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[Aaron <drakaar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh great! So Browser and homepage will be part of the customization tarball
as well?

Do I have to use the code, or is this documented somewhere?

Thanks again!


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Chris Wayne <chris.wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Browser bookmarks + homepage are already in, as is UI widget theming
> (well, at least the mechanism for doing the theming.  the actual colors
> haven't been changed much, but they could be very easily).  As for the
> bootloader animation, the current customization images have no plan for
> that quite yet
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Aaron <drakaar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Will the customization also include browser bookmarks, contacts (i.e.
>> Voicemail, Customer Service), bootloader animation, UI widget look and feel
>> (i.e. buttons, progress bar, spinners, selectors, menu items)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Matthew Fischer <
>> matthew.fischer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> tl;dr - We are testing mechanisms for downstreams to be able to
>>> customize Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> I'm part of a team that's working on Ubuntu image customization.  Image
>>> customization is the process by which a downstream[1] can add things or
>>> change default values for a device.
>>>
>>> Some examples of what could be customized are:
>>>
>>>    - Default wallpaper
>>>    - Default ringtones
>>>    - Additional applications
>>>    - Additional scopes
>>>    - Sample content
>>>    - Additional fonts
>>>    - Launcher icons reordering, added, removed, etc
>>>
>>> The customization tarball that we build is the mechanism that we will
>>> use to do this. Customization does not entail modifying the core OS bundle,
>>> although we do have some hooks in the core bundle that enable
>>> customization. All customization files live in /custom and are installed
>>> using the same process that the rest of the system is installed.
>>> Customization will only work on ubuntu-system (system-image update) images,
>>> not the legacy builds.
>>>
>>> In order to begin testing customization we've made a fake carrier called
>>> "RingTel". You can make your Ubuntu phone look like a device from RingTel
>>> by installing the saucy-customized or saucy-proposed-customized channels.
>>> Everything we have in that bundle is sample stuff, just for us to test the
>>> customization methods and it's not intended to resemble anything like a
>>> shipping device. We expect things in there to frequently change and
>>> probably break as we continue experimenting, but if you find a problem,
>>> please file a bug against sevilerow<https://bugs.launchpad.net/sevilerow/+filebug> or
>>> ping mfisch, cwayne, or ssweeny in #ubuntu-touch.
>>>
>>> 1: A common downstream use case would be an OEM or carrier, but really,
>>> anyone wanting to do a respin would use the same mechanism
>>>
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