Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Defining Click framework(s) for 13.10

2013-09-18 Thread David Barth
Le 18/09/2013 16:31, Loïc Minier a écrit : [...] Also, do we want multiple frameworks, notably for webapps or for cordova? A quick reply on that question: the 2 packages represent the 2 parts of what an HTML5 app can use locally: the UI toolkit (ubuntu-html5-theme), or the low-level platform ac

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

2013-09-30 Thread David Barth
Le 30/09/2013 09:26, Michael Zanetti a écrit : Additionally, some libraries in Ubuntu apparently don't ship static files in their -dev packages. Once again, we could build those statically by hand and include them but that's the kind of thing I was hoping to avoid as an outcome of this discussion

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

2013-10-21 Thread David Barth
Le 21/10/2013 17:12, Olivier Tilloy a écrit : On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: On 10/21/2013 05:58 AM, Olivier Tilloy wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Omer Akram mailto:omer.ak...@canonical.com>> wrote: Hello! webbrowser-app-autopilot depends on ub

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] unable to install ubuntu-sdk

2014-01-07 Thread David Barth
Le 07/01/2014 11:21, Yogesh Pathade a écrit : Hi, I am trying to install ubuntu-sdk on Ubuntu 13.04. However I am getting unmet dependencies error The following packages have unmet dependencies: ubuntu-sdk : Depends: qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova but it is not going to be installed E: Unabl

[Ubuntu-phone] WebApps Team status update - January 17

2014-01-21 Thread David Barth
* Prepare to update webapps-core in conjonction with the rest of the webapps stack -- David Barth Engineering Manager, Product Strategy -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More

[Ubuntu-phone] Status Update - WebApps Team - January 24

2014-01-28 Thread David Barth
distinct application API keys, rather than relying on our central keys Click webapps * Debugging of the AP test suite issues (autopilot patch avaialable now, thanks QA team!) * -- David Barth Engineering Manager, Product Strategy -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Converting accounts-plugin-ubuntuone to click (Was Re: universe vs. main packages in the image)

2014-01-31 Thread David Barth
Le 30/01/2014 19:44, Mike McCracken a écrit : On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Chris Wayne wrote: I think accounts-plugin-evernote and accounts-plugin-ubuntuone should be converted to clicks instead, as soon as support lands Hi Chris, I'm one of the maintainers for the u1 plugin, and this is

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 03.02.2014

2014-02-03 Thread David Barth
Le 03/02/2014 14:36, Didier Roche a écrit : Ok, some follow up: the image #162 failed to build due to ubuntu-html5-theme package that was supposed to not be uploaded that entered the archive, making the Touch image not buildable. Can you provide a pointer to the build failure? I'd like to kno

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Weird problem after application published via developer portal

2014-02-26 Thread David Barth
Le 26/02/2014 07:57, Shuduo Sang a écrit : On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Shuduo Sang wrote: I have done a simple UI app to wrap an HTML5 music playback website by UbuntuWebView component. It works great wherever on my PC or real hardware running Ubuntu for Phone when I test it. But after

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Weird problem after application published via developer portal

2014-02-27 Thread David Barth
Le 27/02/2014 17:36, Shuduo Sang a écrit : On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:11 PM, David Barth wrote: Le 26/02/2014 07:57, Shuduo Sang a écrit : On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Shuduo Sang wrote: I have done a simple UI app to wrap an HTML5 music playback website by UbuntuWebView component. It

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] CI Train improvements

2014-03-12 Thread David Barth
Le 12/03/2014 16:42, Didier Roche a écrit : * Ability to reconfigure yourself your silos if you don't add new components -> Adding commits just need a rebuild. However, if you add/drop MPs, you had to ask for a "silo reconfiguration" from the landing team. This is going to be available to the la

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Triggering on-screen keyboard with HTML5 SDK

