Scopes As we don't want to break scopes ABI frequently we decided to batch those changes to make scopes developers' live a little bit easier. However, that also means that we haven't really landing bigger new feature on the device for last couple of weeks. That will change next week by introducing scopes API version 0.5 that will, most notably, finally introduce department support.
The other big outstanding item is the introduction of the icon cache to speed up dash page refreshing especially the application scope. After some back and forth on the caching backend we decided to go with our own persistant cache rather than using qnetworkdiskcache as the latter one would still require network connection. Good news is that we have our own backend fully implemented by now, so "only" wiring up work is still left. Only unknown left is how or rather where to integrate, on UITK or Unity8/dash level. UITK is preferred, but for timing reasons we might just go for Unity8 for now and move it later (after RTM) on to UITK. We have also started on scope settings. This will enable scope authors to add some configurability e.g. allowing the user to specify a location for weather scope that would be displayed in surface mode. The settings storage backend is the same as the settings API in SDK ensuring that app settings can easily be shared with a corresponding scope. On the payment side we are in the process of collecting all branches of all related components for landing on the phone to verify and more easily test end to end as well as enabling another design review. Therefore, it won't be enabled by default yet. Indicators Good news first: we finally got the HW alarms working. Other than that, there was the usual bug fixing and some further progress on transfer indicator. We're aiming to get a first version of the transfer indicator landed next week, though it might not be enabled by default yet. On network indicator side we finished the flight mode, but haven't landed as there are still some issues with urfkill that causes weird connection states. As the network indicator only displays a couple of wifi APs we have been working on adding an "other networks" page to system settings. This is currently about to be finished, should land next week. Thomas -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
