ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Zoltán Balogh <zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/24/2013 12:10 PM, Michel Renon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The "Ubuntu Phone Core Apps Project" has been launched and I have few 
> questions :
>
> - what is the limit date for proposals ?
>
> - should we consider portrait only or portrait&landscape ?
>
> - which screen size should we consider ?
>     - min/max for screen size ?
>     - only for phone, or for tablets too ?
>
> - what are the specs of
>     - notifications ?
>     - integrated copy/paste ?
>     or what is the std UX way for apps to send notifications, 
> copy/paste ?
>
> Btw, it's a great design process, well organized. Sure it'll be a hit !
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michel


I try answer those questions I can answer with high confidence :)

About orientation:

I would recommend to start with the portrait design. Orientation sensor 
handling will arrive to the SDK soon, but it is not there yet. Note that 
the Qt 5.0.0 final release did not contain the good old qtsensors 
module. So we need to be extra cautious that the way we approach the 
sensors are not causing fragmentation or divergence. In this case we 
decided to take the safe road and figure out the future of the qtsensors 
module and related APIs. But it will come, I promise :)

Screen size:

I would suggest to take a look at the resolution independence feature of 
the SDK 
(http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/qml/mobile/resolution-independence.html) 
and try to develop apps independent from the form factor. More display 
size and resolution your app looks good more users will like it :)


Integrated copy/paste?

The clipboard access is one area we are working on right now. You can 
follow the open discussion on the qt-components mailing list 
(http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/qt-components/2013-January/thread.html) 
Our goal is to offer an API compliant solution for the copy/paste feature.


Cheers,

Zoltan