Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ANNOUNCEMENT: Landers! CI Train redeployed to support the RTM distribution + more

2014-08-14 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 22:14 +0200, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote: > 1. Whenever a new landing is added there is a new column that needs to > be filled from now on. The column name is "Target distribution". From > the drop-down menu you can currently select one from "ubuntu/utopic", > "ubuntu/trus

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 18.08.14

2014-08-18 Thread Ted Gould
On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 19:36 +0200, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote: > The ubuntu-app-launch cgroup-enabled issue that's > causing many test failures in our infrastructure has been locked-on and > confirmed, with the most probable current root cause located in > cgmanager or upstart itself. Since th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] HUD

2014-08-18 Thread Ted Gould
On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 23:04 +0530, sampth kumar krishnan wrote: > What happened to the heads up display that used to exist on the trusty > platform? Is it coming back in the next few builds before the rtm? No :-( It got killed by the switch to give applications full control of the bottom swipe,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ownCloud app.

2014-08-26 Thread Ted Gould
On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 16:54 +0200, Fabio Colella wrote: > There is also the problem of background syncing. Is any service > currently available for that? Because it would be really weird if the > user has to wait with the app open while up or downloading.. No, there would need to be an OwnCloud mo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ownCloud app.

2014-08-28 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 19:38 +0200, Daniel Holm wrote: > > No, there would need to be an OwnCloud module that would send Push > > Messages to a subscribed device so that its push helper could setup > > downloads (with appropriate config to whether it should download on > > cell service or wait f

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ownCloud app.

2014-09-04 Thread Ted Gould
On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 22:51 +0200, Michał Sawicz wrote: > Another approach I was thinking of is allowing multiple plugins of the > same account type exist (so every app would ship their own copy) and > deduplicating based on type and compatibility version. This has some > technical difficulties

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Toolkit: preparing to remove dependency towards Unity.Actions

2014-09-04 Thread Ted Gould
On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 17:21 +0300, Zsombor Egri wrote: > We are evaluating the removal of Unity Actions dependency from the > toolkit. This would mean that the components used now by the toolkit > will appear as components exported by the toolkit itself (i.e not from > Unity.Actions). These compone

[Ubuntu-phone] Toy: ubuntu-app-test

2014-09-12 Thread Ted Gould
People have generally felt a little bit restricted with our application lifecycle/containment and wanted to "just run it" more than once. While I will continuously fight back on that as part of the shipping system, I thought it might be fun to make something that would allow for that. So I made a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Push Daemon, Account Notifications and Scopes, Location service

2014-09-16 Thread Ted Gould
By we here you mean that you're going to send the data to the messaging menu and let it determine whether to show it or not, correct? Ted On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 19:33 +0100, John Lenton wrote: > (But we will) > > > On 16 Sep 2014 19:29, "Roberto Alsina" > wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Push Daemon, Account Notifications and Scopes, Location service

2014-09-16 Thread Ted Gould
On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 18:07 -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Ted Gould wrote: > > > By we here you mean that you're going to send the data to the > messaging menu and let it determine whether to show it or no

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Manually setting WIFI connection

2014-09-26 Thread Ted Gould
On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 16:52 +0300, Antti Kaijanmäki wrote: > On 26.09.2014 13:37, Brendan Donegan wrote: > > System Settings > Wi-Fi > Connect to hidden network (is this title > > confusing?) > Enter the SSID and make sure to choose WPA & WPA2 Personal > > > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Ma

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] vivid landings

2014-11-01 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 14:25 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 02:14:05PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Fixes for specific bugs targeted for our upcoming customer-oriented release > > should continue to be landed to ubuntu-rtm/14.09. Anything else that is not > > being land

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] vivid landings

2014-11-03 Thread Ted Gould
On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 01:39 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 12:16:44PM -0500, Ted Gould wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 14:25 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 02:14:05PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > Fixes for

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Usage of Online Accounts by windowless processes (account-polld, sync-monitor, scopes...)

2014-12-02 Thread Ted Gould
On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 14:01 +0200, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > There are a few processes which don't have a connection to Mir but are > using OA; I know of account-polld and sync-monitor, plus the scopes via > the unity-scopes-api, but there might be more. When these processes > request a token and

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Webapp questions

2014-12-10 Thread Ted Gould
ou can see an example in the small webapp I did: https://github.com/ted-gould/nespresso-webapp We do plan to have a user override for this in settings, currently on the TODO list. Currently if you install a webapp that handles the URL it will always handle the URL. > o Is there any

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Some problems with vivid on a Nexus 4

2014-12-21 Thread Ted Gould
On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 13:04 +, Chris Croome wrote: > Another issue I have is the battery draining very fast, the graph goes > down at almost 45 degrees sometimes, with the load average around 3 > (top shows 2 CPU cores) even when I have no apps open and the screen is > off and the phone is in

[Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Phone User: Manager at Braum's

2014-12-22 Thread Ted Gould
Around here we have an ice cream shop call Braum's¹ where yesterday we went to celebrate my son's birthday with his aunt and uncle. When I was checking out I was asked "Have you seen that Ubuntu software on phones?" After realizing the question was prompted by my Ubuntu hat I played dumb a little

