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[Joshua Strobl <truthfromlies@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think this is a drastic improvement over the existing Clock application, I do have some feedback regarding it:1. With Design starting to utilize the bottom edge, how will the bottom edge be utilized in the clock app?
2. I think the night mode and settings icons (appears to be a settings icon, feel free to elaborate exactly what functionality that button provides) should be placed in the Toolbar / Footer. It cleans up the page slightly and utilizes the Toolbar design. Users will be expecting the buttons to be there, as a lot of core apps properly utilize the Toolbar.

3. I like the clean mix between digital and traditional clock design in the current Clock app. The UI with only the traditional UI does not make it absolutely clear exactly what time it is. I understand there is the digital clock app, but I think it should be something like utilizing the digital clock design (showing HH:MM) for the world clock / other timezones, while maintaining the existing mixture between digital and traditional clock design of the current Clock app for the primary (user) timezone.

4. I like the design of using the background texture instead of a plain #f5f5f5 background color.
- Joshua Strobl

P.S. Sorry Nek, accidentally sent it to only you the first time. Not on my own computer at the moment :D
From: truthfromlies@xxxxxxxxx
To: krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Ubuntu-phone] [Clock] Clock App Reboot
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 01:32:06 +0000




I think this is a drastic improvement over the existing Clock application, I do have some feedback regarding it:
1. With Design starting to utilize the bottom edge, how will the bottom edge be utilized in the clock app?
2. I think the night mode and settings icons (appears to be a settings icon, feel free to elaborate exactly what functionality that button provides) should be placed in the Toolbar / Footer. It cleans up the page slightly and utilizes the Toolbar design. Users will be expecting the buttons to be there, as a lot of core apps properly utilize the Toolbar.

3. I like the clean mix between digital and traditional clock design in the current Clock app. The UI with only the traditional UI does not make it absolutely clear exactly what time it is. I understand there is the digital clock app, but I think it should be something like utilizing the digital clock design (showing HH:MM) for the world clock / other timezones, while maintaining the existing mixture between digital and traditional clock design of the current Clock app for the primary (user) timezone.

4. I like the design of using the background texture instead of a plain #f5f5f5 background color.
- Joshua Strobl

Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 21:32:29 +0200
From: krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx
To: ubuntu-touch-coreapps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; bartosz.kosiorek@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ubuntu-phone] [Clock] Clock App Reboot


  
    
  
  
    Hello everyone,

    

    During the sprint at Malta, I was given new designs for the Clock
    App to make it more aligned with other phone apps like Gallery,
    Dialer etc. The new designs can be seen at
    https://drive.google.com/#folders/0B55Gs35e-jxxNzRzOHVxbmNDbFU. Due
    to the vast amount of design changes and other factors, we (Myself
    and other core apps devs) came to the conclusion that starting fresh
    would be better rather than modifying the old clock app. Some of the
    main reasons behind this decision were,

    
      Timer and Stopwatch are not present in the new clock app. The
        designers do have a plan to introduce Timer and Stopwatch later
        but this will most likely happen post RTM. If we were to modify
        the old clock app, that would mean removing more than 50% of the
        code out in the process.

      
      The world clocks back end needs to be rewritten to use the new
        QTimezone class introduced since Qt 5.2.
      The Clock UI has changed drastically requiring a complete
        rewrite of the UI code of the old clock.
    
    While I do understand that this close to the RTM it is rather risky
    to be doing something as big as this. However I am personally
    confident that this can be done within the time frame since one of
    the core functionality alarm can essentially be copied over
    from the old clock app to the new one. I am also keeping a keen eye
    on the alarms functionality in the platform side of things.
    Hopefully next week we can expect to have platform deep sleep wakeup
    when an alarm is triggered. 

    

    The plan at the moment is to keep the old clock app on the phone
    until the new clock app becomes stable at which point we will swap
    them. We do intend on pushing the old clock app to the store when
    that happens so that users can still install the old clock app for
    the timer and stopwatch functionality.

    

    I have already created a new branch at [1] that you guys can keep an
    eye on for the latest development. In addition we have a session at
    the upcoming Ubuntu Online Summit. You can find the session at [2].
    We are also tracking feature implementation and their progress at
    the Trello Board you can find at [3].

    

    If you were thinking of contributing to the core apps, now would be
    the ideal opportunity since the code base is small. Join us at the
    Ubuntu Online Summit session where you can voice your concerns and
    feedback :)

    

    Enjoy your weekend!

    

    [1] lp:~ubuntu-clock-dev/ubuntu-clock-app/utopic-3.0

    [2]
http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1406/meeting/22230/appdev-1406-clock-app-reboot/

    [3] https://trello.com/b/Ie2rAS3W/core-apps-management

    

    Cheers,

    

    Nekhelesh

    Clock App Dev

  


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