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[Alan Pope <alan.pope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Morning all, here's a bumper update covering the last couple of weeks
in Core Apps!

Most of the core apps are now in maintainenece mode, fixing bugs
rather than landing new features. As reported previously a number are
getting new or refreshed designs including Music, Calculator, Weather
and Clock. The fruits of those designs will be seen shortly. More news
on that when we have it.

I'd like to thank all the phone users who've been filing high quality
bug reports for the core apps developers. We're getting lots of great
feedback from our users, and it's really helping us to polish and
refine each of the applications. Thank you!

We've also had some new developers join the core apps team to
contribute in areas that matter to them. This month we've had new
contributions to the Document Viewer and the Ubuntu Geonames project
(used by some of the core apps for getting location data), which have
been great to see. We welcome new contributions across the board, but
if you have a specific area or app of interest we can probably find
something for you! Drop by #ubuntu-app-devel on freenode and we'll
discuss there, or use this mailing list.

In general:-

Each app is upgraded to Ubuntu Components 1.1 - as per
http://askubuntu.com/questions/518912/should-we-be-upgrading-away-from-ubuntu-components-0-1/518964
- Thanks Akiva!
Benjamin Zeller contributed a fix to each core app which makes them
all easier to build out of the box with our SDK - Thanks Benjamin!
Thanks again to all the translators working to ensure Ubuntu Phone
apps are usable in so many languages. Check these stats!
http://projects.davidplanella.org/stats/utopic

== Reminders ==

* Riccardo implemented a first cut of the 'bottom edge' functionality
in Reminders. Thanks Riccardo!
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~reminders-app-dev/reminders-app/trunk/revision/241
* Bug fixes
  http://pad.lv/1363604 - Tests get stuck while deleting the account
  http://pad.lv/1340635 - Right workflow, wrong wording on error on
initial run of the app
  http://pad.lv/1340640 - No way to Edit a notebook name
  http://pad.lv/1363599 - Using the production server when running
tests on the device
* Other fixes
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~reminders-app-dev/reminders-app/trunk/revision/236
- Fixed pull down to refresh behavior
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~reminders-app-dev/reminders-app/trunk/revision/239
- correctly update the model when a notebook changes

== Music ==

* Music app focus will soon switch to the new "Music Remix"
design/rewrite. Once we get to a certain level of functionality /
stability we'll push a separate "Music Remix" app to the store (so as
not to break the existing app, and to allow for further testing). More
news on that as it develops.
* Bug fixes
  http://pad.lv/1366007 - Debian and cmake packaging should use python3
  http://pad.lv/1365832 - When all genres are unknown, there is empty
whitespace in the Music tab
  http://pad.lv/1335685 - Autopilot Testcase Needed: After 5 seconds
the previous button should restart the current song from the beginning
  http://pad.lv/1365247 - Music app AP tests need to step up to new
Mediascanner 2 schema version
* Other changes
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~music-app-dev/music-app/trunk/revision/610
- Allow currently playing item to resize in narrow mode
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~music-app-dev/music-app/trunk/revision/609
- Fix for unicode encoding errors
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~music-app-dev/music-app/trunk/revision/611
- Remove dependency on Unity Actions
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~music-app-dev/music-app/trunk/revision/612
- Fix currently playing item transition

== Calendar ==

A busy week for the Calendar as the developers brainstormed
improvements to the app design including better use of space & more
logical dialogs.

* Further building on the changes from Ben, Nekhelesh has cleaned up
the build environment for calendar.
  https://code.launchpad.net/~nik90/ubuntu-calendar-app/remove-qmlproject-hacks/+merge/233831
* "New Event" page re-designed
  http://pad.lv/1359135 - Labels compress lists on NewEvent.qml for
narrow screens.
  http://pad.lv/1364989 - Calendar names need to be ellided or support
multiline in the "New event" view
  http://pad.lv/1317908 - Field label/hint within field content is not intuitive
* Other UI bugs fixed:-
  http://pad.lv/1351024 - Date & Time picker is not working on device.
  http://pad.lv/1355301 - Syncing graphic constantly display in week view
  http://pad.lv/1369034 - Events shouldn't be allowed to save with empty titles

