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Re: Tagger not working?

 

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Gareth France <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have raised another bug as I have discovered my inability to decode QRs is
> a separate thing. I have tried using example codes found online, big and
> clear. I have tried taking a photo, cropping and using that photo. Nothing
> decodes! On my phone it was effectively instant. I did randomly decode the
> letter V from god only knows what when I wasn't even pointing it at a code
> yesterday. Can anyone else get this to work on their M10?

Yes, it’s working fine for me here on a FHD M10, scanning the QR code
on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code is almost instant.


> On 27 April 2016 at 10:06, Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 27.04.2016 10:06, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Michael Zanetti
>> > <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 27.04.2016 09:37, Gareth France wrote:
>> >>> This is on the M10, on my E4.5 tagger works beatifully.
>> >>>
>> >>> On 27 April 2016 at 08:34, Olivier Tilloy
>> >>> <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >>> <mailto:olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>     On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Gareth France
>> >>>     <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> >>>     > It seem that tagger is behaving weird, the image is displayed
>> >>> the
>> >>>     wrong way
>> >>>     > up making it near impossible to centre on what you want to scan
>> >>> as
>> >>>     it always
>> >>>     > moves the opposite way and messes with your mind!
>> >>>     >
>> >>>     > I haven't been able to scan a single code yet, it just doesn't
>> >>>     pick them up.
>> >>>     > It was very quck on my phone so this surprised me. Is this
>> >>> known?
>> >>>     I'm not
>> >>>     > sure wher to look for a bug.
>> >>>
>> >>>     You can look for existing bugs, and report a new one, here:
>> >>>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/tagger.
>> >>>
>> >>>     On which device are you seeing this btw? I’ve tested the E4.5 and
>> >>> the
>> >>>     MX4, and I’m not observing anything wrong.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Actually this happens on all devices. Currently apps cannot distinguish
>> >> between Landscape and InvertedLandscape (or Portrait and
>> >> InvertedPortrait). I can not fix that in the app until the API in the
>> >> platform is fixed.
>> >
>> > OK, I’m seeing it now.
>> > The obvious workaround is to hold the device in portrait/landscape
>> > instead of inverted portrait/inverted landscape, right?
>> >
>>
>> Yes. Although I really don't like that workaround :) However, the fix
>> for this is not straight forward. It's something to be fixed in Qt and
>> also requires to rework a "hack" that got introduced for the camera-app
>> in qtubuntu.
>>
>>
>>
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