Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] Why the left?

2013-03-25 Thread Octavian Damiean
going back. So just wondering what the > reasoning is behind putting the bar on the left? I'm really curious - I'm > sure there must be reasons I've missed. > That's mainly because Unity looks that way on the desktop as well. The launcher is on the left-hand side.​​ --

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] super small software keyboard

2013-03-21 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Cláudio Sampaio wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote: > >> I just watched this video about a one text line high software keyboard >> that seems to work and thought you might be interested seeing it too. >> >> http://www.youtube.com/w

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Addressing the lack of Trademark License for YouTube, Twitter and Facebook Core Apps

2013-03-19 Thread Octavian Damiean
way. There's no point missed. That's just personal preference. Some argue that a Swiss army knife is great others argue that a scalpel is better. In the end it all boils down to meeting user expectations and discoverability. -- Octavian Damiean Launchpad: https://launc

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Addressing the lack of Trademark License for YouTube, Twitter and Facebook Core Apps

2013-03-19 Thread Octavian Damiean
dy a community effort. I'm simply trying to highlight that there are branding issues with third party services that need to be addressed. We've covered that already. It is because of user expectations. A new user expects a Twitter, Facebook or YouTube application what is easily iden

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Addressing the lack of Trademark License for YouTube, Twitter and Facebook Core Apps

2013-03-18 Thread Octavian Damiean
e corresponding services. Also, personally, I don't quite like the idea in the "Thoughts on the newsreader" thread. -- Octavian Damiean Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~mainerror Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/u/418183 -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ph

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-Clock-App] Alarm functionality question

2013-03-16 Thread Octavian Damiean
not familiar with but thought I'd chime in with an idea. Tom Exactly what I was thinking. This sounds like a very reasonable solution in my opinion. -- Octavian Damiean Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~mainerror Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/u/418183 -- Mailing list: https

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] [Calculator]

2013-03-11 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Riccardo Ferrazzo wrote: > ** > > Hi there, > > > > There was a misundertand between me and Dalius regarding the +/- button, i > said that the button is unuseful because the - button can be used either as > the minus operator or to identify a negative number. The e

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] suggestion to make good mailing list

2013-03-06 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:08 AM, 박솔 wrote: > hi, all > firstly, im feel sorry about sending a mail not related to ubuntu. but, i > think i have to send this: > i want you, everyone using this mailing list, pls, when you want to send > an answer for question, send 1:1 mail. when you put the mailing

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Phone App. Framework Source code...

2013-03-06 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Arunprasad Rajkumar wrote: > Hi Zoltan, > > If I understood correctly, in ubuntu you call it is "UI Toolkit" rather > than "Application Framework". Will it have all the source codes which > handles life cycle of Applications, Windowing System(Surface flinger??)..? >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Calculator] Design problems

2013-03-04 Thread Octavian Damiean
d by a long-press. Cheers, Octavian Damiean -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Music app.

2013-03-04 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Daniel Holm wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm thinking about creating a music application. I'm in an early stage of > learning to code for QML to begin with, but I have some concerns for the > future. > > I'm thinking about creating an application that really uses Rhythmbox

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Calculator] Design problems

2013-03-04 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Michael Wild wrote: > Which, to be honest, is also a huge advantage. A feature, not a bug ;-) > I'm not saying that it should be the default, just an option. > Optional RPN, sounds like fun, why not but that shouldn't be a priority right now. Here's a question t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Tethering and Overclocking?

2013-03-01 Thread Octavian Damiean
Hello Daniel, On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Daniel Clem wrote: > One geeky thing I really enjoyed was changing the first boot logo and boot > animation. But I froze my device once with that so I shyed away from it > since. But would be an awesome plugin to be available here. > Changing the bo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [SDK] Qt Quick 2 UI missing in QtCreator on Raring

2013-02-28 Thread Octavian Damiean
Thanks a lot Timo and David! That obviously did the trick. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:29 AM, David Planella wrote: > Al 28/02/13 08:11, En/na Timo Jyrinki ha escrit: > > Hello Octavian, > > > > 28.02.2013 02:48, Octavian Damiean kirjoitti: > >> Basically what the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] On stolen device recovery

2013-02-27 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Daniel Clem wrote: > Would like to reinforce the notion of keeping big brother from abusing > this kind of thing. Very very serious caution should be taken on this > point. I feel that a special password ( not users or root) should be > required to give them acces

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SDK installation on raring

2013-02-27 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > (answering to the list as well) > > Hello, > > Archive uploads to raring were finished and during the 5.0.1 review > (qt5-proper PPA has 5.0.0) I renamed > libqt5declarative5-qtmultimedia-plugin to > qtdeclarative5-qtmultimedia-plugin to match

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Request] Add port to WIP list

