Writing applications for Ubuntu (including Ubuntu Phone) and questions about the application submission process to the Ubuntu Software Center. This covers both open source and commercial applications.
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Will there be a Vala template for quickly?
Are there plans to develop a Vala template for Quickly? Would be interesting because I think, Vala will be the next gen programming language for Gnome.
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Make sniqt recognize all tray abilities (or create a working indicator in Qt)
There is this old thread of mine: How do I create a working indicator with Qt/C++? where I was suggested to use the QSystemTray library for making a tray icon in Ubuntu for my application.
Sniqt is a ...
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Are there Human Interface Design Guidelines for Unity Development?
I was surfing developer.ubuntu.com, searching for Unity-Human-Interface-Design-Guidelines or a Unity-HIG, but I didn't find anything. I've seen design.ubuntu.com, but that's not what I'm talking ...
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How do I migrate from systray to AppIndicators?
I am considering forking Parcellite and making it use AppIndicators now that Ubuntu has dropped support for systray. How different are these, and are there any "getting started" guides on ...
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How can I submit a NetBeans project to Ubuntu App Developer?
I have made a Java application for Ubuntu in NetBeans and would like to submit it to the Ubuntu Software Center. But the problem is, when I get the upload form, they ask to choose a file. So what do I ...
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Manually Created .deb, how do I upload to a PPA?
I have a manually created .deb, and I'd like to upload it to a PPA.
My question is as follows:
Is that possible?
and If so,
how do I do that?
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How can I play a system sound with Python?
I am writing a small reminder-app and want to play a system sound once the timer has reached 0. What is the easiest way to play that sound, and which sound would you recommend?
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What GTK widget is this?
Lately, I've seen the widget below appear in GTK applications. I can't find it in Glade. What is it?
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How can I access UbuntuOne contacts and notes with Python?
I want to use UbuntuOne in my own Python application. I want to access contacts and maybe store other data. But I could not find any documentation or (Python) examples. How can I use this?
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How to add checkbox or radio buttons to a Unity quicklist?
I have been searching how to make that happen but i can't find it anywhere. I even guessed how to enable/disable the quicklist item, so as how to add function invoked after the item is clicked, but ...
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How do I control the position of an indicator created with appindicator.Indicator?
I've created a simple indicator in python using the appindicator module. However, it always shows up to the left of the existing indicators. Is there some way to control what position the indicators ...
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“QtQuick version 2.0 is not installed” while trying to run CurrencyConverter Example for Ubuntu Phone
I was following the step-by-step guide on how to develop an Ubuntu Phone application but Qt Creator throughs the error message (module "QtQuick" version 2.0 is not installed) when I run it with ...
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Is there anyway to contact whoever handles commercial apps for the Software Center?
I have some problems with the way my app is published due to a name change. Also, I want to inquire as to if/how my application can be made available for Oneric Ocelot, and when they come out future ...
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How to troubleshoot Quickly packaging failures
I have created a Quickly app and I'm trying to create a package for distributing it through the Software Center.
However, whenever I try one of the Quickly packaging commands (package, share, release ...
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How do I package an application to submit to the MyApps portal?
I'm trying to submit my app to the MyApps portal.
I really don't get it what I should submit, source code or deb package? If source, in which format, whole app as zip, tar.gz...?
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How to add a pygtk Widget to the Glade palette?
Say I've created a gtk Widget like this:
class AwesomeTextView (gtk.TextView):
def set_font(self, font_description):
self.modify_font(pango.FontDescription(font_description))
How can I ...
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How do I install the QML toolkit on 12.04? [closed]
I'm trying to install the Ubuntu QML toolkit. I've installed Qt5 successfully, but I'm failing on the QML toolkit.
Below is the error information:
W: Failed to fetch ...
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How to make Glade load translations from /opt
I've created an application that I'd like to submit through the Ubuntu app developer process. One of the requirements for the process is that when installed, all files go into the ...
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Only show a menu under Unity
We want our app Nitro to be more native on Ubuntu. We're going to do this by adding Unity quicklist support & appmenu support.
Is it possible for the app to only utilize the app menu? If the user ...
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What is the payout date for commercial applications?
What date are commercial developers paid for their sales? I thought it was quarterly, but it's been about 4 months since my first sale and I haven't been paid.
NOTE: I sent canonical an email, I'll ...
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Are the Ubuntu App Developer Showdown Workshops recorded?
I am a new developer who wants to participate in the Ubuntu App Showdown. I would like to go to the Ubuntu App Developer Showdown Workshops but its abit hard with my schedule. Will these workshops be ...
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How do I make my java app compatible with the unity global menu?
I like to develop in Java but also want compatibility with the global menu?
Is there a way? Please help.
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Is PyGTK still relevant?
I'm new to Linux but not to app development. I come from a RealBasic on a Mac background.
I've accepted that I need to learn a new language to develop for Linux (since RB won't run on 64 bit distros ...
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How to submit commercial apps to the Ubuntu Software Center? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the process for getting paid apps into the Ubuntu Software Center?
Why isn't there a clear description for developers on selling an app on the Ubuntu Software ...
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When to expect the results of the Ubuntu App Showdown Community Vote?
The Vote is closed since the 29th of Aug.
Is everything OK?
Shouldn't we be aware of the results already?
I thought the counting was done automatically from the site that the voting was taking ...
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dynamically adding tab to tabs
I am trying to add a new tab to the tabs component with the code below.
When running there is no error reported but no additional tabs are show.
