Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to query the type of device in use?

2014-08-14 Thread Matt Richardson
On 13/08/14 22:55, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 22:49 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote: > >> Could it test for hardware features rather than form factor? E.g. >> display "About this device" by default and only display "About this >> phone" when the device in question has telephony hardware?

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

2014-03-26 Thread Matt Richardson
On 26/03/14 09:46, Michael Zanetti wrote: > On Wednesday 26 March 2014 06:59:47 Martin Pitt wrote: >> Alberto Mardegan [2014-03-25 22:21 +0200]: >>> Just brainstorming: what if sliding left from the lower part of the >>> right edge triggered the "back" action? >> I had pretty much the same proposal

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubutnu touch for samsung galaxy s i9000 needed

2014-03-26 Thread Matt Richardson
Hi Saket, It seems from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices/galaxysmtd that some work was done to port the Samsung Galaxy S (i9000) but the status shows cellular radio (i.e. actually phoning people) is not working and the last commit was over a year ago. However, if you are interested in portin

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Fwd: My app for Ubuntu app showdown contest

2013-08-28 Thread Matt Richardson
e ubuntu phone? Because I have a Samsung Galaxy S Plus and there won't be any port for it until october or november :/ So I can try the app only on my laptop (maybe on the tablet, but tablet support will come after) :) Thank you very much for your help and interest, it's very apprecia

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Fwd: My app for Ubuntu app showdown contest

2013-08-28 Thread Matt Richardson
Hi Fabio, I had the same idea. I would love to help you with this :) Anything you'd like me to do let me know. Matt P.S. Obviously as far as the app showdown (and potential prizes thereof) is concerned you would remain the author On 21/08/13 12:11, Fabio Colella wrote: Hello, I'm currently

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Trojita as the official Ubuntu Touch email client

2013-06-22 Thread Matt Richardson
Forgot to add links: [1] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg01379.html [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/CoreApps/EmailClient On 22/06/13 12:19, Matt Richardson wrote: > I'm interested to know what the plans are for the official email > client for Ubuntu Touch. > >

[Ubuntu-phone] Trojita as the official Ubuntu Touch email client

2013-06-22 Thread Matt Richardson
I'm interested to know what the plans are for the official email client for Ubuntu Touch. Some months ago I began to write an Ubuntu Touch front-end for Trojita (an IMAP email client). At the time I raised the issue of a lack of POP3 support, but the official word was that it is not a requirement

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Trojita, a Qt/QML IMAP e-mail client

2013-03-26 Thread Matt Richardson
Hi Jan I am currently writing an email client for Ubuntu Phone and I'd love to work with you on this. So far I have been using VMime to send emails over SMTP and receive via POP3/IMAP, but it would be great to work with a mature project like Tojita. My only concern is that I emailed you in Februa

[Ubuntu-phone] Email App

2013-03-02 Thread Matt Richardson
Hi all, I'm looking to get started writing the email app but was wondering if anyone was already working on this? Also, has anyone got any ideas on what to do re the backend work and/or and ideas of projects from which we could reuse the code (no sense duplicating work) Thanks, Matt -- Mailing

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Potential to replace files/folders with tags

2013-02-25 Thread Matt Richardson
ost up to date > version of something. > > While we probably shouldn't hide the underlying file system from the > user, I do think a way to search and organize one's files based on > metadata rather than traditional folder hierarchies and file names is > a great idea.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Potential to replace files/folders with tags

2013-02-25 Thread Matt Richardson
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Matt > Richardson <mailto:m.richardson.1...@hotmail.co.uk>> wrote: > > My idea would be that the tags would operate as follows: > > When saving/creating a file any number of tags can be selected > as well a

[Ubuntu-phone] Potential to replace files/folders with tags

2013-02-24 Thread Matt Richardson
Since Ubuntu-Touch is a new system we have a potential to replace files/folders with tags. 1) Why? Tags offer a much more flexible file management system than files/folders because they allow a single file to exist in multiple locations, without the use of symlinks. 2) To tackle the obvious issue

[Ubuntu-phone] Official word on designs

2013-02-24 Thread Matt Richardson
A number of great designs have been submitted on my-balsamiq for the core apps project, but when is a design approved? I would like to start getting involved creating some of these apps but I don't want to start work if the design is going to change shortly afterwards. Obviously I understand that t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Designing for phone and tablet

2013-02-24 Thread Matt Richardson
On 24/02/13 11:51, Dalius wrote: > Hi, > > I would advice to preview Ubuntu Phone presentations video. The idea > is that apps not necessary should be full screen on tablet. While I > would agree that some apps (e.g. calendar, mail) should reuse full > estate, while others can be the same on phone

[Ubuntu-phone] Designing for phone and tablet

2013-02-24 Thread Matt Richardson
I love a lot of the designs on my-balsamiq already but I notice that they are all designed for the phone (as was the remit) How do we handle designing for tablet as well? Should a new interface for each program be designed, or should the same interface adjust itself to suit? Personally I feel tha

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Phone Calculator Demo #1

2013-02-24 Thread Matt Richardson
Love it! The only thing I would add (aside from the comments already made) would be to change e.g. 1.2e3 to 1.2 x 10^3 . I know that convention is to write the former but I think by default the latter might be helpful to basic users. Perhaps the option to select which could be available in setting