Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] 2014-02-21 Core apps update

[John Kim]

Hey Nicholas,

Can you help me get started? I'm itching to contribute to the mobile sphere of Ubuntu. 

Thanks. 

On February 26, 2014 10:53:04 AM PST, Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:
>There's some useful bits in here for those who might have missed the 
>update. We are always looking for folks interested in working alongside
>
>these teams in helping write and maintain tests for the core apps. Send
>
>me a mail and I can help you get started!
>
>Nicholas
>
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: 	[Ubuntu-phone] 2014-02-21 Core apps update
>Date: 	Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:27:08 +0000
>From: 	Alan Pope <alan.pope at canonical.com>
>To: 	ubuntu-phone <ubuntu-phone at lists.launchpad.net>
>
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>Update from last week.
>
>Much of this week was spent testing apps in landscape mode on Nexus 10
>(manta) and Nexus 7 (flo). Nexus 7 found especially problematic in
>landscape due to the vertical space being less than that on our
>initial target device - Nexus 4. Some apps need a little redesign to
>work when when ran on these form factors. On the positive side this
>was a great way for us to throw some of the convergence ideas around
>and resolve those issues.
>
>Kunal is working on much needed performance improvements to Calendar
>after some simple profiling in QtCreator. I'd recommend all Core Apps
>developers to profile all aspects of their applications as there are
>some things to learn and real gains to be made here.
>
>Many apps received a new icon - not all have landed in store yet, but
>all are in-flight. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1281781
>
>We also had a not insignificant amount of pain from moving to cmake.
>Mising icons, missing plugins, plain broken apps. Lessons have been
>learned!
>
>One ongoing alarms issue with EDS has prevented Clock and Calendar
>updates from landing.
>
>== Reminders ==
>
>* Lots of work to get Reminders working well on a tablet / landscape
>interface. Iterated through a few options but ultimately identified a
>gap in the SDK where multi-pane apps are concerned. Worked around for
>now so as to deliver a robust experience for MWC demos. Further work
>required to make better use of space.
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1281604 - "Add a workaround to get
>back to the home view"
>* Implement sorting
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1279779 - "Reminders tab needs
>sorting by date and time"
>* Allow attaching of images to notes
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1277557 - "Adding images with the
>content hub does not work"
>* Font Improvements
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1273111 - "Font size in notes must be
>bigger"
>
>== Music ==
>
>* Added search functionality!
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/music-app/+bug/1269037 - "Provide search
>functionality"
>* Fix issues caused by the cmake transition
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1284025 - "Music app 356 on mako
>image 206 doesn't play music launched from dash 1st time"
>* Bug fixes resulting from testing on Nexus 7 and Nexus 10
>
>== Calendar ==
>
>* Added reminder support
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240539 - "Reminder doesn't work"
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1270241 - "Add the ability to set
>the reminder time"
>* Removed the sidestage hint so calendar now runs in main stage on
>Nexus 7/10
>* We had an issue
>* Performance improvements to year view underway after profiling
>
>== Clock ==
>
>* Alarms have landed!
>* Some bugs found in Alarms functionality ;)
>* Additonal autopilot tests.
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-clock-app/+bug/1188809 -
>"Autopilot Testcase needed: Add alarm"
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-clock-app/+bug/1188810 -
>"Autopilot Testcase needed: Remove alarms"
>* UI improvements
>* Performance improvments under idle conditions
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199073 - "clock app on galaxy nexus
>generates ~2500 context switches a second"
>* First cut at converged view of clock
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-clock-app/+bug/1174575 - "Clock
>app does not adapt well to landscape view"
>
>== Weather ==
>
>* Finally landed The Weather Channel backend!
>* Went through many iterations of testing working on implementing
>community designed converged view for tablets, which landed in time or
>MWC
>
>== Terminal ==
>
>* Finally fixed the long standing bug thanks to dandrader, vthompson
>and sil2100!
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-terminal-app/+bug/1257791 "Enter
>and backspace broken in terminal
>* Moved settings from tab to panel
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1257871 - "Settings should be an
>icon on the toolbar instead of a tab"
>
>== RSS Reader ==
>
>* Updated converged grid view for tablets
>* App renamed to "Shorts"
>
>== File Manager ==
>
>* Add desktop oriented features
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1195042 "Add ability to open multiple
>tabs"
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1255643 "Allow bookmarks/places bar
>to be collapsed"
>* Remove deprecated properties
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1275061 "ListItems.Standard.icon and
>ListItems.Base.icon are deprecated"
>
>Cheers,
>-- 
>Alan Pope
>Engineering Manager
>
>Canonical - Product Strategy
>+44 (0) 7973 620 164
>alan.pope at canonical.com
>http://ubuntu.com/
>
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