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Please find the Mir/Unity8 UI team weeklies
Note, UnityNext is now being referred to as Unity8
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Please find the Mir/Unity8 UI team weeklies
Note, UnityNext is now being referred to as Unity8
br,kg
Unity8 & Mir Weekly Report
May 10, 2013
Current Team Theme
- Integrate Unity8 onto Mir
- Improve Unity8 testing & code cleanup post MWC
- Mir build out to support Unity8
- As always live action here
- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/client-1303-mir-phone-iteration-0
- and all the dependent blueprints
Acheived this week
- Mir
- Surface states, sw cursor, & HWC 1.0 (a la android ICS) support landed
- Input fully enabled by default
- Some run of the mill android/display logging added
- LightDM integration updates/cleanup
- Surface moving, in process egl for android, & surface stack ordering MP'd
- Grab bag of dead code removal, simplification of shell example code & some bug fixes around egl client buffers & cpu pixel formats
- Supported Unity integration on Mir, creating Unity-mir layer
- Unity8 UI
- Landed user story for closing apps from Apps lens
- MP'd user story for indicator access from locked screen
- Completed design reviews around hud, launcher, greeter story & some of dash
- HUD: Implemented highlight query results, removed app stack & removed app quit
- First development of unity on mir! only on desktop working on arm build
- Infographic per design implemented & integrated with backend, to be MP'd
- Notification fully integrated & functioning on backend, still in MP review
- Landed our generic framework for front end/back end interface definition/integration
- began work on clock & calendar picker for Indicator (to be donated to SDK)
- began proto work on shell-vs-app input event handling
Shooting for next week
- Mir
- Land surface stack order, in process egl for android, & surface moving
- continue work supporting Unity-mir
- Begin work on composition bypass
- complete definition & begin work on hardening/stress tests for Mir
- Unity8 UI
- Continue shell-mir integration work
- Work on design sign off for notifications
- Iterate on Infographics visuals with design
- Continue date/time picker widgets
- Initiate design-engineering iteration for updates for indicators
- Work on launcher edge hints & folding icons
- Land phablet greeter in lightdm flow (includes no-password or one-password login, user backgrounds, and demo infographics)
- just waiting for some MP's to close out, but expect to close out our testing coverage bp
Risks and Issues
- ongoing changes from usability testing/design iterations, need to lock down by june
