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[Joerg Berroth <joergberroth@xxxxxx>]

Am Montag, 25. April 2016 14:52:46 CEST schrieb Nekhelesh Ramananthan 
<krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Joerg and Marcos,
>
> I like to start of this email by mentioning that I will be travelling in
> about a week or two and will be quite busy in May as I am moving to a new
> city. So my involvement in uNav 0.60 won't be as much as before. With that
> said, I like to say what I had in mind for 0.60.
>
> *1. Convergence* - Devs: Nik
>
> With the advent of Ubuntu Tablet and the whole Unity 8 inching more and
> more towards the Desktop, convergence is a hot topic and something we
> should get started with in 0.60. It might be even take up to 0.61 to get it
> finished as it involves a lot of work ranging from design to implementation
> and testing. This will be something I will put my full effort to get it
> done. We will need to think about keyboard shortcuts, focus states, and
> converge individual components. For instance, the welcome wizard could use
> a slightly altered behavior in the tablet landscape mode. I would like some
> implementation from you guys on this.
Great. Good to hear...
> *2. Voice Management *- Devs: Marcos(JSON) & Nik(qml)

> Marcos had the idea for a better voice management. At the moment we ship
> all voices (for all languages) within the app. Marcos had the idea of just
> shipping the default english voice in the app while allowing for the other
> voices to be downloaded when the user installs the app. This will reduce
> the app's footprint from 4.5 Mb to maybe 500 Kb. Also we can enable
> male/female voices for each language. This feature will first require us to
> finalize a JSON structure and then make the appropriate work in the QML
> side to download the voice and use that.
Also great to hear. I think that before going into that step, we should 
have a brainstorm on how to even improve voice indications. Meaning 
finalize the indication structure with some improvements by adding 
additional ones.

> *@*Joerg, In the features that you listed, I suggest you work on what
> interests you and is also possible for 0.60. Personally I think that
> targeting both vector maps and offline tile caching in the same release is
> a bit ambitious as it involves a lot of work and invasive code change. I
> think if we get either of these features in 0.60, that alone would be
> amazing.
There should be a decision on which way to take. I will discuss with 
marcos.

> I personally don't see a need a "save-favorite" routes features. Here are
> my reasoning for that,
Me neither. Just a test ;-)

> - If user is using a certain route (favorite) frequently, then I would
> expect him to remember that route after a while thereby nullifying the need
> for such a feature. Also, the feature is a bit rigid since it fixes the
> start and stop points. While the favorite locations is more flexible and
> superior by allowing flexibility in this regard.
> - At the moment, you can pretty much simulate this feature, by pressing on
> a favorite location in the search page and navigating to it.
>
> As for the quick access to POIs for active route, this requires a good
> discussion on how to introduce that feature in uNav. Surely it is obvious
> that it would be an additonal popup in the route popup. However we will
> need to brainstorm on whether we allow users to set what POIs they would
> like to see in the Car, Bicycle and Walking mode. For instance, the logical
> things to show while using a car would be Gas Stations, Car Repair etc. But
> what if I have an electric car ;) ? What I am trying to imply is that may
> be users might want to decide what POIs they want to add in the route
> popup. And if we agree to that, we need to brainstorm about the design for
> that.
That's right. I think there will be some easy ways to let the user decide 
from the poi list.
It will be a helpful feature.


> Can you explain your purpose for the night view? How does it help users?
> Why is it necessary for unav to include such a feature?

By a car and navigate at night. Youll get the idea ;-)
> Kind regards,
> Nekhelesh
Joerg


> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Joerg Berroth 
> <joergberroth@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > hi guys,
> >
> > now that 0.59 is in qa queue, i would like toshare some ideas on
> > features and move towards features that could be prepared for 0.6.
> >
> > The overall design changes are great and are the perfect base for the
> > ongoing development. I really like what we have achieved. Great!
> >
> > I had some thoughts on new features that I want to share with you and
> > hope to get some feedback.
> >
> > 1. of course, vector maps. i do not know if we can make this to 0.6 but
> > i would like to summarize all the possible solutions with you, so that
> > we can start working on that. i think marcos has already some ideas.
> >
> > This of course is a longer way and there are several other things we
> > could achieve in a short term solution:
> >
> > 2. night view: - include a dark theme and adjust map colors for a night
> > view.
> > 3. Add niks convergence features and improve them.
> > 4. quick access to pois for active routes.
> > 5. gpx-tracking
> > 6. save favorite routes and recall them.
> > 7. enhance offline tile caching


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