Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Any offline map application / existing Ubuntu app that can be used ?

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Martin Fasani wrote: > Question: > I would love to have an offline map when I get lost in Berlin: > http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe/western_europe/germany/berlin#downloads_breadcrumbs > > Possible to use any application to open an OSM Open streets map ? Earl

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Any offline map application / existing Ubuntu app that can be used ?

Thanks all, I will try to test Marble for the offline maps thing. And thanks Fabian, testing your code sounds good too, if you have some minutes just drop me an email. Just wondering, is out there any Public wish-list, where we can post Usability enhancements and other things that arise when we

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Any offline map application / existing Ubuntu app that can be used ?

Issue: - can't change DNS server via GUI, only in terminal - can't import contacts via GUI 23.10.13 11:28 Martin Fasani написал(а): Thanks all, I will try to test Marble for the offline maps thing. And thanks Fabian, testing your code sounds good too, if you have some minutes just drop me an

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Rasmus Eneman wrote: >>I do disagree with requiring the user to interact with the system to >>ensure longer battery life. We should try as hard as possible to make >>this automagically work. > >>For a tech-savvyy audience: Yes. For everyday users I do disagree. In

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > Pulling in Zoltan, Daniel and David for comment > > On 10/22/2013 05:40 AM, Thomas Voß wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:33 PM, John Lea wrote: >>> From a design point of view, the guidance we are currently following is: >>> >>> - Only

[Ubuntu-phone] Resuming landing of our upstream components on trusty: last steps

Hey guys, We're almost ready on resuming landing upstream components to trusty, most delays were due to late release name announcements impacting us in multiple ways. So, normally, where are we? This morning we finished: - ensuring that all cowboys upload to distro without using upstream tru

[Ubuntu-phone] First Trusty image available for testing

Hi all, Trusty image 3 (20131022.1) is now available via the trusty channel. We don't currently support OTA updates from saucy to trusty, so you'll need to update via a cable, for example like this:- phablet-flash ubuntu-system --channel trusty Once you switch channel to trusty you can then use

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Any offline map application / existing Ubuntu app that can be used ?

Hi, I have put up the source code with tiny instructions here: https://code.launchpad.net/~fherb/+junk/pam Usual procedures for compiling and running apps on the phone apply. Future plans include creating click a package of course. Have fun! Let me know what you think or if you need further as

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Any offline map application / existing Ubuntu app that can be used ?

On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 09:28 +0200, Martin Fasani wrote: > * > Another recommendation will be to move the navigation bar on > the top. I see no innovation in doing it the opposite way: > it's just not natural to have it on the bottom > Controls for ALL apps are hidden

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 11:09 +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Rasmus Eneman wrote: > >>my point of view is still that forcing every little small app to bring its > >> own > >>daemon will: > >> > >>a) scare off people for writing apps for our platform as the communication

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Porting, initramfs-tools] initrd: Couldn't find data partition.

Hi, it is difficult to properly continue with the porting effort for other samsung devices unless the partition names "UA" for data partition and "AP" for system partition are added. Please someone reroll a new ubuntu-touch-generic-initrd ASAP. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-to

[Ubuntu-phone] up-to-date Ubuntu image for touch

Hi, all. There used to be some place to download the ubuntu image for touch as below The latest Ubuntu image can be found here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/daily-preinstalled/current/ But now the image is not up to date. I'm wondering if there's anywhere to get the up to date

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Porting, initramfs-tools] initrd: Couldn't find data partition.

hi Am Mittwoch, den 23.10.2013, 15:56 +0200 schrieb Marcel Partap: > Hi, > it is difficult to properly continue with the porting effort for other > samsung devices unless the partition names "UA" for data partition and > "AP" for system partition are added. Please someone reroll a new > ubuntu-touc

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Porting, initramfs-tools] initrd: Couldn't find data partition.

No prob.. > i'll take care the fix lands in trusty this week ... this means nuking(*) the current checkout? no easy way to feed these four letters into the ramdisk? #Regards! (*) git://phablet.ubuntu.com/CyanogenMod/android.git only has a phablet-saucy atm.. need to wait until a trusty branch appe

[Ubuntu-phone] Fwd: up-to-date Ubuntu image for touch

-- Forwarded message -- From: François Leblanc Date: 2013/10/23 Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] up-to-date Ubuntu image for touch To: leon lee Think the name change for trusty -xxx instead of saucy-xxx François 2013/10/23 leon lee > Hi, all. > There used to be some place to dow

[Ubuntu-phone] [Design] Selection mode

Hello, My team and I are developing a Bible app for Ubuntu Touch [1]. What I want is a way to select a verse and do various things to it, such as adding notes, bookmarking it, or sharing it. What is the best way to do this? Here are two ways I can think of doing this: 1) Tap a verse and an Actio

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

On 10/23/2013 04:09 AM, Thomas Voß wrote: class MyBackgroundService : public ubuntu::Component { public: // From ubuntu::Component void on_new_message(const Message& message) override; const std::string& name() const override { return "MyCoolBackgroundServic