2014-03-24 Thread David Barth
Le 22/03/2014 00:16, Robert Schroll a écrit : Hi all, I'm working on a crossword client using the HTML5 SDK. Obviously, being able to enter letters is important, so the on-screen keyboard should be visible whenever the user is working on a puzzle. But I can't figure out how to trigger it to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Ubuntu-phone[ Ubuntu App Showdown

2014-03-26 Thread David Barth
Le 26/03/2014 08:53, Зонов Роман a écrit : I want to use U1DB in my project, which is bonus for my app. But, on the other hand, desktop doesn't support U1DB. What is the best solution? Use LocalStorage or something else? You should be able to use U1DB on both form factors. What makes you think t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Priority of work items relating to "reserved" policy groups

2014-03-27 Thread David Barth
Le 27/03/2014 15:59, Daniel Holbach a écrit : Hello everybody, right now we have a couple of work items which block apps using certain policy groups. Up until now we have allowed some (trusted) apps into the store which make use of that functionality. Other apps we had to keep on hold. This i

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 08.04.14

2014-04-08 Thread David Barth
Le 08/04/2014 18:26, Didier Roche a écrit : Hey, Summary of the day: an image built since yesterday evening and another one on the way. We spotted some regressions that were kicked off. Few progress on blockers though. #281: - fix for keyboard delete acceleration as well as laggy keyboard so

[Ubuntu-phone] Status update - Webapps Team - April 24

2014-04-25 Thread David Barth
* Status Update - WebApps Team - April 24 Quick status update after the last weeks spent on preparing the LTS release. The focus was mostly on landing the new Oxide-based webapps. A huge thanks to all involved, and in particular the extraordinaire Chris Coulson for the Oxide runtime*.* W

[Ubuntu-phone] Webapp developers - Container switch to using Oxide *only*

2014-05-30 Thread David Barth
This is a heads up for Webapp developers. We would like to switch all webapps to the Oxide runtime. as soon as possible. The webapp-container has switched to Oxide for a few months and the feedback is generally very good. Oxide is performing much better, with a score close to 500 on the html

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Webapp developers - Container switch to using Oxide *only*

2014-05-30 Thread David Barth
Le 30/05/2014 16:31, Sam Bull a écrit : On ven, 2014-05-30 at 14:49 +0200, David Barth wrote: The webapp-container has switched to Oxide for a few months and the feedback is generally very good. Oxide is performing much better, with a score close to 500 on the html5test scale. I get a score of

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Webapp developers - Container switch to using Oxide *only*

2014-05-30 Thread David Barth
Le 30/05/2014 16:45, Olivier Tilloy a écrit : On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Sam Bull wrote: On ven, 2014-05-30 at 14:49 +0200, David Barth wrote: The webapp-container has switched to Oxide for a few months and the feedback is generally very good. Oxide is performing much better, with a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Webapp developers - Container switch to using Oxide *only*

2014-06-05 Thread David Barth
Le 30/05/2014 14:49, David Barth a écrit : This is a heads up for Webapp developers. We would like to switch all webapps to the Oxide runtime. as soon as possible. The webapp-container has switched to Oxide for a few months and the feedback is generally very good. Oxide is performing much

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Background services: a problem that we need to face

2014-06-25 Thread David Barth
Le 25/06/2014 13:52, Jamie Strandboge a écrit : On 06/25/2014 05:36 AM, Florian Will wrote: ... Obviously, most users are not interested in control and transparency, they just want a phone that works and lasts long with a single charge. So I do accept the very strict and conservative Ubuntu Tou

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Background services: a problem that we need to face

2014-06-25 Thread David Barth
Le 25/06/2014 18:34, Benjamin Zeller a écrit : If they were native apps pushing the audio through the backend instead, it should already work today (ie, the same way the Music app itself works). Just playing the stream over the backend won't be enough for Grooveshark at least, looking at the API

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] URL dispatcher in webbrowser

