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I'm a web and software developer from Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
I design and implement user interfaces, also contribute to open source projects.
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2013年6月16日 星期日

SlateKit's handwriting recognition ported to Ubuntu Touch

One of the major components of SlakteKit project is its handwriting recognition input method. It's a usable fully open source solution, consists of Tegaki model, Zinnia engine and a simple QML Canvas stroke detection.

With a patch to maliit-keyboard, and my qtdeclarative5-zinnia-plugin package, it's now being ported to Ubuntu Touch:

I'll keep polishing the keyboard layout and settings of maliit. You can follow me on Twitter or the discussion thread at Ubuntu App Developers for updates.

Happy hacking,
penk

2013年6月9日 星期日

My Ubuntu Touch Weekend Hackathon on Nexus 4

I got some time to play with a Nexus 4 this weekend, and I decided to improve SlateKit Shell on Ubuntu Touch, here are some results:

Fixed the url text (TextField) layout, and improved Suggestion list:

Enabled OrientationHelper:

Tweaked Reader Mode text size:

And here's the tricky one, long pressed Context Menu support:

You can find all the commits from: https://code.launchpad.net/~penk/slatekit-shell/trunk

Best,
penk

2013年6月6日 星期四

SlateKit.org Grand Re-Opening

SlateKit.org, the official project website of SlateKit Launcher, Keyboard, NetWiz and recently Shell, hasn't been updated for a while. So this morning I took some time to assemble a new project site, here's the whole screen capture:

Here's the original sketch:

It's as simple as Twitter Bootstrap, Font Awesome and good old FancyZoom. It's a bit plain but I'm quite happy with the result. :-)

SlateKit Shell is now available on Ubuntu Touch

Some quick updates:

  • New features: Reader Mode and User-Agent string Switch
  • Install on Desktop
  • Debian package information landed in Github, this also provides an Ubuntu PPA, so you can install it on Ubuntu Desktop 13.04 (Raring) or later by:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:penk/touch
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install slatekit-shell

  • Install on Ubuntu Touch
  • SlateKit Shell has been added to Collection PPA, thanks to Michael Hall's help. If you're working on Ubuntu Touch please give it a shot: ppa:ubuntu-touch-coreapps-drivers/collection.

  • UI Components
  • Rather than being tied to one single platform, I would like to make SlateKit a generic QML app suite. Only the one hosted on Launchpad will be using Ubuntu Components (mostly units for now, and some Popover); the main Github repository will not.

  • New Icon
  • Thanks to Georgi Karavasilev, we just got a very first graphical asset, an icon. Stay tuned! ;-)

Best,
Ping-Hsun Chen (penk) <penkia@gmail.com>

2013年6月4日 星期二

Bringing Ubuntu Components to Mac OSX

This work has been tested on Mac OSX 10.8.1 with Qt 5.0.2 and ubuntu-ui-toolkit rev.531.

Install Dependencies

brew install gettext bzr
ln -s /opt/Qt5.0.2/5.0.2/clang_64/bin/qmlplugindump.app/Contents/MacOS/qmlplugindump /opt/Qt5.0.2/5.0.2/clang_64/bin/qmlplugindump

Get Package

bzr branch lp:ubuntu-ui-toolkit

Apply Patch

Download and apply ubuntu_ui_toolkit_for_mac_osx.patch to disable GIO and DBus.

Compile and Install

cd ubuntu-ui-toolkit
qmake && make && make install