[Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu SDK IDE and DevKit - new release

2016-04-18 Thread Zoltán Balogh
* Hi all, Today we have released the new Ubuntu SDK IDE and Devkit packages. The highlight of the changes are the following * Based on QtCreator 3.5.1 * Built on 5.6.0 Qt * Migrate templates to 1.3 UITK * Upgrade the Ubuntu Desktop Kit to OTA11 APIs * Enable clic

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Request: Add “Report a Bug"

2016-04-18 Thread Peter Bittner
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Avengers I've always felt this is the canonical source at Canonical: (funny pun intended! :-) ) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Components I used to update that page. Unfortunately, both pages are now "Immutable". Hence, it's impossible to add a cross-link from one to t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 18.04.16

2016-04-18 Thread Kevin Gunn
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak < lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > A quick update e-mail today. We had some announcements sent out today - > be sure to check their contents to see if you would be affected. > > There were also some questions about

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The one simple fix that make the Ubuntu Phone incredible

2016-04-18 Thread Selene Scriven
* Tony Scott wrote: > An interesting suggestion - any views? > > http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-one-simple-fix-that-make-the-ubuntu-phone-incredible/ It does seem like an awfully big hole in the Ubuntu Touch feature set. On Android I can fit virtually everything I use onto one screen

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Announcement: Ubuntu Touch outdated framework deprecation

2016-04-18 Thread Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak
Hello Michel, I would have to check this personally, but from the information I got last week the emulator should be working mouse-input-wise at least. There are still some issues with it which is why we didn't promote an emulator OTA-10 yet. Anyway, let me get back to you tomorrow. Cheers, W d

[Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 18.04.16

2016-04-18 Thread Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak
Hello everyone, A quick update e-mail today. We had some announcements sent out today - be sure to check their contents to see if you would be affected. There were also some questions about the recent unity8 performance regressions on the mailing-list. The current situation is that, as some know,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Announcement: Ubuntu Touch outdated framework deprecation

2016-04-18 Thread Michel Renon
Hi, Le 18/04/2016 19:50, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak a écrit : Hello everyone! Getting back to all developers regarding the aforementioned framework deprecation. We didn't deprecate those yet as we decided to give more time for porting those to newer frameworks. Right now a month has passed from t

[Ubuntu-phone] ANN: Deprecation of unused ubuntu-touch system-image channels

2016-04-18 Thread Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak
Hello everyone! Seeing that the number of our official touch devices keeps increasing, we decided to take a look at the various stable touch channels we provide. As some of you know, we ship various channels for various devices on various stages of 'readiness' [1]. The scheme we use also provides

[Ubuntu-phone] "Repository not found" when syncing repo

2016-04-18 Thread Kevin Willemse
Hi, After running the command phablet-dev-bootstrap, it gives me a few errors after syncing. I have used grep to filter them out http://pastebin.com/9Lin3zCs. According to git it appears a s if the repos are non-existent. Is there a way to fix this? I have tried to get the resources from other

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The one simple fix that make the Ubuntu Phone incredible

2016-04-18 Thread bruce
I'm really not sure why we continuously hear that Ubuntu Touch is not ready as a daily driver. Mine has been a daily driver for four months and I'm rather new to the list and messing wiht phones. Others have used Ubuntu Touch as their only phone for well over a year. If "daily driver" means the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The one simple fix that make the Ubuntu Phone incredible

2016-04-18 Thread Mark
+1 On 18/04/16 14:05, Timo Leppiniemi wrote: I was personally a little disappointed when the ability to change the "home screen" background image went away. I'm still hoping that it will be back some day. All in all I agree with the writer of the article, Linux has always been highly customi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The one simple fix that make the Ubuntu Phone incredible

2016-04-18 Thread Ivo Fernandes
+1 On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Mark wrote: > +1 > > > On 18/04/16 14:05, Timo Leppiniemi wrote: > >> I was personally a little disappointed when the ability to change the >> "home screen" background image went away. >> >> I'm still hoping that it will be back some day. >> >> All in all I ag

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The one simple fix that make the Ubuntu Phone incredible