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Heads up: default app namespace format has changed

2015-01-16 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 20:03 -0200, Martin Albisetti wrote: > Now that we're approaching convergence with the desktop on the one > hand, and Snappy on the other, it becomes more common (or in the case > of Snappy, the only way!) to interact with apps from a command line. > The reality is, the rever

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Notice for Application Developers regarding Full shell rotation landing soon

2015-02-02 Thread Ted Gould
Is there general guidance about how scopes will be displayed in landscape? Will the two column view be used in most cases? I do realize I could just install the PPA and find out, but I thought the question/discussion might be generally useful for developers. :-) Ted On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 05:10

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sound -indicator UX suggestion

2015-02-17 Thread Ted Gould
On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 21:11 +, Thibaut Dedreuil_monet wrote: > I am suggesting to place the sound-indicator also in the header of the > dash as shown in the attached mockup. I'm not sure what you're suggesting here, and I think your mockup might be slightly corrupted. The sound indicator d

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sound -indicator UX suggestion

2015-02-18 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 05:03 -0800, dedreuil thibaut wrote: > Yes Marco got it. I was talking about the "volume" notification > bubble. 99% of the time i am aware i am modifying the volume and i > just want to know what is my current volume and what is my future > volume. Placing it in the top pane

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Scopes default store behaviour

2015-03-16 Thread Ted Gould
On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 10:11 -0300, Alejandro J. Cura wrote: > My proposal is to find some simple way to give the developer of a > package some control over this option: whether to show the package in > question in the store as a scope or as an app. It seems to me the simplest is just to always a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] using a different build for devel images

2015-03-19 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 11:56 +, John Lenton wrote: > Additionally, I'd like to have debug logs in devel, and just info logs > out of that. Is there a way of doing that too? I have this job that I wrote for system-settings to turn on logging when you're in developer mode. Seb didn't want it in

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Add sources to the news scope

2015-04-06 Thread Ted Gould
On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 08:53 +0200, carl verstraete wrote: > Is it possible to add new sources for the news scope or today scope. > I'm from Belgium, and I'm not interested in Spanisch news. > I would like to add Belgian News sources. > Is it possible? Unfortunately not today, the aggregator scop

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] webapps and script injection

2015-04-13 Thread Ted Gould
On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 04:39 +1000, Mitchell Reese wrote: > Another question re security for webapps - url-dispatcher. Whilst I'm > loving using this, it's also clear how easy it is to create a webapp > that redirects traffic from other places, such as scopes. While I'm > making a point of listi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Media Player

2015-04-20 Thread Ted Gould
On Sun, 2015-04-19 at 11:43 +0200, sturmflut wrote: > Apps are launched via the "ubuntu-app-launch" command. The following > example should point in the right direction: > > phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ ubuntu-app-launch mediaplayer-app > video:///home/phablet/Videos/big_buck_bunny_480p_stereo.ogg >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] opening files imported through content-hub

2015-04-20 Thread Ted Gould
On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 22:59 +0300, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > On 04/18/2015 12:11 AM, Darren Smith wrote: > [...] > > I then try to open the file using quazip but get denied by apparmor: > > > > Apr 17 21:56:31 ubuntu-phablet kernel: [226697.166126]type=1400 > > audit(1429304191 > > .4

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Performance] process message+

2015-07-02 Thread Ted Gould
DBus daemon is just a bus, so it only uses CPU when someone asks it to. It's likely that someone is misbehaving on the bus more than anything. You can call dbus-monitor to get a dump of what is happening on the bus at that time and that would probably give more information to be able to debug it.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] mapplauncher

2015-07-29 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 11:25 +0300, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > On 07/29/2015 07:07 AM, Tyler Hicks wrote: > > This stage is not sufficient since there is no exec() performed > > here. This removes the possibility of per-process address space > > layout randomization (ASLR). All processes on the syst

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] mapplauncher

2015-07-29 Thread Ted Gould
On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 18:45 +0200, Benjamin Zeller wrote: > > The preloader can also create components instead of just parsing them. > Which adds another > performance boost compared to the QML cache. So it seems like the component creation time is the biggest win here, but it seems to vary o

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] mapplauncher

2015-07-29 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 11:06 -0400, Christian Dywan wrote: > How about instead, if you really find that MainView vs Rectangle is 5s > slower, you file a bug, and we can investigate before you start > re-implementing everything only to find that it will be slow again > once it's complete? Sure, cert

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] He called my bluff!

