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[Stefano Verzegnassi <stefano92.100@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Niklas,

2016-02-28 21:33 GMT+01:00 Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Have you heard anything from the design team yet? We've been waiting for
> help on this bug for ages until we got only a generic design document, so I
> would really vote for simply merging the tutorial. The screenshots I've seen
> looked awesome and I guess it will take a while for us to get another reply.
>
I pinged James at the DocViewer meeting (last Thursday)
This has been his reply:

15:17 <JMulholland> no, but there is some user testing going on at the
moment and I asked for the terminal app to be looked at. I’m looking
to be given time to help you address the feedback/findings we get from
those, and I have no doubt that coachmarks will be a useful tool in
addressing whatever we find

Anyway yes, I guess we'd be better to push what we already have and
improve it later according to UX team's feedbacks.

I just need a while in order to find a proper way to have a sort of
"universal" component for coachmarks and tutorials (i.e. with QML it's
a bit hard to apply a blur to a root component when the blur effect
itself is part of the same hierarchy - offscreen rendering seems to
help on this).

> Some information regarding this that might be interesting: Support for doing
> this has just been added to the platform for OTA-10 and unconfined
> applications. Confined ones (which the terminal is not) will have to wait
> until OTA-10.
>
> Links:
>
> http://people.canonical.com/~lzemczak/landing-team/ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/bq-aquaris.en/krillin/267.commitlog
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1525879
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/101049/
>
> This might be helpful, so please make sure to add these links to a bug
> report if you file one.

Ack... OTA-11. Well, I wrote a first branch for DocViewer in January. :P
If we go for the unconfined solution, my code is still available at:

https://code.launchpad.net/~verzegnassi-stefano/ubuntu-docviewer-app/desktop-support2

I only need to drop the inputinfo library from the sources, since it's
now available on the platform, as you pointed out.


Stefano