2013-02-26 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Jacob Holtom wrote: > Hello All, > > I would like to add a port of Ubuntu Touch to the tf101 to the list. > Information: > Device: Asus Transformer TF101 > Progress: WIP - i'm compiling right now and working through some errors > Unlocking Instructions: http://fo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] On management of sounds

2013-02-26 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Feb 26, 2013 2:57 PM, "Bill R. WASHBURN" wrote: > > On a desktop interface, the management of alert sounds has occurred within the program providing the alert because no central alter management system has traditionally existed. Even on a desktop device, this is less than ideal. > > While this

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] rotation

2013-02-26 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:05 PM, jayw...@basshero.org wrote: > Personally as a user I would find it very annoying if all applications > that do rotate didn't auto-rotate by default ;) Of course if there is the > availability to set this in settings it is ok but for default behaviour > personally

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Official word on designs

2013-02-25 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Mika Meskanen wrote: > The designs submitted to the 12 core > apps project > have been a great source of inspiration for design and development (we have > them on the wall!) We've prioritised four of the apps in the 12 core

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

2013-02-25 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Petko wrote: > The problem is not scalability , anyone can resize their app , and most > people would think of displaying less content not to look cluttered . The > problem is that in many (if not most) cases an app that has platform > independent functionality

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ubuntu phone run Android apps

2013-02-24 Thread Octavian Damiean
d apps in our chroot > environment. > > > 2013/2/24 Octavian Damiean > >> Hello Andreas, >> >> No. While Ubuntu Touch uses CyanogenMod as a base Android applications >> won't run because the DalvikVM was removed. CyanogenMod is mainly used >> becau

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ubuntu phone run Android apps

2013-02-24 Thread Octavian Damiean
Hello Andreas, No. While Ubuntu Touch uses CyanogenMod as a base Android applications won't run because the DalvikVM was removed. CyanogenMod is mainly used because of the hardware enablement because it has been ported to a lot of Android devices. Cheers, Octavian On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 7:58 P

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

2013-02-24 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Matt Richardson < m.richardson.1...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > 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 > fo

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

2013-02-24 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Dalius wrote: > 1. I will not show "syntax error" (or other errors) anymore. I have some > ideas how to handle this. We will not drop auto-calculation - that's too > cheap to be dropped. > > a. You can't enter "4 + 20 - /". Notice that screen sometimes become

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

2013-02-23 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Mike Sandman wrote: > Color not with standing, there are many ways to indicate the "bad part": > italic, underlines...perhaps the squiggly underlines, used in most > spell-check-as-you-type scenarios. At any rate, my idea was not to use > color so much as to call

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

2013-02-23 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Mike Sandman wrote: > Perhaps you could do something with font color/style/weight to provide the > feedback rather than printing "syntax error". For example (and I too am > not a UX designer) text could be red (or italic, etc) for the added text > when the input

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

2013-02-23 Thread Octavian Damiean
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Bruno Girin wrote: > The fact that you can scroll back to see previous results is not easily > discoverable as the animation that pushes the previous result up is > rather fast. Some visual hint that you can scroll back through previous > results would be good. >

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

2013-02-23 Thread Octavian Damiean
Hello Dalius, Very impressive! I especially like the swipe up for extended functions. So far I have only one concern. If you enter an incomplete expression, because you are in the middle of writing it, the expression gets auto-evaluated as a syntactically incorrect expression. The only obvious f

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu Phone][Porting] Galaxy tab 10.1 Stingray

2013-02-22 Thread Octavian Damiean
Hello Danny, The "stingray" should be a Motorola device, not a Samsung. Anyway, if you want to give it a spin, just add yourself to the list. In case someone is already working on it he can find you on that list and contact you. Cheers, Octavian On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Danny Dyla wrot

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Porting] GT-N7000

2013-02-22 Thread Octavian Damiean
Hello Ralph, In case someone is or you give it a go, make sure to add yourself to this list. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices#Work_in_progress Cheers, Octavian On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Ralph Alexander Bariz < ralph.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there already someone on port

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Installation] adb won't detect my phone

2013-02-22 Thread Octavian Damiean
Hello Bertrand, Are you sure you've also activated "USB Debugging" in the developer options? Just putting the phone in developer mode is not enough. Additionally I don't think that you have to select any special protocol when plugging the phone in. You can check if the device gets recognized usin

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Who's installed already?

2013-02-21 Thread Octavian Damiean
That's going to be unveiled tomorrow on this page. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Lewis Donofrio wrote: > Do we have "steps" to compile/port to X platform? > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Octavian Damiean wrote: >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Who's installed already?

2013-02-21 Thread Octavian Damiean
Either you port it to that device yourself or you wait for someone to port it if you're lucky. Currently only the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 are supported. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Lewis Donofrio wrote: > How do I get it working on my Supersonic HTC handset? > > > On Th