ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Chris Wayne <chris.wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Thomas Strehl
<thomas.strehl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Scopes
>
> Scopes config and registry are almost fully done. With that we can
> reliably (re-)start scopes or shutdown idle scopes after certain time
> out. Missing is still the automatic detection of newly installed scopes
> (via click). This is something we'll be working on next week.
>
> To enable scopes to update their surfacing content, we are introducing a
> TTL parameter. With that, the dash will send a new empty query
> (surfacing request) to the scope after TTL expired, however, only if the
> scope is actually visible.
>
> After another design review on departments we're now about to finish the
> backend implementation so that saviq can start on the UI. In another
> stream we're picking up the developer experience tasks again, right now
> focusing on integrating scopes click packaging in Qt Creator.
>
> On click scope side we finally landed ratings & reviews. In addition
> there were some smaller enhancements around translations as well as
> making sure we query all apps for all installed frameworks and finally
> showing the app author's name in the preview.
>
>
> Mediascanner
>
> Enhanced mediascanner API to provide all necessary information for music
> app. With that, music app will switch mediascanner version meaning we
> can remove old mediascanner and grilo from phone image.
>

Does that mean album art can come from id3 tags now, rather than from the
lastfm grilo plugin?

>
>
> Indicators
>
> Right now in the process of landing the refactored network indicator.
> Focus of the rewrite was on quality and testability. By utilizing
> connectivity API and enhancing ofono (only distro patch though) with the
> ability to take fake modems into use we can nicely mock and test each
> layer. Properly testing e.g. dual SIM should now be super easy...
>
>
> Thomas
>
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