[UIFe/FFe] Addition of Amazon details to the video preview

[Jim Hodapp]

This feature got overlooked for inclusion into the distro a few weeks ago. It adds video details for remote Amazon videos to the video preview in the video lens. It was ready to be included in the distro in time without an FFe, but somehow got overlooked. Without this feature being included, the Amazon video result previews are incomplete.

It has been tested by several people and verified to work well with no obvious bugs or regressions to the distribution.

[Jim Hodapp (jhodapp)]

Thanks, I knew I forgot something in the FFe.

[Jim Hodapp (jhodapp)]

This is also a UIFe, as it changes the UI when a user right clicks on a video in the video lens. The relevant commit for this change is: lp~unity-lens-videos/unity-lens-videos/remote-videos/revision/57

[Jim Hodapp (jhodapp)]

Correction, this did not land before FF. It was finished, but wasn't in trunk in time due to a delay in being code reviewed.

[Kate Stewart (kate.stewart)]

Please let the docs team know that this will change the UI and include email link here.
Also, please set the priority of this feature.

What are the plans for reverting if this causes issues?

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

The docs team was informed yesterday. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2012-September/016860.html (also translators mailed since it has a couple of new strings)

It's two small commits in a small component than can be reverted at will.

I have unfortunately no rights to set importance, but I'd say Medium.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Timo, can this be pushed to Quantal by Thursday night? If so +1 from the Docs Team.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Yes it can, the packaging is prepared already and waiting for pushing.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Approved.

After an IRC conversation I discovered that this feature is only available to US users (detected by geoip).

Can you get this uploaded today, please?

[David Planella (dpm)]

Al 18/09/12 17:50, En/na Jim Hodapp ha escrit:
>
> Hi, I need to request an UIFe for adding details to the Amazon video
> previews. It adds relevant details for remote Amazon videos to the video
> preview in the video lens. It was supposed to have landed before FF, but
> it wasn't code reviewed in time. Without this feature being included,
> the Amazon video previews are incomplete. Also, the video previews will
> seem really basic, and even ugly without this change. This change tries
> to use high resolution artwork from Amazon when available, whereas a
> very low resolution image is used with the current preview code. It has
> been tested by several people and verified to work well with no obvious
> bugs or regressions to the distribution.
>
> The relevant bug is located here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-scope-video-remote/+bug/1052068
>
> For translators: It has several strings that need to be translated,
> including the video duration, director(s), cast, and genre.
>
> An example of what an Amazon video preview looks like is:
> http://ubuntuone.com/0PVgOesPV6irItqdq3p8Lp
>

On the grounds that it's an important feature to enhance user
experience, that it adds just a few strings, and that if it's blocked it
should rather be by the release team than by translators, then +1.

Cheers,
David.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-scope-video-remote - 0.3.8-0ubuntu1

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unity-scope-video-remote (0.3.8-0ubuntu1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Implementation of previews (LP: #1052068)
    - Add 'split' parameter to the query (LP: #1049593)
 -- Timo Jyrinki <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:06:14 +0300