Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Questions regarding the App Showdown

2013-08-12 Thread Rick Spencer
I'm not certain that this will work once application insulation is fully in place. I would expect that app armour would keep an application from having access to an arbitrary sqllite db. Cheers, Rick On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Ugo Riboni wrote: >>> Another feature that would be nice to hav

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Help with Ubuntu SDK (QtCreator)

2013-08-13 Thread Rick Spencer
I have had zero luck using the designer. I personally think we may as well hide it since it seems to cause nothing but frustration. The good news is, I find QML so easy to use that I can't imagine a designer would help much anyway. However, that's probably more of a personal preference. Cheers, R

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running background services

2013-08-14 Thread Rick Spencer
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Roberto Colistete Jr. wrote: > Hi, > > Please, let it be clear about Ubuntu Touch : > - currently Apps screen shows "Running Apps" with (not live) miniatures of > open softwares. These softwares are not-focused ? If so, they can be closed > by the system ?

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running background services

2013-08-14 Thread Rick Spencer
It's pretty straight forward, applications simply cannot do any work when they are not in the foreground (for v1). However, don't worry! These cases would be handled by consuming services. There isn't currently an upload service that goes to an arbitrary place, but there is a Friends service that

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running background services

2013-08-14 Thread Rick Spencer
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Roberto Colistete Jr. wrote: > Em 14-08-2013 08:18, Zisu Andrei escreveu: > > IMHO, It is a joke to have in 2013 quad core & 2GB RAM smartphones with > not real multitasking. > I understand your concerns, but I think that they may be a bit premature. As discus

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Notes App

2013-08-22 Thread Rick Spencer
Although, as previously discussed, I don't think your app will be able to access these files due to app insulation. Cheers, Rick On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Günter Schwann wrote: > On Thursday 22 August 2013 09:56:40 Tobias Havla wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Could anybody please point me to the l

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [ergonomy] Improvement for the contacts app

2013-09-22 Thread Rick Spencer
This happens to me in the message app as well. https://bugs.launchpad.net/messaging-app/+bug/1227201 I think it may be more of an overall design flaw rather than a bug in one app. Thoughts? Cheers, Rick On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Renato Filho wrote: > Hi Clement, > > Thanks for the feedb

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

2013-10-24 Thread Rick Spencer
It's been interesting to read all the expected use cases, and also the requirements for application developers. It's good to think hard about how we fulfill these requirements, and do it well. What I liked about Thomas's first iteration of the application life cycle, is that it is clean, simple, c

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

2013-10-24 Thread Rick Spencer
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > On 10/24/2013 02:00 PM, Rick Spencer wrote: > > It's been interesting to read all the expected use cases, and also the > > requirements for application developers. It's good to think hard about > how we > &g

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

2013-10-24 Thread Rick Spencer
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Rasmus Eneman wrote: > Having only a set of default services would be very limiting. > Even if a "music background service" could take streams to support > metronome-like apps, how about Spotify or Grooveshark? > They both have a lot of security built in and you c

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

2013-10-27 Thread Rick Spencer
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Florian Will wrote: > Hi, > > Am 25.10.2013 19:48, schrieb Thomas Voß: > > One thing that strikes me: Instead of trying to solve the problem a > > lot of "won't work" statements are made in this thread, going along > > with a request for removing all of the lifecyc

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Update from r100 to 14.04

2013-11-18 Thread Rick Spencer
Hi Tomas, Updates were temporarily on hold as the CI team moved the lab to new and better place! So, all those servers that verify that an image can be released with high quality had to be taken down, moved, started up, and the services re-installed, restarted. I think they are done or close to do

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing call 3.12.13

2013-12-03 Thread Rick Spencer
Seems like with everything moving we are having a hard time getting a good image out. Any thought to stopping changes that don't address the blockers until we get a good image? Cheers, Rick On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Didier Roche wrote: > Hey, > > So, it seems that image 42 wasn't the a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 20.12.13 and happy holidays!

2013-12-20 Thread Rick Spencer
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak < lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On 2014 Didier Roche will be back as your Landing team guide, as usual. > Hopefully I didn't mess up anything during this final landing week while > filling in for him! > On the contrary, you did

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Messaging app regression?

2014-01-31 Thread Rick Spencer
This happened to me when log files filled up my hard drive. Maybe try deleting log files to reclaim some space and see if it starts working again? Cheers, Rick On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Sam Bull wrote: > On ven, 2014-01-31 at 12:42 +, Alan Pope wrote: > > Works fine on mako #156 her

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Avoiding spying via the microphone and camera [Was: Sharing dynamic informations between the user session and the greeter]

2014-03-11 Thread Rick Spencer
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thomas Voß wrote on 10/03/14 12:36: > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas > > > > ... > >> That would result in you getting cut off a Skype call, for > >> exampl

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 18.03.14

2014-03-19 Thread Rick Spencer
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Kevin Gunn wrote: > > >> * random screen hanging up after a while (Kevin): >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-mir/+bug/1290416 >> >> So we invested quite a bit of time couple of people near a day and have > not been able to reproduce this. We are taking a "keep an

