Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-08-07 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Omar B. wrote: > Clearly this is Canonical's first crowdfunding attempt and they lacked the > experience. Not a single person in the world had the experience of pulling a $32M campaign off. We're still doing pretty well, all things considered, and people are not s

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running background services

2013-08-14 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Thomas Voß wrote: > exactly. Some use-cases might not be covered by the background > services we will be offering, but we can collect actual requirements > over time and extend. Also worth remembering given some of the comments: there's an actual Linux distributi

[Ubuntu-phone] Tab widget design

2013-08-16 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Hey there, It was already my intention to get in touch about this to see what's the general feeling, and after seeing Michael Hall's post about the use of the tab widget for indicators as well (http://goo.gl/yJP7Ns), this sounds like a good timing. After experimenting with the phone interface for

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Tab widget design

2013-08-16 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > I recently noticed the misaligned position. I agree that discoverability of > the > tabs is not obvious, but it is also something that once you learn isn't bad. Right, and it's not just how discoverable the concept of the tab is, but al

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The current state of ssh on Ubuntu Touch

2013-09-13 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Some of the overlay filesystems do support writing tomb markers to handle deletions as well. I'm sure you know that, though, so I'm mostly wondering why that was not a good option? Performance? On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:42:36 +0200 > Michael

[Ubuntu-phone] QML support for Go

2013-09-17 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
It's coming! Quick demo: http://youtu.be/FVQlMrPa7lI gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net -- 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] Defining Click framework(s) for 13.10

2013-09-19 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Can we please have these two packages in the -dev list: - qtbase5-private-dev - qtdeclarative5-private-dev Although these packages are "private", they hold fundamental headers of Qt which enables the creation of dynamic meta objects, necessary for bindings such as Go, Python, and even QML its

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

2013-09-19 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Michael Zanetti wrote: > On Thursday 19 September 2013 17:27:08 Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: >> Can we please have these two packages in the -dev list: >> >> - qtbase5-private-dev >> - qtdeclarative5-private-dev >> >> Alth

[Ubuntu-phone] Nexus 4 dead

2013-09-22 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Greetings, The powering on bug happened to me as well, and it's indeed quite dead. Tried all the recommended tricks, and nothing. No red led or anything. Tried several chargers, two official ones, one that provides 2A, 10 secs, 60 secs, nothing. The only recommendation I could find so far is disa

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Nexus 4 dead

2013-09-22 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
a > few hours, and then charge it for a few hours after that, it will > usually come back to it's senses. > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer > wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> The powering on bug happened to me as well, and it's indeed quite

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] phablet-flash ubuntu-system error nexus 7 grouper

2013-09-22 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
That's how it should look like indeed. If you wait a bit longer on the phablet-flash prompt, you'll see that the tool is actually communicating with the device while it's in that screen. On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Christopher Patrick wrote: > i ran phablet-flash ubuntu-system --channel dev

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] What If?

2013-09-23 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Everything is possible given the right amount of time, effort, and understanding. People can run Linux even on bare 8-bit CPUs these days (http://goo.gl/Qtt9sY). On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Abimanyu G wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have just one question. What if i have a device without Android

[Ubuntu-phone] Keyboard not showing up

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Are there any known tricks when the on screen keyboard refuses to show up? gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net -- 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

[Ubuntu-phone] QML Drag & Drop?

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Hi again, Not sure if this is the right forum for this sort of question, so here it goes for now: Drag & drop under QML doesn't seem to work on the phone with the same logic it does on the desktop. For instance, this example taken from [1] works fine on qmlscene on the desktop, but fails on the p

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] QML Drag & Drop?

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
n/music-app/reordering-implementaton-attempt-2 >> >> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely, >> Daniel Holm >> IT Consultant >> Web Developer >> Student >> d.hol...@gmail.com >> http://www.danielholm.se >> >> Den tis 24 sep 2013 16:27:44 sk

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Keyboard not showing up

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Hmm.. I was using the terminal in that case, and tried a few other apps without success. Maybe I should have tried to login into Twitter. :-) On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Alan Pope wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer > wrote: >> Are there any known tricks

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Keyboard not showing up

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
00 > From: omer.ak...@canonical.com > To: gustavo.nieme...@canonical.com > CC: ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Keyboard not showing up > > > The trick is to move away from that app to the Dash and then focus the app > again. Works always for t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Keyboard not showing up

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
trick is to move away from that app to the Dash and then focus the app > again. Works always for the Terminal app for me. > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer > wrote: >> >> Are there any known tricks when the on screen keyboard refus

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] QML Drag & Drop?

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
e whole app crash when I try to drag an item > > The only successful way I have tried to drag an item, is drag it left(or > right) first, then up or down > > > > 2013/9/24 Gustavo Niemeyer >> >> Not having D&D working properly in a touch app is quite a bummer. Is &g

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] QML Drag & Drop?

