sam Bull
On mer, 2014-02-05 at 17:45 +0100, Michael Zanetti wrote: > But actually this begs the question: Why do you want to package up your files > into a .zip? click packages compress their data automatically. So while the > files would be unpackaged in the source repository, the actual resulting > cli

[Ubuntu-phone] [qml] XmlListModel

2014-02-07 Thread Sam Bull
Can XmlListModel be used for rather complex XML? My specific use case is for dictionary data, a document refers to a root word, which can contain several versions of the word, each with their own definition and several translations (to different languages). So, I'd like to be able to do something

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [SDK] Expandable items

2014-02-10 Thread Sam Bull
Does nobody have any idea? There's nothing more we can develop on our app until this is merged. On mer, 2014-02-05 at 15:56 +0000, Sam Bull wrote: > Are expandable items going to be available soon? > > It looks like it's been ready to merge for weeks: > https://code.l

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 12.02.14

2014-02-13 Thread Sam Bull
I got a weird bug today as well. I clicked to launch Friends, and the camera loaded instead. When I swiped back to the home screen, it showed two apps open, the 'Friends' app with a preview of the camera, meaning it actually launched the camera app inside of the Friends instance or something. And,

[Ubuntu-phone] Array push not functioning

2014-02-13 Thread Sam Bull
Can anybody understand what is happening with my code. It is a bit of Javascript embedded in my QML: print(componentList.push(Qt.createQmlObject("import Ubuntu.Components 0.1; Label {text: '" + node.nodeValue.trim() + "'}", col, "myLabel"))) print("BAR", componentLi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Array push not functioning

2014-02-14 Thread Sam Bull
On ven, 2014-02-14 at 11:11 +0200, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > is this with Qt 5.2? It looks terribly similar to > https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-36491 > (which is now fixed upstream, and will also be fixed on our Qt 5.2 > packages via distro-patching) Roman had the solution, think h

[Ubuntu-phone] StateSaver performance issue

2014-02-16 Thread Sam Bull
Is there any tips on using a StateSaver? I just want to store a boolean state for a list of languages. I am currently doing this by using a StateSaver on a delegate's checked attribute. But now the app often becomes unresponsive for about 5 seconds when it launches, and always hangs for about 5 s

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] StateSaver performance issue

2014-02-18 Thread Sam Bull
On mar, 2014-02-18 at 09:31 +0200, Zsombor Egri wrote: > I must agree with Roman: if you want to save the language, save the > last selected one, and check it in each delegate. I need to store each of the languages as enabled/disabled (not just one). I've managed to change the code, so the StateSa

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 20.02.14

2014-02-21 Thread Sam Bull
On ĵaŭ, 2014-02-20 at 18:54 +0100, Didier Roche wrote: > #194: > * click-update-manager (the old UI for updating click packages) is now > removed as the whole functionality is now in system-settings update panel. Umm, no it's not... I just released a new version of my app on the store, and now I'

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 21.03.2014

2014-03-22 Thread Sam Bull
On ven, 2014-03-21 at 18:57 +0100, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote: > So, please enjoy #250 soon! Upon updating to image 250, I have several apps that don't run. This includes Calendar, Music and Terminal. Clicking on them opens a white screen, swiping back to apps shows nothing open. Additionally,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 21.03.2014

2014-03-22 Thread Sam Bull
On sab, 2014-03-22 at 12:12 -0500, Victor Thompson wrote: > I've experienced the first issue a number of times. You can search for > the app and it will run (as an example of a work around). But to fix > this reboot your phone. That usually fixes it for me. I've also > experienced stale icons on th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 21.03.2014

2014-03-23 Thread Sam Bull
On sab, 2014-03-22 at 16:30 +, Sam Bull wrote: > Upon updating to image 250, I have several apps that don't run. This > includes Calendar, Music and Terminal. Clicking on them opens a white > screen, swiping back to apps shows nothing open. Additionally, the > Calendar app i

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 21.03.2014

2014-03-23 Thread Sam Bull
Well, this reveals a few more errors. On dim, 2014-03-23 at 10:04 -0300, Sergio Schvezov wrote: > Yes, but you shouldn't be running it this way; does running: > upstart-app-launch com.ubuntu.music_music_1.1.359 > work? Didn't know there was a new way for launching apps. So, it was the wrong versi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 21.03.2014

2014-03-25 Thread Sam Bull
On lun, 2014-03-24 at 13:45 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 02:59:19PM +0000, Sam Bull wrote: > > So, this appears to fail due to a webapp I uninstalled months ago. > > http://pastebin.com/bg5PXa30 > > Could you file a bug on the click package in Ubun

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 21.03.2014

2014-03-25 Thread Sam Bull
On lun, 2014-03-24 at 13:45 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 02:59:19PM +0000, Sam Bull wrote: > > On dim, 2014-03-23 at 10:04 -0300, Sergio Schvezov wrote: > > > The installed version can be checked by running > > > click list | grep music > >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] No more custom home screen backgrounds?

2014-03-26 Thread Sam Bull
On mer, 2014-03-26 at 07:08 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Oh, is it? TFT displays don't work like that: the background > illumination is always the same, and the display pixels just > filter/hide it at that particular position. So if anything, you save > battery life with dark text on bright backgrou

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] New back button placement, are we serious ?!?

2014-03-26 Thread Sam Bull
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Michael Zanetti > What I'm not sure about (and thats purely my opinion) is if it was a good idea > to give the bottom edge to app developers. As the proposal says, its the most > important and easily reachable edge. Imo it should be consistent across the > phone ex

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] New back button placement, are we serious ?!?

2014-03-26 Thread Sam Bull
On 03/26/2014 06:58 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, Am Mittwoch, den 26.03.2014, 02:57 -0700 schrieb Nathan Haines: >> On 03/26/2014 02:46 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: >>> Note aside: The reason why the Launcher on the phone is inverted, is >>> because it was too hard to reach the home >>> button in

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 21.03.2014

2014-03-26 Thread Sam Bull
On sab, 2014-03-22 at 16:30 +, Sam Bull wrote: > Also, our Bitcoin app is no longer showing dates in the transactions > view. It still works on the desktop though, so I don't know what's > changed to break that. Any ideas? OK, tracked down the problem. We get dates in the f

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] New back button placement, are we serious ?!?

2014-03-28 Thread Sam Bull
On ven, 2014-03-28 at 08:47 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > (This raises an interesting point: The first-run gesture tutorial > won't be visible to potential customers, unless the phone is > completely reset between each person playing with it in the shop, > which is unlikely.) Why not have a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] anti-theft

2014-04-11 Thread Sam Bull
On ĵaŭ, 2014-04-10 at 21:50 -0430, Yasmany Cubela Medina wrote: > I live in a country (venezuela) where the index theft its very high, > but even in other countries its a problem that will be presented in > some times. I've been thinking about something along these lines too. Though, my thoughts w

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps Update 2014-04-11

2014-04-14 Thread Sam Bull
On lun, 2014-04-14 at 14:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > == RSS Reader == > We're interested in cases where the app doesn't suit, let us know > if you find fixable feeds which don't render correctly. In the case of aggregated feeds, such as Planet GNOME, it seems that it doesn't show the author anywh

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps Update 2014-04-11

2014-04-14 Thread Sam Bull
On lun, 2014-04-14 at 17:44 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > > Also, can't seem to subscribe to GIMP's feed: > > http://www.gimp.org/news.rdf > > Does that work in other RSS readers? > > It fails to validate:- Fair enough, thought something looked a bit wrong with it anyway, doesn't display like a norm

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