Components should provide haptic feedback out of the box

[Cris Dywan]

QtMobility has an abstraction for hardware feedback like rumbling or vibrating when touching the screen or playing a sound. The basic components should support this out of the box, and if it makes sense provide some glue to customize it.
See http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qt-mobility/qml-feedback-api.html
This is qtdeclarative5-qtfeedback-plugin for Qt5 and "import QtFeedback 5.0", the plugin name changed

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Assessment of the status quo shows: we have the sound/ multimedia[1] part of QtFeedback but vibration[2] requires another hardware-specific module.

[1] https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtfeedback/blobs/master/src/plugins/feedback/mmk/qfeedback.cpp
[2] https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtfeedback/blobs/master/src/plugins/feedback/immersion/qfeedback.cpp

[Thomas Voß (thomas-voss)]

A short-term solution to access the vibrator is to do the equivalent of echo 150 > /sys/class/timed_output/vibrator/enable in the hardware-specific module.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

This isn't tested on a device. It provides a plugin that takes custom and themed vibrations, as used in the QML testcase. An open question is if it's preferrable to patch QtFeedback/ merge upstream or install it as part of other platform components, though I'm not sure if we have a suitable place for it.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sdk-team/+archive/ppa/+builds?build_text=qtfeedback-mir&build_state=all now has test packages for saucy. The code in the branch enables vibration successfully.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

There's a separate bug 1214404 for integrating the QtFeedback plugin.

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-ui-toolkit at revision None, scheduled for release in ubuntu-ui-toolkit, milestone Unknown

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "Patch against QtFeedback: "mir" backend using command line to vibrate (qmake mir_enabled=yes -r)" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit - 0.1.46+13.10.20131007-0ubuntu1

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