I have tried using both tabs and tabs.__tabsModel as ...
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Are Palestinians out of the Ubuntu App Showdown Contest?
Canonical does not support shipment to Palestine. Are we (Palestinians) out of the Ubuntu App Showdown Contest because of that?
Edit
I contact canonical shipment team, and they told me they don't ...
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Dynamic shortcuts for Messaging Menu?
I'm Unity Mail developer and I wonder if it's possible to add a shortcut to Messaging Menu from within the application (it's written in Python).
I need to connect it's user-display to a function in ...
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What's the criteria for an application to be included in the Universe repository?
I started a hobby project and figured that if there were some reasonably reachable criteria for this, I might as well work in that direction. Tried asking on #ubuntu-app-devel, but the channel seems ...
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How to use gettext to make QML files translatable
I'd like to write a QtQuick app based on Python (PySide) and QML.
I know Qt apps have got their own translation technology, but I would like to stick to gettext for this one. I'd like to know if it's ...
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Launchpad failed to build after “quickly submitubuntu” [closed]
I uploaded my python project by running "quickly submitubuntu", but it failed to build on Launchpad. "quickly submitubuntu" is supposed to add package dependencies automatically, but the error log ...
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Why can't I import “pygtk” with Python 3.2 from PyDev?
I have installed Eclipse + PyDev + Python 3.2. Now I have two Python interpreters in PyDev: Python 2.7 and Python 3.2. If I try to execute command import pygtk with 2.7 interpreter it works fine, but ...
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What tools do I need to install for Java Development?
I am newbie to Ubuntu and I need to install tools for Java development on that platform.
I see by the Ubuntu Software Center that I have this installed:
OpenJDK java 6 runtime
icedtea java 6 web ...
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Getting Quickly to use Gvim instead of Gedit
How do I get Quickly to use Gvim (or just vim in a terminal) as its default text editor instead of Gedit?
If this can be done, I must be doing it wrong...
Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64.
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How to make a Gtk.Iconview react to single click instead of double click?
I use a Gtk.IconView widget in my app to select different types of elements. The way the IconView works is the following:
Do one click to select the item
Do an additional double-click to activate ...
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How to use Sublime Text 2 as Quickly default editor?
I used this answer to change the editor used with quickly and it worked, however now,when I type quickly edit the command line stays on the open and does not allow me to enter other commands as long ...
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PyGTK Application Icon Blurred in Unity
I have 128x128 icon referenced in main window glade file like <property name="icon">../media/my-icon.svg</property>.
I tried, with both svg and png, but it is always very blurred in ...
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Programmatically detect presence changes in Messaging menu
Is there a way to subscribe to messaging menu events? Specifically, I'm looking for a signal (over DBus?) that is fired when the online presence status changes in the messaging menu
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How to create a PPA for C++ program?
My questions are:
c++/gtkmm project created with NetBeans. How to make package to PPA from this?
I have created target files structure (*.desktop, iconfile, ui glade files).
Binary goes to ...
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How do I create a working indicator with Qt/C++?
I am using Qt IDE in order to build my application so as to participate to the Ubuntu Showdown contest. In my application, I've done the following:
void show_app(MainWindow *data)
{
//this works ...
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Create a Gtk Window insensitive to Show Desktop and Won't show in Launcher
I want to make a Gtk.Window which is pinned to the Desktop and acts like a desktop widget. I've found that I can do this by setting self.set_type_hint(Gdk.WindowTypeHint.DESKTOP) which keeps it below ...
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Can't install qt-components-ubuntu because I'm using full release of QT 5.0.0
It appears that since I didn't install the beta1 version of QT5 from the ppa, I'm unable to use the Ubuntu components package. I have the released version QT5 already and not interested in installing ...
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How do I get images to appear on buttons in Glade Designer?
Not sure if this is a bug or just a very annoying feature, but I can't get an image to appear on any of my buttons in Glade Designer.
Is there some property I need to change in order to force it ...
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How to use the AccountsService API with Python?
I'm writing an application for the Ubuntu app showdown and I try to read/write the user's profile picture using this
>>> from gi.repository import AccountsService, GLib
>>> ...
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syncing a GNOME-keyring across devices w/Ubuntu One
I wrote an app that creates and uses its own keyring. I'd like to have that keyring with secrets attributes and all sync via U1 so that the same passwords are available on all the Linux devices.
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Creating a Unity Lens: The name `Activation' does not exist in the context of `Unity'
I'm trying to create a Lens for Unity in 11.10 using vala. This is my daemon.vala:
using Dee;
using Gee;
namespace PidginLens
{
public class Daemon : GLib.Object, Unity.Activation
{
...
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Can apps created using Quickly for Ubuntu be used in other linux distros?
I need to write a small program to update my mongodb. I'm currently on ubuntu but I need to use it on other linux distributions. I would just like to make sure that applications using this method:
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How to package an application that contains a binary that needs to be in $PATH?
I am packaging an application that contains binaries that would normally go in /usr/bin and a shared library that would go in /usr/lib.
However, the package guidelines for submitting applications to ...
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How can I submit an App to MyApps that is already in a PPA?
All my applications are already in my PPA in Launchpad. Now I want to submit them to MyApps. But MyApps insists in getting something to upload which makes no sense because everything is already ...
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Is it possible to alter and update the status icon of a running indicator applet?
I'm trying to create a simple application indicator that mimics the CPU load applet for the gnome-panel.
I currently do this by updating (overwriting) the status icon of the indicator with the new ...
