Another JIT status report
UI
Grid-layout / html Home Screen: Working now. Recognizes theme and
background change. Requires hildon-theme-mobile-basic for button button
background graphics. Still to be done:
- Set the default theme as this UI reads the theme from gconf and
currently UME default theme is the non-existent Human theme.
- show some small animated gif when application is launching
- listen for notification when application has completed launching
to turn off animation
- Request upload into gutsy
If you install the latest mobile-basic-flash package from moblin.org you
will get this UI by default.
Clutter Home Screen: Have got it working on my Q1 after getting the
hardware accel driver. Clutter 0.4+ libraries have been included in
gutsy
Current issues:
- Touch screen isn't sensitive enough to give me the light iPhone
touch feeling. I often have to use my fingernail to grab the objects
- UI is jerky. When you try to roll the objects left/right they
stall, then burst.
- actor objects often get misplaced and then bunched at the
beginning
- location highlight at the bottom of the screen is misplaced
- big animation look a little to Apple-MAC like. We'd like to get
it to look more like a rolling ring of icons
- the /etc/xdb/menus/*.menu file doesn't match well with our
applications. We need to add a "MobileApp" category to applications and
filter them for showing on the home screen
- when launching the applications the code to detect if it was
successfully launched is imperfect
Theme: Chatted with Ken about theme. He is highly frustrated with
our current status and apparent miscommunication. Need to resolve how
to get something in the short term and then fix the long term process
issues.
Bug with current flash UI: We found and fixed the performance but
with the flash UI.
Media Viewer: Have new graphics we are trying to put into
application/UI. Many new features working now including thumbnail view.
Other comments:
- I built LPIA build again this and still no Hildon Claws. We put a
couple of guys on this to try and get a last-minute upgrade of basic
features and it would be nice if we could see the Hildon version in our
images.
From last week's To Do:
1) Get Grid-layout UI usable. Any day now. I assumed it would be
yesterday but ran into small bugs around changing the background
repeatedly. Should checkin today. (Done)
2) Make sure we resolve the performance bug. Hopefully this goes
away with the non-flash UI. We will still try to resolve, but it will
fall to a lesser priority. (Done)
3) Go through remaining UI elements and finish bug fixing for gutsy
launch. Mainly: marquee needs tweaking, theme needs to be completed.
(Still in progress)
4) Start work to get clutter UI to a usable state so people can
start commenting and we can discuss the exciting post-gutsy future of
the home screen! (Lots of work ahead)
Bob
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