* Robert Schroll wrote:
> >As for syncing, have you considered doing it via Calibre
> >support?
>
> No, I actually like my users. :) I kid, but Calibre represents
> the opposite of my philosophy in many ways. If there's
> something I can do to make life better for Calibre users, I'll
> try
Hi Robert,
2016-02-02 2:39 GMT+01:00 Robert Schroll :
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Neil McPhail wrote:
>
>> It seems that the most useful core apps have additional apparmor
>> blessings which are not available to ordinary devs using the default
>> store,
>>
>
> This is perhaps the most fru
On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 09:57 -0500, Robert Schroll wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Sam Bull
> wrote:
> > How would OwnCloud file sync know how to sync settings and such
> > from
> > certain apps? That would require a moderately complex and hacky
> > solution, which I believe would also req
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:55 AM, Christian Dywan
wrote:
The sync branch didn't make it past proof of concept - see
https://code.launchpad.net/~uonedb-qt/u1db-qt/syncWithU1 - it
basically works but the code needed cleaning up when my time then was
increasingly going into UI Toolkit work, and the
On Mon, February 1, 2016 3:33 pm, Neil McPhail wrote:
>
> 1) It should be possible to add books from internet sites such as Project
> gutenberg
> 2) It should be possible to add books via USB cable from computer
> 3) It should be possible to add books via Bluetooth from another device
> 4) It shoul
On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 11:03 +, Wayne Ward wrote:
> Could you not use owncloud for the sync imalready using this fine
> with ubuntu touch :)
Uhh, no... I use OwnCloud to sync contacts/calendars.
How would OwnCloud file sync know how to sync settings and such from
certain apps? That would requi
If you have an owncloud server (that runs a U1Db server), sure. I
suspect most people don't however have access to something like that.
But this is why I mentioned that by design the server should be freely
exchangeable. It would make sense to pick the server in the accounts
settings. Part of
Could you not use owncloud for the sync imalready using this fine with
ubuntu touch :)
Wayne
On 02/02/16 10:51, Sam Bull wrote:
On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 10:55 +0100, Christian Dywan wrote:
I'd be very happy to see this work being picked up if there's enough
interest, especially with concrete use
On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 10:55 +0100, Christian Dywan wrote:
> I'd be very happy to see this work being picked up if there's enough
> interest, especially with concrete use cases to solve, as looking
> back the original API was not written in the best possible way,
> especially the Synchronizer.
It s
Indeed the backend useable by U1Db was not shut down. Unfortunately
however all documentation is gone so I sympathize with the fact that
it's basically impossible to discover that the servers are still
running.
https://u1db.one.ubuntu.com/~/test.db
That's what the API endpoint looks like. It
* Robert Schroll wrote:
> TXT file support would be pretty easy, actually, but I didn't
> know that was actually a thing. (Is that actually a thing?)
Plain text is, and probably always will be, a thing.
I have quite a few books in plain text format. They are usually
.txt.gz or .txt.bz2 thoug
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Rodney Dawes
wrote:
It was always clearly stated that the U1DB server was still up, and
that
it was not done via file synchronization.
I'm afraid I completely missed this point up til now. I looked back at
the announcement of the shutdown of Ubuntu One (not
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 17:53 -0500, Robert Schroll wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Rodney Dawes
> wrote:
> > Ubuntu One is not shut down. What was shut down was the file/music
> > sync/streaming/storage/store services. U1DB is still up AFAIK, and
> > Ubuntu One is still the SSO account in
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Neil McPhail
wrote:
It seems that the most useful core apps have additional apparmor
blessings which are not available to ordinary devs using the default
store,
This is perhaps the most frustrating part of the whole experience.
Beru is not fundamentally diffe
On Mon, February 1, 2016 8:19 pm, Robert Schroll wrote:
>
> As someone who actually has built an ebook reader for the Ubuntu phone
> [1], I figured I might have some insight here.
Wow. Thanks for such a comprehensive reply and series of links. It is nice
to see my frustrations with the platform ar
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Rodney Dawes
wrote:
Ubuntu One is not shut down. What was shut down was the file/music
sync/streaming/storage/store services. U1DB is still up AFAIK, and
Ubuntu One is still the SSO account infrastructure for Ubuntu.
I was under the impression, perhaps mis-forme
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 15:19 -0500, Robert Schroll wrote:
> > 9) It should be possible to sync the library, reading positions etc
> > to a
> > central source
>
> I purposefully architected Beru so that the reading positions and other
> settings were stored in their own U1DB that could be synchron
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Neil McPhail
wrote:
The app is an ebook reader, and should be capable of displaying books
in a
variety of formats (epub, txt, mobi etc). It should also have a
text-to-speech engine, and the displayed text should follow the
text-to-speech engine in real time. The
On Mon, February 1, 2016 3:33 pm, Neil McPhail wrote:
> Hello list
>
> I love my Ubuntu phone, but there are still some glaring deficiencies in
> the APIs, frameworks and lifecycle management which cause frustrations for
> users and developers. I thought it would be fun to set a challenge to the
>
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