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 18.03.14

2014-03-19 Thread Rick Spencer
ogate, found no crash files etc. He was able to run > > top on it, but i don't think kept the output. > > At this point, we'd need to get the device in this state. He indicated > > it occurred >48hr period...hence my suggestion at soak testing. > > > &g

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team meeting 19.03.14

2014-03-20 Thread Rick Spencer
I agree with Jamie on this one. A music player on a phone or tablet is a pretty critical app, and this bug would make it not annoying, but unusable in most situations. I'd be surprised if we thought that the image was good enough to promote with such a regression, especially before we understand t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ANN: TRAINCON-0 - CITRAIN all stop starting Friday

2014-03-21 Thread Rick Spencer
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > > > I was suggesting 1.) for this special case. Get out one image that > contains the issue, let users know that it is there and block further > promotion of images until we have a fix for the root cause (but keep > landings going (

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Unity8 & Mir update May 20, 2014

2014-05-20 Thread Rick Spencer
Does it not seem that we need to fix the over-sensitivity of the rotation issue that we have currently before we would want to land shell rotation? Cheers, Rick On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Chris Wayne wrote: > Awesome, thanks :) And when there is a call for testing, I'll be sure to > help

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Unity8 & Mir update May 20, 2014

2014-05-20 Thread Rick Spencer
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Michał Sawicz wrote: > On 20.05.2014 18:34, Kevin Gunn wrote: > > But I guess your question is still valid, do we want to hold off landing > > something that might make the sensitivity of rotation more annoying than > > it is atm ? > > It won't make it more annoyin

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 10.07.14

2014-07-14 Thread Rick Spencer
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Selene Scriven < selene.scri...@canonical.com> wrote: > > - In the music player, attempting to seek within a song just > makes it skip to the next song. This used to work. > Interesting ... this was happening to me on the desktop in RB yesterday. Cheers,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Geolocation

2015-04-02 Thread Rick Spencer
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Thomas Voß wrote: > Hey, > > please note that vivid proposed does not contain the Nokia Here > services for network-based positioning. The GPS provider is available, > though, and it might just take some time for standalone GPS to acquire > a fix (specifically from

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sharing

2015-06-02 Thread Rick Spencer
Roman, I think you are trying to import content into your app from what you said here? If so, here is how I did it for my flashcard app: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~rick-rickspencer3/+junk/flash2/view/head:/components/ImportDialog.qml Cheers, Rick On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Roman Shchekin

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] multiple screens in qml

2013-04-08 Thread Rick Spencer
Would PageStack do what you need? http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2013/04/easy-task-navigation-with-pagestack.html Cheers, Rick On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Николай Шатохин wrote: > Hello. > > How can I create multiple screens using QML? I need main menu screen, game > screen, options scr

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] multiple screens in qml

2013-04-08 Thread Rick Spencer
MyCustomComponent { id: custComp //all the fancy stuff is in the file MyCustomComponent.qml } then just push as expected: myPageStack.push(custComp) HTH > > Best regards, > Nick > > > 2013/4/8 Rick Spencer > >> Would PageStack do what you need? >> >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running QML functions in parallel thread

2013-04-16 Thread Rick Spencer
Hi. I'm not sure how your code flows overall, but if you are creating all the buttons at once, you might consider using a Repeater instead of doing it all in javascript. It looks like you might have some kind of list that fires a createButton signal. You could potentially use that list as a model

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running QML functions in parallel thread

2013-04-16 Thread Rick Spencer
eld in this moment - > destroing slow too. Is quickly removing possible? Can I destroy repeater? > > > 2013/4/16 Николай Шатохин >> >> Oh, I didn't know that. I'll try. >> >> >> 2013/4/16 Rick Spencer >>> >>> Hi. >>> >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Getting start

2013-04-19 Thread Rick Spencer
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Paulo Pires wrote: > Helo all. > > I'm very interested in software development for the ubuntu mobile/phone. > I've read the > http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/app-developer-cookbook/mobile/currency-converter-phone-app/ > "tutorial" and i was wondering if there

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Simulator

2013-04-26 Thread Rick Spencer
There are also sensors, rotation, and other things that would be nice to test while still on your desktop via a simulator. I suspect these features will come in time. Cheers, Rick On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Николай Шатохин wrote: > Yes I know, but problem in screen resolution and dpi. I do

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Inspiration needed!

2013-06-05 Thread Rick Spencer
One thing that I have found helpful in the past is a kind of "Rosetta Stone". That is, a list of "if you used to do that, now do this" For example, "if you used to present a message box, use a notification. If you used to use a dialog box, push a page. If you used to use a toolbar, use toolActions

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status of 100 scopes and touch landing to saucy

2013-06-07 Thread Rick Spencer
\o/ On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Didier Roche wrote: > Le 06/06/2013 18:59, Didier Roche a écrit : > > > Hopefully the latest report before telling "it's in saucy now". > > > "It's in saucy now". \o/ > > When you will read those lines, the 100 scopes, unity 7 and a big chunk of > the touch por

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Saucy is out, but take a minute to read

2013-06-14 Thread Rick Spencer
I logged this bug today: https://bugs.launchpad.net/touch-preview-images/+bug/1191144 Probably the same thing. This was after running through these test cases: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/270/builds/46502/testcases Cheers, Rick On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Robert Park wro