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Unity8 & Mir update Jan 6, 2015

 

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   Latest in Unity8 ui
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      new Dash list overview for favoriting & ordering management in the
      image
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      working on navigation changes wrt
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      Work continues on full shell rotation, keeping ppa/CFT up to date -
      much improved especially on tablet Nexus7 & sidestage experience
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      In the world of unity8 on desktop (non-full screen windowing) looking
      into multi monitor cases, investigation in order to add proper
support into
      qtmir
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      Welcome wizard migrated over to unity8 now better test coverage with
      qmltests
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      Continuing to iterate with the design team on the idea of prompts
      (dialogs) vs notifications
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      crunching down the bug count in rtm images
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   Latest in Mir
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      Parent-child relationship code under review
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      Using glib mainloop as a replacement for asio’s, on devel
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      Landed client API to provide proper gets/sets for attributes
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      Added support for hwc1.3 on devel
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      Continue to work on making our input platform dynamic, as well as
      integrating libinput functionality alongside our android input
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      Moved to a less ABI-breakeage prone API & ported clients
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      Plumbing/preparation to support external displays on Android devices.
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      Began work on automatic driver probing, to intelligently choose the
      best driver
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      Added desktop zoom feature using Super + mouse wheel to the demo shell
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      Wider support for display buffer pixel formats in the mesa driver,
      for wider hardware support
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      On mesa changed to only hold compositor buffers for the duration of
      the render, so compositor report is render time instead of frame time
      - Mir now starts reliably when a TV is connected by HDMI, and up to
      4K resolution (2160p) is known to work