2015-10-19 Thread David Barth
It's not so much the protocol that need overriding in that case, but particular URLs. This is the role of url-dispatcher. On the desktop, we have the Chrome extension which offers to open a webapp when a particular URL is navigated to. And there is a prototype silo with that feature ported to the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] impossible to install 15.04 SDK using chroot on 14.04.3 LTS

2015-12-09 Thread David Barth
Mattias, You need ubuntu-sdk-14.10 or superior, so ubuntu-sdk-15.04 is the one to go with Cordova now. 14.04 lacked device support and can only build desktop applications. I re-ran the tests in a clean LTS container, using the cordova-ubuntu PPA. Please make sure to have cordova-cli-4.3.1-ubuntu4

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] Cordova sed error while trying to build for 15.04

2016-01-04 Thread David Barth
Hi Ferdinand, The issue you are having is due to a too recent upstream cordova-cli. Cordova has changed quite a bit in how the core interacts with platforms and this is one of the issues that was created. You can run cordova 5.4.1 or newer, but be sure to install cordova-lib@6.0.0-dev which has t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] Cordova sed error while trying to build for 15.04

2016-01-05 Thread David Barth
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Ferdinand Holzner < ferdinandholz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > thank you very much. > > Not sure how to install cordova-lib 6.0, but I've added the cordova-ubuntu > from git to my project and now it's working. Finally i see the nice little > cordova logo on

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] Cordova sed error while trying to build for 15.04

2016-01-07 Thread David Barth
Hey Mattias, On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Mattias wrote: > Here is a summary of my experience with cordova installation: > >- installing cordova-cli via the ppa ( >https://launchpad.net/~cordova-ubuntu/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages) >does not work on Ubuntu 15.10 (wily) since ther

[Ubuntu-phone] Cordova Ubuntu 4.3.2 release

2016-01-08 Thread David Barth
Hello, I am happy to announce that `Cordova Ubuntu 4.3.2` has now been officially released. This is a patch release, with several usability improvements and an update of the default framework to ubuntu-sdk-15.04. To upgrade: npm install -g cordova cd my_project cordova platform updat

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Cordova Ubuntu 4.3.2 release

2016-01-11 Thread David Barth
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Ferdinand Holzner < ferdinandholz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > thanks. Now this part works fine. I still have some trouble with > installing plugins. I've tried both variants to install them. The one with > org. and so on and the other one. > > http://pastebin.c

[Ubuntu-phone] Update required for Cordova apps

2016-01-29 Thread David Barth
Hi, We have identified an issue in the startup sequence of Cordova applications. The problem is referenced at Launchpad #1539151 . It was due to the use of a deprecated Oxide API that will stop functioning after OTA 9.5 We are in touch with

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Push API

2016-02-09 Thread David Barth
Hey, There is an initial support branch at https://code.launchpad.net/~zaspire/oxide/push-messaging It implements the latest version of the W3C proposal, mostly the one which got feedback from Google, so it may differ from the Firefox API. Mostly It needs a bit more work and a full review from C

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Browser audio will stop if screen is locked or app is switched

2016-03-03 Thread David Barth
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Bill Filler wrote: > > > > On Mar 2, 2016, at 4:54 AM, Olivier Tilloy > wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:37 AM, François DM wrote: > >> Dear all, > >> > >> I am having an annoying issue with my BQ Aquaris E5 HD. > >> > >> Basically whenever I listen to p

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Developing Web App in Cordova for Windows and build .click package for Ubuntu Touch

2016-04-18 Thread David Barth
Marco, Ubuntu is a supported target platform for Cordova. >From the CLI, just do: cordova platform add ubuntu Take a look at the Cordova Guide here as well, to make sure you have the right click chroot installed prior to building for the phone. https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/apps/html-5/g

[Ubuntu-phone] Webapps Team Status Update

2014-07-03 Thread David Barth
pad.net/%7Ecordova-ubuntu/+archive/ppa>)fdsfds - New FacebookConnect plugin, Dialog plugin and other non-core plugins work by Zaspire; - The focus is now on push notification support * -- David Barth Engineering Manager -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ub

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Friends has vanished!

