12:07 <popey> #startmeeting shorts app meeting 12:07 <meetingology> Meeting started Fri Oct 10 12:07:37 2014 UTC. The chair is popey. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 12:07 <meetingology> 12:07 <meetingology> Available commands: action commands idea info link nick 12:07 <popey> How are you? 12:07 <JoeyChan> good :) 12:08 <JoeyChan> still waiting for the visa 12:09 <JoeyChan> David report a bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1379726 12:09 <JoeyChan> that may needs c++ code 12:09 <popey> oh, interesting. 12:10 <popey> that would be a great feature to add. 12:10 <popey> I can see value in caching more than just the images. pre-fetching the articles too ? 12:11 <JoeyChan> if the thumbnailer can do this job, that will be easy 12:12 <popey> not sure the thumbnailer can do that.. 12:12 <JoeyChan> if not, means c++ code is needed, I prefer using c++ to download all images then store them in the database 12:13 <JoeyChan> anyway ... that will be a complicated work ... 12:15 <popey> as a workaround could we have an option to switch off images completely? 12:17 <JoeyChan> an option that do not let the app download images ? 12:17 <popey> yes 12:17 <popey> only text 12:18 <JoeyChan> in gridview & listview, yes we can. but not possible in article view 12:18 <JoeyChan> all contents are displayed in only one "label" 12:20 <JoeyChan> not an easy work to separate images from the content (╥_╥) 12:20 <popey> hmm 12:21 <JoeyChan> most of the content is html 12:22 <JoeyChan> I suggest that, if we can get a brand new design 12:22 <JoeyChan> we can build a new one 12:22 <JoeyChan> just like the clock-app 12:24 <JoeyChan> So we can use c++ to re-implement some functions 12:24 <JoeyChan> like the cache 12:25 <popey> I like that idea ☻ 12:25 <popey> Start from the ground up? 12:25 <JoeyChan> also the database (qml database is so............slow) 12:26 <JoeyChan> ground up ? 12:26 <JoeyChan> What is is mean ? sorry for my bad english 12:26 <JoeyChan> (｢・ω・)｢ 12:27 <popey> it basically means "start fresh" 12:27 <popey> i.e. start again from scratch 12:27 <popey> sorry 12:27 <popey> qml database is just sqllite isn't it? 12:28 <JoeyChan> yep, but it is from HTML standard 12:28 <JoeyChan> much slower than the c++ one 12:29 <popey> right.. 12:30 <popey> We could certainly look at alternatives. 12:30 <popey> Something we could look at, at the sprint. 12:30 <popey> I'm a bit worried that your visa hasn't come through yet. 12:30 <JoeyChan> now I have 1k articles in my database, it take more than 5sec to refresh 12:31 <JoeyChan> Yep ... that's a problem 12:31 <JoeyChan> They didn't garrentee any deadline 12:32 <popey> Are you able to contact them and ask for some kind of estimate? 12:33 <JoeyChan> No .. they said that, applicant can only contact them if one month passed 12:34 <popey> ouch. 12:34 <JoeyChan> (┙>∧<)┙へ┻┻ 12:35 <JoeyChan> because tooooooooooooooo many Chinese apply visa 12:36 <popey> It's possible the visa won't arrive in time and you won't be able to come. 12:36 <popey> That's a massive shame. 12:36 <JoeyChan> yep (╥_╥) 12:38 <popey> Well keep me informed, let me know as soon as you find out. 12:38 <JoeyChan> Of course 12:38 <popey> Ok. anything else we need to discuss? 12:39 <JoeyChan> Nope :) 12:39 <JoeyChan> just some new bugs 12:41 <popey> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-rssreader-app/+bug/1379716 12:41 <popey> that needs doing... 12:41 <JoeyChan> yep 12:41 <popey> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-rssreader-app/+bug/1377638 should be fairly easy 12:41 <JoeyChan> Roman is working on it 12:41 <popey> great 12:41 <popey> I can create a merge for 1377638 12:42 <JoeyChan> ok 12:42 <popey> I'll assign that task from you to me 12:42 <JoeyChan> pls do, so I can test the thumbnailer 12:43 <JoeyChan> ~^_^~ 12:43 <popey> ok 12:44 <popey> ok, anything else? 12:45 <JoeyChan> no , that's all 12:45 <popey> super, thanks JoeyChan 12:45 <popey> Lets hope the visa comes through soon! 12:45 <JoeyChan> yep :) 12:45 <popey> have a great weekend! 12:45 <popey> #endmeeting