@blanca12 said in Q&A 40 Is This Saturday 10/11/18 @ 19:00 UTC:
Any news on UT/Unity8 on x86 laptops?
@blanca12 you realise that the q&a has already taken place, right?! And you realise that your question is actually verbatim my question that was asked in time and answered in the show? I suggest you go watch the recording. Link is in the first post.
@olliprivat the wifi version is "flo" not "deb". Select flo in the installer
@guru you are right that it should. that doesn't necessarily mean that it successfully does so in all cases :(
It seems there is some github clean-up going on: cleaning up unnecessary access rights and taking care of old pull requests. Maybe you want to issue a call to arms as well, that people should check their old issues?!
I checked mine recently and found I could close a couple outdated/unreproducible ones.
Any news on UT/Unity8 on x86 laptops?
Is there some recent bug/update that webapp developers should deal with? I think I overheard a few times that people were saying that webapps started to "half" open in the browser (e.g. https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1943/youtube-problem-on-m10-tablet-after-upgrade-to-ota-5-stable , https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1945/google-maps-webapp-strange-behaviour)
What's the best advice, documentation, examples, etc for app developers to take care of the oxide deprecation? The best I know is this: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1734/apps-using-oxide
@custello said in How to download and install Apps from OpenStore via CLI?:
Maybe something like...
looks ok. does it work?
Ah, but seriously: I remember now one of my thoughts, which actually kept me from writing the issue: I'm not sure whether I have an issue about memory consumption. I don't even really have an issue about the killing of background apps.
Functionally, what I care about is: I want to switch back and forth between browser and email client. I want to do this repeatedly and step by step write an email while looking up things in the browser. Or vice versa: I want to write a forum post, while I repeatedly refer back to some emails, or maybe an attachment there.
I am sure that with the current installation, this workflow doesn't work out of the box, because the background apps are killed, which in turn is because I'm running out of memory.
I could imagine that a waste of memory is at fault. That might be the OS, or any of my open apps.
Or it could be that we are doing the best with the memory, but there just ain't enough memory. And actually the apps should do a better job of saving their state (which email draft were you working on, what is the scroll position that you where at, where was the cursor positioned, what was the qml page stack underneath you). But maybe the toolkit needs to actually support such "rich state saving". And maybe the OS needs to do a better job at restarting apps faster and having a higher resolution screenshot stored such that the time-to-restart is covered a little better.
Or it could be that we simply don't want to bother supporting devices with less than X memory, so it's a wontfix.
So, there we go, practical question: Do I raise the functional issue "Bad user experience switching between browser and email client", or do I raise the technical issue: "No fluent multitasking due to high memory consumption" ?
@dobey I agree. It's just that I didn't actually hear many people talk about this. Then I wasn't sure whether maybe it's Nexus 7 specific, and then the 'deb' was never really supported by anyone, and I don't have the impression that I can make a very crisp root cause analysis and it's probably quite intertwined and .... ok, I could also stop making excuses and just check the bugtracker and write an issue as best as I can ... let me try that instead :-P