[Ubuntu-phone] [Design] Showing audio controls for reading text in an app

Hello, My team and I are developing a Bible app for Ubuntu Touch [1]. We would like to have audio Bibles, either by providing the audio files or by using text-to-speech. My question is, how should this be integrated into the UI in a way that meets the design guidelines? I would like to be able t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] up-to-date Ubuntu image for touch

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:00 AM, leon lee wrote: > There used to be some place to download the ubuntu image for touch as below > The latest Ubuntu image can be found here: > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/daily-preinstalled/current/ > > But now the image is not up to date. I'm won

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] First Trusty image available for testing

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Alan Pope wrote: > Hi all, > > Trusty image 3 (20131022.1) is now available via the trusty channel. > > We don't currently support OTA updates from saucy to trusty, so you'll > need to update via a cable, for example like this:- > > phablet-flash ubuntu-system --c

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Library dependency support in click packages?

Hi all, With the saucy/1.0 release behind us and a fresh cycle ahead of us I thought I'd revisit this conversation and see how we can move forward. I've been able to make a bit of progress on this issue, and in the specific case of the scope I was working on I managed to get the outside dependenc

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

On 23.10.2013 16:42, Andy Doan wrote: This is the type thing I'm needing to make it eaier to port an application I wrote for Android[1]. It would also be really nice if we provided some helper code for scheduling sync/alarm type services. ie - "call this method in about 20 minutes". If you do tha

[Ubuntu-phone] Predictive text

Hello, I just wanted to know how I can enable Predictive text in some easy way. I've seen someone has taken care of this here: https://code.launchpad.net/~attente/ubuntu-system-settings/enable-predictive-text I would wait until gets in the next updates, but I need to write text in German, and a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

I haven't participated much in Ubuntu Touch yet, and all of this is very new to me, but my impression is that whenever my app becomes "invisible" to the user, for any reason, I can no longer expect it to be running. So, if I were to write either a metronome or a GPS tracker of some kind, then I wo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

On 10/23/2013 08:27 AM, Ted Gould wrote: > On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 11:09 +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Rasmus Eneman > > wrote: >> >>my point of view is still that forcing every little small app to bring its >> >> own >> >>daemon will: >> >> >>

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Predictive text

On 10/23/2013 12:57 PM, Martin Fasani wrote: Hello, I just wanted to know how I can enable Predictive text in some easy way.

[Ubuntu-phone] [development] Need ubuntu expert

Hy Trying port ubuntu touch to crespo (Nexus S) and get black screen. Surely 70-crespo.rules is not correct but I absolutly don't know what to put on it... so I make a copy of 70-GT-I9100.rules I got a black screen with .xsession-errors init: Unable to register as subreaper: Invalid argument

[Ubuntu-phone] Alarm any way to make it work ?

Trying to make the system Alarm work. No chance to make it work! The main problem is that the Save button at the bottom does not work. Other than that it would be nice to have a way to repeat "Working days" like Monday-Fridays. Please get this basic thing fixed! I need to get up every morning.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] up-to-date Ubuntu image for touch

On 23 October 2013 15:00, leon lee wrote: > Hi, all. > There used to be some place to download the ubuntu image for touch as below > The latest Ubuntu image can be found here: > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/daily-preinstalled/current/ > > But now the image is not up to date. I'm

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] camera-app vs. webbrowser-app autopilot dependencies

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Steve Langasek < steve.langa...@canonical.com> wrote: > """Return the command to launch qmlscene for autopilot tests.""" > # We need to specify qt5 because qtchooser doesn't have a default > # configuration on devices and it seems the environment varia

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] camera-app vs. webbrowser-app autopilot dependencies

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 06:37:55PM -0600, Leo Arias wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Steve Langasek < > steve.langa...@canonical.com> wrote: > > """Return the command to launch qmlscene for autopilot tests.""" > > # We need to specify qt5 because qtchooser doesn't have a default

[Ubuntu-phone] Launching applications within GDB

Hi all, I'm currently in the process of attempting to create a port of MeeSpot (a MeeGo spotify client) for Ubuntu Touch, however while it runs fine on my desktop it's crashing at launch when executed on the phone. It'd be very helpful if I could run the application within gdb to see what's going

[Ubuntu-phone] Support for Python development

Hi all, I'm interested in porting a few of my MeeGo applications to Ubuntu Touch, principle amongst these being Rockwatch, which makes it possible to use Pebble smart watches with MeeGo (and hopefully soon also with Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish). It'd be impractical to rewrite the application in C++

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Support for Python development

On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 03:30 +0100, Mike Sheldon wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm interested in porting a few of my MeeGo applications to Ubuntu > Touch, principle amongst these being Rockwatch, which makes it possible > to use Pebble smart watches with MeeGo (and hopefully soon also with > Ubuntu Touch a