2016-04-18 Thread Timo Leppiniemi
I was personally a little disappointed when the ability to change the "home screen" background image went away. I'm still hoping that it will be back some day. All in all I agree with the writer of the article, Linux has always been highly customizable, flexible and not limited. I would be re

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] control of the cam app from remote

2016-04-18 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, April 18, 2016 a las 01:27:09PM +0200, ch escribió: > Hi, > > maybe your are interessted in this > http://radamanthys.de/public/ubuntutouch/RemoteCam.tar.gz > > It's just the Camera example from the documentation (like Micheal said), > but with a small plugin, which reads every x

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Announcement: Ubuntu Touch outdated framework deprecation

2016-04-18 Thread Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak
Hello everyone! Getting back to all developers regarding the aforementioned framework deprecation. We didn't deprecate those yet as we decided to give more time for porting those to newer frameworks. Right now a month has passed from the original announcement and we see that the count of applicati

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] owncloud sync on the phone.

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Wood
Hi Filip, I managed to get quite a bit done on the app. I have completed the following: 1. Basic QML app to enter owncloud details and select folders to sync. 2. C++ backend to install the upstart files and launch the sync daemon 3. C++ daemon complete with a filesystemwatcher that launches o

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] owncloud sync on the phone.

2016-04-18 Thread Wayne Ward
Nice work is there a click to test :) or we better waiting Wayne :) On Monday, 18 April 2016 17:54:41 BST, Filip Dorosz wrote: Hello there. I see you've made progress on this app. (Doing C++/Qt backend) I know some good plain C/C++ (no Qt unfortunately) so I may little help. I started to so

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] owncloud sync on the phone.

2016-04-18 Thread Filip Dorosz
Hello there. I see you've made progress on this app. (Doing C++/Qt backend) I know some good plain C/C++ (no Qt unfortunately) so I may little help. I started to sorting out how to compile owncloudcmd independently and statically so we won't have to include binary blobs in this app and also do

[Ubuntu-phone] The one simple fix that make the Ubuntu Phone incredible

2016-04-18 Thread Tony Scott
An interesting suggestion - any views? http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-one-simple-fix-that-make-the-ubuntu-phone-incredible/ -- Tony Scott http://tonyscott.org.uk -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://la

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Developing Web App in Cordova for Windows and build .click package for Ubuntu Touch

2016-04-18 Thread Marco Graziotti
Hi David, thank you for your answer. It's possible to add ubuntu as platform in Cordova for Windows? This is not possible, right? I know that for building a Cordova app for Ubuntu requires an Ubuntu system. I'm looking for an easy way to export my web-app project from Cordova for Windows, to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Developing Web App in Cordova for Windows and build .click package for Ubuntu Touch

2016-04-18 Thread David Barth
Marco, Ubuntu is a supported target platform for Cordova. >From the CLI, just do: cordova platform add ubuntu Take a look at the Cordova Guide here as well, to make sure you have the right click chroot installed prior to building for the phone. https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/apps/html-5/g

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Andrea Bernabei
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Omer Akram wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Alberto Mardegan < > alberto.marde...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> On 18/04/2016 13:57, Omer Akram wrote: >> > While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced >> > was stuttering scrolli

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Introducing Zap Map

2016-04-18 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 10:33 +0200, Benjamin Zeller wrote: > Also make sure to create an x86 emulator as the armhf one is not > fast  > enough to be used properly. Also make sure it is built from the stable or rc-proposed channels, as the devel/devel-proposed channels are built from xenial and may

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 18/04/2016 15:08, Michael Zanetti wrote: > On 18.04.2016 13:57, Andrea Bernabei wrote: >> in that case reusing the delegates could work better than recreating >> them like ListView does. >> >> If I'm wrong and ListView already reuses delegates instances, then my >> points above are of course voi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 released

2016-04-18 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Montag, den 18.04.2016, 12:48 +0200 schrieb Ingo Randolf: > i was able to free around 80 MB on mmcblk0p6 by removing log-file > content and log-archives in /var/log, did 'apt-get clean' and found (and > erased) a binary of the previously un-installed dekko. erm, so you made the readonly par