2016-05-22 Thread Ted Gould
On Sun, 2016-05-22 at 17:41 +0100, Gareth France wrote: > I am now writing this on 'what is left' of my £500 laptop after my  > toddler in a fit of temper decided to drag all 17" of it off the > kitchen  > worktop and let it smash onto the floor! Although technically working > I  > personally would

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Convergence and icons

2016-06-09 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 09:40 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: > What is the plan here, will there be desktop icons and device icons > for  > packages? Will the Unity 8 desktop just have everything with square  > icons cropped to a squircle? How does icon consistency work across > form  > factors? I think tha

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Moving to Android 6 base

2016-07-30 Thread Ted Gould
The reason to use the Android drivers is that in many cases they're the only drivers that exist for many of the chips phones are using today. The drivers are (generally speaking) owned by the chip manufacturers, not by Android/Google, they're just using the Android interfaces for writing them. Thos

[Ubuntu-phone] Forcing an output resolution

2016-08-14 Thread Ted Gould
Hey folks, I got a Nexdock and plugged it into my N4, which is really cool¹. The problem I'm having is that it is misdetecting the resolution of the display. It looks like it is trying 1080 on the 720 display. Is there a way that I can force Mir to change the output resolution? Also, the m10 does

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Bileto-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: Bileto no longer blocks on no-change rebuilds

2016-09-05 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2016-09-01 at 09:46 +0300, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > In other words, it happens quite often to me to propose merges which > affects tests only (no code changes to any installed files), and > getting > these changes in is IMHO unnecessarily hard. > > Would it be possible for landers to set

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Development - Porting Ubuntu phone

2016-10-14 Thread Ted Gould
On Fri, 2016-10-14 at 12:09 +, Jerry P wrote: > We would like to port Ubuntu phone to an  ARM Cortex A7 SoC with 256 > MB RAM and NO GPU support. We can strip down most of the graphics > intense features and applications.  The phone mostly will be used by > Elderly people with very limited func

[Ubuntu-phone] Publishing Systemd App Launching

2017-02-03 Thread Ted Gould
Hello, Currently the silo that changes Ubuntu App Launch over to supporting systemd is publishing. This means that all of your applications will start running as systemd jobs instead of Upstart jobs. I imagine most people were expecting this to happen as it puts us on pace to remove Upstart and Cl

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Enterprise Management?

2013-02-25 Thread Ted Gould
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 18:03 -0500, Lewis Donofrio wrote: > Anyone though about Enterprise Management (10 unlock attempts = wipe) > along with DES3 type stuff. Most importantly what about snowstorm > like open source package distribution. > I'm not familiar with snowstorm, but we expect the phon

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Enterprise Management?

2013-02-25 Thread Ted Gould
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 21:36 -0500, Lewis Donofrio wrote: > What I mean is channel management, to sign up for repository, or > package installation or removal. Ah, I see. Since the Ubuntu running on the phone will be very similar to anywhere else running Ubuntu, it's likely most management sys

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] Solution for a password/secret storage

2013-03-19 Thread Ted Gould
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 15:39 +0200, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > On 03/19/2013 02:16 PM, Tony Espy wrote: > > Ah, the devil is in the details. I wouldn't dismiss the benefits of a > > stable working code-base so quickly. > > > > The semantics already exist in code, the secure store piece is known to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Akonadi as alternative to EDS.

2013-03-21 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 22:40 +0200, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > On 03/21/2013 10:22 PM, Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho wrote: > > OBS: This is only a investigation does not mean that we are moving away > > from EDS. > > One thing to consider is that the latest version of EDS supports Ubuntu > Online A

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] shared library packages and dependencies on mobile

2013-05-14 Thread Ted Gould
We expect that applications that need sophisticated dependency schemes will include those dependencies in their own packages. There will be a base image that everyone can depend on, but beyond that, you'll need to BYOD (bring your own dependency). There'll be a difference between packages that a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] shared library packages and dependencies on mobile

2013-05-14 Thread Ted Gould
ange your mind, would you at least be willing to > include the mono runtime in the "base image" you mentioned? This would > allow easy porting of, for example, various MonoGame games that > currently run on various platforms, from iOS, Android, Windows 8, > etc.. > > &g

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] shared library packages and dependencies on mobile

2013-05-14 Thread Ted Gould
e platforms is via a > commercial dual license sold to them by the author of the library, > Xamarin. The LGPL license cannot be used with those app packaging > models either. > > > Regards, > Jeremy > > > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Ted Gould wrote: > &

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] s/qml-phone-shell/unity8/g; or: we've renamed qml-phone-shell to unity8

2013-06-07 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 01:05 +0200, Michał Sawicz wrote: > The code has moved from lp:unity/phablet [1] to lp:unity/8.0 [2]. We've > also reset the history (i.e. started with a clean bzr branch) to not > drag around all the demo assets that we've used in the past. That means > that all the branches

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] System logging

2013-06-10 Thread Ted Gould
On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 10:17 +0200, Michael Zanetti wrote: > I've been thinking about some small daemon that would collect CPU times of > apps and send that to some stats server in an automated manner. I think that > would be very useful. Shouldn't be too hard to create some snapshots every x >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch Summary (week 26)

2013-07-11 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 11:09 -0400, Bill Filler wrote: > If you install latest build (saucy-39) and apt-get update apt-get > dist-upgrade the networking indicator has toggle switches for wifi and 3g. Is there a merge proposal for this somewhere? Or was it just done in the throw away project? Te

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