2014-07-22 Thread David Barth
Le 22/07/2014 17:43, Alan Pope a écrit : On Tuesday, July 22, 2014, Sam Bull wrote: On mar, 2014-07-22 at 14:42 +0100, Dave Morley wrote: If I close and reopen the webapp, I'm back at the login screen. It won't remember my login at all. Twitter is the only app that doesn't remember my login

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 22.07.14

2014-07-22 Thread David Barth
Le 22/07/2014 19:13, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak a écrit : Hello everyone, Battles with blocking issues continue. Some of the blockers have been already fixed, others have fixes ready in staging branches. Manta devices should now work correctly as #144 included the required branch. Let's hope that

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 25.07.14

2014-07-28 Thread David Barth
Le 28/07/2014 13:55, Sam Bull a écrit : On ven, 2014-07-25 at 23:20 +0200, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote: ** Twitter Web app doesn't store login cookie https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1346960 -> Irritating issue, but not much we can do about it, as it's twitter that caused the change This ha

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team: convenience list of ubuntu landings not yet landed in ubuntu-rtm

2014-08-27 Thread David Barth
o/ I will ask for landing the 3 following ones: - "OA fixes", - Oilivier's performance improvements (since he will be off tomorrow). The third one is special, as it requires the new oxide-1.2 to have made its way into the archive (ongoing): - the new autologin feature currently in silo 7 (line 14

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Webapp options deprecated?

2014-10-08 Thread David Barth
Hi Mitchell, There was a recent code change to accept shor urls of the form domain.tld/* which was not supported before. If you have issues with links opening in the browser, it may also be due to a form of "trampoline" url sites can use to track traffic. Feel free to share a branch with the url

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Webapp Audio

2014-10-08 Thread David Barth
The audio case (as opposed to video) is the one we're focusing one, to support the use case you were describing. Justin (CC'ed) is currently working on that is in a close timezone i assume. Maybe you guys can test his prototype on your app and get this to work more quickly together. Right now, it w

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] New splash screen features

2014-10-08 Thread David Barth
I am having issues with the color values. I am trying to set the color background to the same twitter blue that I have in the webapp icon. I used gimp's color picker and did set the background color to:X-Ubuntu-Splash-Color=#52ade5 However, the icon and background color are quite different when ren

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ownCloud app.

2014-11-17 Thread David Barth
And we also did an Online Accounts workshop last week during UOS. You can consult the slides for reference here: https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/presentation/d/1_BnaAASynFES-kwHoiIh2e9V2nBpYak5h_vmLfAbSIA/edit#slide=id.g1877ebb12_6_0 It covers Apps & Scopes, as well as account providers.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] issues with oxide and QML cache on image 166

2014-11-20 Thread David Barth
I can confirm that this did not happen during silo testing, with a clean device-flash'ed image + ppa on top. As a side note, we're adding click hooks to clean up the cache environment of webapp-container based apps, ie webapps. This is to avoid cases where the application sets cookies and gets con

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Debugging Online Account authentication in a scope

2015-03-18 Thread David Barth
Hi, Regular, as well as hosted Google Apps accounts do work with online accounts and webapps. We have special code to ensure that we follow the whole authentication process with hosted accounts, even if that involved an external authentication service (like U1 for Canonical employees) and 2-facto

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Debugging Online Account authentication in a scope

2015-03-18 Thread David Barth
To turn on debug messages for the signon process, you can shell onto your phone and do: echo "LoggingLevel=2" > ~/.config/signond.conf reboot and follow the logs in /var/log/syslog On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Robert Schroll wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently got a report of an authenticatio

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] webapps and script injection

