[Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps update 2014-09-15

2014-09-15 Thread Alan Pope
Morning all, here's a bumper update covering the last couple of weeks in Core Apps! Most of the core apps are now in maintainenece mode, fixing bugs rather than landing new features. As reported previously a number are getting new or refreshed designs including Music, Calculator, Weather and Clock

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps update

2014-08-12 Thread Sergio Schvezov
On martes 12 de agosto de 2014 07h'15:12 ART, Mitchell Reese wrote: Wow... very impressed by the recent 185 devel-proposed build... getting very slick. I particularly like the 'Manage Dash' swipe up action - smooth. I hope there's some implementation coming where we can customise our 'favourite

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps update

2014-08-12 Thread Mitchell Reese
Wow... very impressed by the recent 185 devel-proposed build... getting very slick. I particularly like the 'Manage Dash' swipe up action - smooth. I hope there's some implementation coming where we can customise our 'favourite' scopes on the home screens. Anyway, on to bugs. On the latest ima

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps update

2014-08-11 Thread Roman Shchekin
== File Use HD images for icons!!! == Terminal == Use correct icon intead of default "ava...@8.png" 2014-08-12 1:01 GMT+04:00 Nathan Haines : > On 08/11/2014 01:58 PM, Alan Pope wrote: > >> == Terminal == >> >> * For a bit of fun we will be getting an optional old school mode, >> contributed by

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps update

2014-08-11 Thread Nathan Haines
On 08/11/2014 01:58 PM, Alan Pope wrote: == Terminal == * For a bit of fun we will be getting an optional old school mode, contributed by developer of cool-old-term. Here's an early example screenshot http://i.imgur.com/Ntu399y.png I've played with this a bit on the desktop and it's *really* f

[Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps update

2014-08-11 Thread Alan Pope
2014-08-11 As we lead up to RTM we're landing the final features and fixing bugs for the images at the end of the month. We're keen for users of Ubuntu to beat heavily on the core apps and report issues where appropriate. If you're not sure where a bug goes, the existing Avengers page is probably

[Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps update 2014-05-02

2014-05-06 Thread Alan Pope
2014-05-02 Back to work after dancing merrily round a Maypole this weeks bumper update is a day late. == General Updates == We've been working hard this week to reduce the number of outstanding aged merge requests, and improve velocity of incoming merge requests. We bumped the minimum framework

[Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps update 2014-04-25

2014-04-28 Thread Alan Pope
A short post-release week left us with slightly less activity than earlier weeks. David took this opportunity to fix the build setup for some apps. We updated all the apps in the store, which helped us thoroughly test the changes made as we went through that process. == Reminders == * In order to

[Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps Update 2014-04-18

2014-04-22 Thread Alan Pope
2014-04-18 After a long weekend away from the computer, it's time for a regular core apps update! I guess everyone heard by now that Ubuntu 14.04 LTS shipped on 2014-04-17. This included an image of Ubuntu for phones and tablets with our core apps baked in. Last week we pushed a few last minute u

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

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

2014-04-14 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Sam Bull wrote: > 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 Pl

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

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

2014-04-14 Thread Alan Pope
Another week closer to 14.04 and we've been pushing hard to get any outstanding merges landed. We are addressing UI and usability bugs which have cropped up in dogfooding. As always we welcome feedback, fixes and favor. The train will keep rolling after 14.04 is out though, and we will be deliverin

[Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps Update 20140404

2014-04-07 Thread Alan Pope
This week we streamlined the core app upload (to store) and approval process. Previously we had up to ~8hr wait times between upload (by one person) and test & approve (by another). Now we grab the click packages on-demand from jenkins, test and then signal to an uploader to upload, and the approva

[Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps Update 2014-03-28

2014-03-31 Thread Alan Pope
Last week we had another round of Core Apps Hack Days. In the past we've used these as a means to focus attention on a set of critical bugs for release, as well as bitesize bugs for new developers. This time around there's been a lot of focus on bug fixing (as you'll see below) and polish. There i

[Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps update 2014-03-21

2014-03-24 Thread Alan Pope
This week we were preparing for our regular Hack Days on Tuesday 25th to Thursday 27th March. See http://popey.com/blog/2014/03/21/march-2014-core-apps-hack-days/ for more details. We'll (myself, dpm and mhall119) be around in #ubuntu-app-devel (as always) on freenode. We'd like to encourage every

[Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps update 2014-03-14

2014-03-20 Thread Alan Pope
Apologies for the late arrival of this mail, it's been languishing in my drafts for a few days. Core Apps update 2014-03-14 UDS Week! We had a bunch of sessions scheduled around core apps and community design:- http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1403/popey/meetings We also discussed the option of putt

[Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps Update 2014-02-28

2014-03-03 Thread Alan Pope
== Reminders == * A couple of packaging fixes this week to enable Reminders to run on the desktop as well as phone and tablet. https://bugs.launchpad.net/reminders-app/+bug/1276647 - "Can't launch on desktop" https://bugs.launchpad.net/reminders-app/+bug/1284857 - "module "Evernote" is not ins