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[David Callé <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 16/07/2015 11:10, Bry Wilson wrote:
> To pitch in my two cents (or more relevantly, my two pence) here
> whilst we're discussing the inflexibility of pre-installed Scopes -
> how do we manually change the locale of Scopes? I want to use the UK
> version of Amazon - I've changed the webapp easily enough - but the
> Scope still directs me to Amazon US. Same goes for eBay. Quite
> frustrating for all searches on those Scopes - despite being logged in
> on my respective UK Amazon and eBay accounts - to return US hits :-|

Remote scopes (at least these two, I haven't checked the rest) follow
the locale you use on your phone.

David

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> *From:* Chris Wayne <chris.wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* Michi Henning <michi.henning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Cc:* "bln_dr@xxxxxxxxxxx" <bln_dr@xxxxxxxxxxx>; ubuntu-phone mail
> list <ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 16 July 2015, 1:25
> *Subject:* Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Design] removing scopes
>
> It's still a click, it's just unconfined (the photos scope that is)
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> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Michi Henning
> <michi.henning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:michi.henning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>     On 16 Jul 2015, at 7:02 , Renato Filho <renato.filho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:renato.filho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     > Why we have so specific scopes as part of the image? Why we can not
>     > make all scopes as click?
>
>     Some of the locally installed scopes have privileges that scopes
>     installed from click packages cannot obtain. For example, the
>     photo scope can look at your Pictures folder, which a
>     click-installed scope cannot do.
>
>     If you don't use some local scopes, they don't do any harm, other
>     than using a very small amount of disk space. Just disable the
>     ones you don't like by unfavoriting them.
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