A friend of mine on Ubuntu Touch reached out to me the other day about one of the older apps that I maintain. It's called Ambient, which is a simple app that plays background noise for a set period of time. Apparently, my friend uses it every night to help them sleep. One of the limitations of the app was that it had a max time of 3 hours, which, presumably, a person using this for a sleep aid would want to sleep longer than. They requested I update the app to longer timers.
Figuring this to be a one line change, and not an unreasonable request, by any means, I looked at the code:
ListItem {
height: timerSlider.height + timerSliderLabel.height + units.gu(1) + 50
Column {
id: timerSetter
spacing: units.gu(1)
width: parent.width - units.gu(2)
anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
Label {
id: timerSliderLabel
text: "Sleep time: " + timerLabel.formatTime(Math.round(timerSlider.value) * 15);
fontSize: "large"
width: parent.width
}
Slider {
id: timerSlider
minimumValue: 1
maximumValue: 12
value: settings.contents.timer / 15
function formatValue(v) { return timerLabel.formatTime(Math.round(v) * 15); }
width: parent.width
onValueChanged: {
settings.contents = {timer: Math.round(value) * 15};
}
}
}
}
Looks like it uses a slider that works on a min/max value of 1 to 12, and multiplies that by 15, which means the max time is 3 hours. A quick adjustment of maximumValue to 32 got me right where I needed to be at 8 hours total. Seemed to work well, and other than updating a few older Ubuntu.components to the new Lomiri.components, the app was done updating in no time. You can always check out the commits[1] if you'd like, and I put the newest version (1.6) on the openstore.
Linux - keep it simple.
[1] https://gitlab.com/alaskalinuxuser/ambient-ubuntu-phone/-/commits/master?ref_type=HEADS