2015-04-13 Thread David Barth
On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Alan Bell wrote: > Hi all, > > there is a somewhat sparsely documented feature of webapps that allow you > to specify --webappModelSearchPath=. as a parameter of webapp-container in > the .desktop file and have a file called webapp-properties.json in the > projec

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Bug 1249387] Re: hook Oxide into Ubuntu platform API for media-hub

2015-06-01 Thread David Barth
-rc-proposed images (or any images), >and if so, how do I check/confirm it's there? >2. Is there something I need to be doing in order to enable this, that >so far I've missed? > > Thanks, > > Mitchell > > > On 13/04/15 18:37, David Barth wrote: &g

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Bug 1249387] hook Oxide into Ubuntu platform API for media-hub

2015-06-03 Thread David Barth
This is now planned for the next 1.8 release, ie in the next 4 weeks. However, you already have test packages available in https://launchpad.net/~phablet-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa to verify the behavior of your webapp in that mode. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to :

[Ubuntu-phone] Webapps Team - Week of June 5

2015-06-08 Thread David Barth
Webapps Team Status update as of June 5 Webapps - Work on the Javascript Scopes container, in collaboration with Marcus : evaluate V8 and NPM to import compatible libraries (browserify); the prototype showed the extent of work that would be required, compared to re-using the nodejs container; the

[Ubuntu-phone] Webapps Team - Week of June 12

2015-06-15 Thread David Barth
Webapps Team Status update as of June 12 *Webapps* - Javascript Scopes container : work on the nodejs stripped down container; created a few example bindings for scopes data types (columns, previews) via the scopes c++ library. It's a good time now to commit the hello world branch, and switch to u

[Ubuntu-phone] Webapps Team - Week of June 19

2015-06-23 Thread David Barth
Webapps Team Status update for June 19 *Webapps* - Scopes written in Javascript can now say Hello World ! Alex integrated the work from Marcus, the v8-cpp library to bind basic types inside a nodejs-based container - We're still using a static lib made from nodejs at this stage, but looked into ho

[Ubuntu-phone] Webapps Team - Week of June 26

2015-06-30 Thread David Barth
*Webapps* - Continued work on scopes bindings with node / io.js : added support for preview and category renderers. then Alex was off for a few days - Discussion on the security requirements (and maintenance policy) for a v8 based scopes container *Online Accounts* - Fix for the 'state'parameter t

[Ubuntu-phone] Webapps Team - Week of July 3

2015-07-07 Thread David Barth
Webapps Team Status update for July 3 *Oxide & HTML5 Apps* - Fix for the 5M limit on Gmail uploads (bug #1426581) - Push Notification submitted for review and integration in Oxide - Accelerometer branch rework, Webnotifications review / rework - Work on new misc. Oxide branches: vibration support,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] How clear cache and cookies of WebApp? (Gmail WebApp)

2015-08-13 Thread David Barth
We have a set of hooks to delete the cache and cookies when uninstalling webapps. By definition the cache and cookies are re-provisioned by the hosting service when re-installing and running the webapp. As a suggestion, we could make that active for apps like Gmail or other Google apps which may ru

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] Override user agent string in WebApp

2015-08-14 Thread David Barth
Push notifications for webapps is not supported yet. Only Gmail and Twitter currently have some ad-hoc support via the account-polld service. Generic push notifications for webapps is in development, with 2 branches currently lined up for review and integration in Oxide: - https://code.launchpad.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] Override user agent string in WebApp

2015-08-14 Thread David Barth
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Peter Bittner wrote: > Thank you, David, for the elaborate explanation. > > Just for curiosity's sake, can you explain why desktop notification work > with Web browsers and the Ubuntu desktop, without any server-side control > from our side? (e.g web.skype.com wi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 09.11.16

2016-11-10 Thread David Barth
Yann, The Oxide dev. team has been looking into this issue again. We understand this is a real issue for users of those webapps. We would still like to do the right thing and get to the root cause of the problem to lock that down with a proper test. David On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Yann Su