Hi all,
hope all finds you well. we've had quite a bit of goodness find its way into the touch builds.
Unity8 & Mir weekly report
Jun 21, 2013
Current Team Theme
- Integrate Unity8 onto Mir
- Add in application launching
- institute daily builds
- fine tune ui elements with design
- Renewed focus on xMir
- multimonitor
- xmir comp bypass
- As always live action here
Acheived this week
- Unity8 on Mir
- unity8 & mir teams now all working on saucy touch
- PPA now available for Unity8 on Mir for Ubuntu Touch here https://launchpad.net/~phablet-team/+archive/mir
- note, it is a seperate but parallel build of ubuntu touch (so ubuntu touch still doesn't have mir intro'd)
- shell is still a bit dumb, no app launching yet
- build instructions still here http://studio.sketchpad.cc/gmY0M6iqeh? and getting cleaner every day
- Mir
- Updated api's for window management needs for Unity8 (focus control, visibility etc)
- created support for surface snapshot to be used by the shell for transition effects
- added buffer swapper mech (e.g. go from double to triple, in/out of bypass etc)
- fixed several bugs around xmir for bootup reliability & x acceleration
- made components associate with gpu backends for mir pluggable
- some progress made in creating a mir-on-mir stack (e.g. unity8 on mir on mir system compositor, hoping to feed the 13.10 preview of unity8)
- made some progress on android composition bypass, a hack for feasability
- working with binaries proving to be a little challenge for this feature
- note, setting android compositino bypass on the back burner to focus on some multimonitor work & mir-on-mir
- Unity8 UI
- migrated, now in lp:unity/8.0 (as opposed to lp:unity/phablet)
- Infographics on the device and looking awesome
- Notifications has landed, and in the build
- dash also now integrated with latest scopes backend
- pin/passphrase lockscreen now added
- integrated our edge touch "directional drag area" use by bottom bar
- iterating on our development for indicator clients
- iterating on listviewwithpageheader reimplementation
Shooting for next week
- Mir
- continue work supporting Unity8-mir window management, working towards a daily build
- merge unity-system-compositor related lightdm changes back into trunk
- create bzr mirror for mir related mesa & xorg patches
- dive into multimonitor support for xmir
- continue with mir-on-mir developement
- Unity8 UI
- followup with some design team feeback tweaks on infographics, notification & launcher as needed
- finish up indicator clients, start working with design on any ux changes
- continue working on dash integration & ui improvements
- land listviewwithpageheader rewrite
- start greeter on mir integration
- add in application management into the unity8-mir stack, so we can launch apps
- integrate against surface snapshot for view transitions (e.g. animation of swiping from one app to the next)
Risks and Issues
- just started finishing up indicators designs/ux, really need to get it nailed asap
