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[David Callé <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 16/07/2015 11:56, David Callé wrote:
> 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 :-|
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> Remote scopes (at least these two, I haven't checked the rest) follow
> the locale you use on your phone.
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> David

Scratch what I've just written, looking at the code, it first looks for
geolocation (using the device IP address), then uses the locale if the
store provides localized store for this country (eg. canada/french,
canada/english)

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
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>> 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:
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>>     > Why we have so specific scopes as part of the image? Why we can not
>>     > make all scopes as click?
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>>     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.
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>>     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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