== Clock ==

Nekhelesh has been on fire this week^W year with his Clock updates!
* Visual improvements
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-clock-dev/ubuntu-clock-app/utopic-3.0/revision/77
- Small visual tweaks to the alarm listitems when enabling/disabling
alarms as specified in the design spec.
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-clock-dev/ubuntu-clock-app/utopic-3.0/revision/79
- Increased the size of the alarm volume slider listitem in the
settings page and simplified the alarm duration listmodel
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-clock-dev/ubuntu-clock-app/utopic-3.0/revision/83
- Replaces the add-worldcity button as per the new design change. This
should fix accidental trigger and also be more discoverable. Fixes:
http://pad.lv/1359180, http://pad.lv/1362263.
* Bugs fixed
  http://pad.lv/1362081 - Transition to alarms is jarring
  http://pad.lv/1358320 - Default Alarm frequency should be 'null' (one off)
  http://pad.lv/1364553 - Settings button needs press animation
  http://pad.lv/1362763 - please support plain UTC as a 'city'
  http://pad.lv/1362089 - Should have shortcuts for "Weekdays",
"Weekends" for Repeat
  http://pad.lv/1362093 - "Today" and "No time difference" a weird
thing to communicate
  http://pad.lv/1354400 - Implement Alarm Snooze functionality
  http://pad.lv/1365012 - Default alarm name should be translatable
  http://pad.lv/1365440 - digital/analogue switch transition too slow
  http://pad.lv/1366586 - Music app stops playing when an app plays a sound
  http://pad.lv/1364555 - No scheduled alarms leaves gaping dead space

== Weather ==

* Bugs fixed
  http://pad.lv/1363023 - Font-Color in Header menus is not right
  http://pad.lv/1366714 - max and min temperatures are overlayed (text
corruption)
* Other fixes
  lp:~martin-borho/ubuntu-weather-app/edit-label - Renamed Label for
edit-action in overlay menu to from "Edit" to "Locations"

== Terminal ==

* Thanks Mike Sheldon for the fix for these keyboard input bugs!
  http://pad.lv/1302870 - Keyboard should have auto-uppercase off in terminal
  http://pad.lv/1307386 - Terminal should not use assistive technologies
  http://pad.lv/1331354 - Spell checking shows password in clear text
* Other bugs fixed:-
  http://pad.lv/1365602 - Terminal starts in application directory, not $HOME
  http://pad.lv/1366387 - Pin/password box should be reset on auth failure

== File Manager ==

* Bugs fixed
  http://pad.lv/1354508 - Permissions need to either wrap or be cut
before the margin
  http://pad.lv/1318008 - Core apps .desktop files do not include
translated strings
  http://pad.lv/1361744 - Fixed focus issue with rename dialog (or any
other dialog using ConfirmDialogWithInput.qml)
* Other updates
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-filemanager-dev/ubuntu-filemanager-app/trunk/revision/276
- Just implemented a goBack() navigation feature.
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-filemanager-dev/ubuntu-filemanager-app/trunk/revision/270
- Some clean-up, documentation, for the security changes.
  https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-filemanager-dev/ubuntu-filemanager-app/trunk/revision/277
- Just changed from std:array to QList class

== Calculator ==

* Bugs fixed
  http://pad.lv/1341681 - Autopilot tests should stop using deprecated
emulators module
  http://pad.lv/1316746 - Autopilot tests should properly setup environment
  http://pad.lv/1333201 - Calculator gets increasingly slower with
long calculations

== Sudoku App ==

* Bugs fixed
  http://pad.lv/1365248 - Create Profile placeholder text unreadable
  http://pad.lv/1365254 - White text on white background (Ubuntu Style)

== Dropping Letters ==

* Thanks Victor for these bug fixes!
  http://pad.lv/1366586 - Music app stops playing when an app plays a sound
  http://pad.lv/1369133 - Dropping letters should have a pause button

== Doc Viewer ==

After a significant period of inactivity with no maintainer, we've
picked up a new developer for DocViewer - Welcome Fabio! First order
of the day, a new icon! :)
  lp:~fcole90/ubuntu-docviewer-app/new-icon
Thanks also to Andrew for fixing pep8 errors
  lp:~andrew-hayzen/ubuntu-docviewer-app/fix-pep8-errors

Thanks again everyone!
-- 
Alan Pope
Technical Project Manager

Canonical - Product Strategy
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