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Omer Akram
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Alberto Mardegan < alberto.marde...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 18/04/2016 13:57, Omer Akram wrote: > > While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced > > was stuttering scrolling in listviews. QML tips page[2] suggested to use > > Flickable+

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Michael Zanetti
On 18.04.2016 13:57, Andrea Bernabei wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Alberto Mardegan > mailto:alberto.marde...@canonical.com>> > wrote: > > On 18/04/2016 13:57, Omer Akram wrote: > > While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced > > was stut

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Andrea Bernabei
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Alberto Mardegan < alberto.marde...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 18/04/2016 13:57, Omer Akram wrote: > > While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced > > was stuttering scrolling in listviews. QML tips page[2] suggested to use > > Flickable

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Omer Akram
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Andrea Bernabei < andrea.berna...@canonical.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Omer Akram > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced >> was stuttering scrolling in listviews. QML tips page[2] sug

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Omer Akram
My current plan is to keep it specific to Ubuntu for now and once it matures, start a conversation upstream. On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Michael Zanetti < michael.zane...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi Omer, > > sounds like this is something to be brought up on the Qt development > mailing list.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to develop an app

2016-04-18 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Gareth, On 18 April 2016 at 08:35, Gareth France wrote: > So, does anyone have any tips for going beyond a simple web app? How would I > go about designing something native and packaging it? > https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/ -> "Create an Ubuntu app ›" https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi Omer, sounds like this is something to be brought up on the Qt development mailing list. Br, Michael On 18.04.2016 12:57, Omer Akram wrote: > Hi! > > While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced > was stuttering scrolling in listviews. QML tips page[2] suggested to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] control of the cam app from remote

2016-04-18 Thread ch
Hi, maybe your are interessted in this http://radamanthys.de/public/ubuntutouch/RemoteCam.tar.gz It's just the Camera example from the documentation (like Micheal said), but with a small plugin, which reads every x milliseconds a given file. If not empty it executes the content as javascript, an

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 18/04/2016 13:57, Omer Akram wrote: > While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced > was stuttering scrolling in listviews. QML tips page[2] suggested to use > Flickable+Column+Repeater combination to have smooth scrolling, that > worked and is currently what I have imp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Andrea Bernabei
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Omer Akram wrote: > Hi! > > While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced was > stuttering scrolling in listviews. QML tips page[2] suggested to use > Flickable+Column+Repeater combination to have smooth scrolling, that worked > and is cu

[Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced was stuttering scrolling in listviews. QML tips page[2] suggested to use Flickable+Column+Repeater combination to have smooth scrolling, that worked and is currently what I have implemented in my app but I always thought th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 released

2016-04-18 Thread Ingo Randolf
i was able to free around 80 MB on mmcblk0p6 by removing log-file content and log-archives in /var/log, did 'apt-get clean' and found (and erased) a binary of the previously un-installed dekko. after another update, it shows the correct version number: OTA-10.1 mmcblk0p6 again is filled up again:

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Introducing Zap Map

2016-04-18 Thread Benjamin Zeller
On 04/17/2016 11:36 PM, Gareth France wrote: I have finally managed to publish something in the software centre! I can now announce that Zap Map is up and available, only a simple web app but it's a start. Zap Map offers a service to locate your nearest electric car charging points in the UK.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 released

2016-04-18 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
Hi Ingo, Le 17/04/2016 13:05, Ingo Randolf a écrit : Hi Matthias. thanks for formatting my disk-layout! i recognized it too late... my mmcblk0p6 looks like yours: phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ mount | fgrep /dev/mmcblk0p6 /dev/mmcblk0p6 on / type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered) Did you switch you

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to develop an app

2016-04-18 Thread Gareth France
So, does anyone have any tips for going beyond a simple web app? How would I go about designing something native and packaging it? On 17 April 2016 at 21:18, Joseph Liau wrote: > On Sunday, April 17, 2016 12:55:42 PM PDT, Gareth France < > gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Whilst I'm waiting