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
... and it might have some attention before the end of this week. Woohay. On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: > It crashes consistently for me, whether up/down or sideways. > > I've reported the problem at: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/qtubuntu/+bu

[Ubuntu-phone] Running qmlscene from the terminal

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Just had a long debugging session with help from Ricardo Salveti, and he provided a few workarounds that have helped getting qmlscene to be runnable from the terminal (or adb shell). So, for the record, here are a few points to keep in mind if you want to do this: 1) If you are root, run "su - ph

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] QML Drag & Drop?

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
:30 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: > ... and it might have some attention before the end of this week. Woohay. > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer > wrote: >> It crashes consistently for me, whether up/down or sideways. >> >> I've repor

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running qmlscene from the terminal

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Sergio Schvezov wrote: >> 1) If you are root, run "su - phablet" so you get into the right user >> environment > > Do this instead: > sudo -i -u phablet -H If you're root, you can type su - phablet to the same effect, I believe. If there's a significant difference

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running qmlscene from the terminal

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
@ -35,0 +40 @@ +USERNAME=phablet @@ -39 +43,0 @@ -XDG_SESSION_ID=c6 On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:42:31 -0300 > Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: > >> Just had a long debugging session with help from Ricardo Salveti, and >> he p

[Ubuntu-phone] Go + QML on Ubuntu Touch

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Besides the initial fiddling around the desktop file, it all worked very well: http://youtu.be/HB-3o8Cysec Thanks to everybody who chimed in, specially Ricardo Salveti for the hand-holding on the desktop file issue. gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubu

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Go + QML on Ubuntu Touch

2013-09-24 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Robert Park wrote: > Nice video! Thanks! > So what I'm seeing here is a user-facing QML app written in Go. Is it > also possible to write QML components with go (eg, at the SDK level) > and then export those components for QML apps to use? We can write new QML t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Go + QML on Ubuntu Touch

2013-09-25 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: > Can you explain a bit more about this? I don't really see how this video is > related to Go. It just shows the QML particle effect and a MouseArea with Please see the prior demo. It covers a bit more about the Go integration, and it's the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Go + QML on Ubuntu Touch

2013-09-25 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Robert Park wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Gustavo Niemeyer > wrote: >> We can easily write QML types in Go, and it works right now. What we >> cannot do is use Go types without Go. > > I'm a little bit confused -- are you

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Go + QML on Ubuntu Touch

2013-09-25 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Robert Park wrote: > Is this something that you think would stabilise over the next cycle? > Because I would definitely need the QML types I create to be as > generic and re-usable as possible, without forcing everybody > downstream of me to be using Go if they don

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status of PyQt for 14.04

2013-09-29 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
I've had a similar issue running stuff from the terminal. Please see these two threads for the solution: https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg04248.html https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg04231.html On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Roberto Colistete Jr. wrote: > Em 25-09-2013 1

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status of PyQt for 14.04

2013-10-01 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
I haven't realised where is the solution (to call Python script using > PyQt5 inside Ubuntu Touch) in the cited threads. > > "qmlscene" isn't used, instead the QML file is open by Python using > "view.setSource(QUrl.fromLocalFile('pyqmldemo.qml'))&qu

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] PyOtherSide: Asynchronous Python Bindings for Qt 5

2013-10-21 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Or Go! http://github.com/niemeyer/qml On Oct 21, 2013 1:06 PM, "Michał Sawicz" wrote: > On 21.10.2013 21:31, Michael Hall wrote: > >> Is there a reason you are trying to use Python from QML instead of it's >> native Javascript? >> >> While PyOtherSide may work, it's not a supported language o

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Z-order in QML

2013-11-01 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Yes, it's possble. Check this out for details: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtquick/qml-qtquick2-item.html#z-prop On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Николай Шатохин wrote: > Hello. > > Is it possible to set depth of sprite in QML for show one object behind > other and change it dynamically? >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] BUG: Ran out of space while installing ubuntu-sdk/go-qml directly on Nexus 4

2014-03-17 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:04 PM, David Marceau wrote: > ARGH! > I really don't know how you got go binaries to run on ubuntu touch/armhf. Don't worry. The phone environment has been evolving at a fast pace, and I'm behind on having a smooth building procedure for it. We'll have something simple

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] New back button placement, are we serious ?!?

2014-03-26 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
FWIW, that's how Android's 4.4 immersive mode works too: "When immersive full-screen mode is enabled, your activity continues to receive all touch events. The user can reveal the system bars with an inward swipe along the region where the system bars normally appear." https://developer.android.co

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] New back button placement, are we serious ?!?

2014-03-26 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Jouni Helminen wrote: > speaking of Android, their back button is pretty much in the exact same > place - top left. Same with iOS Hmm.. not in the stock images. It's in the left side of the bottom bar. Best possible place for something used all the time. gustavo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] New back button placement, are we serious ?!?

2014-03-26 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Jouni Helminen wrote: > sorry, the Android "up" button in the action bar. Which is what our back > button effectively is, since we have no chronological back >From the document at [1], in the "Back" section: "After the main views of your app, subsequent views wil