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And added a new part "rebirth" (La renaissance), as the last one "The fall" (Le déclin), could make readers think uTouch is dead.
What do you think about it (French and others).
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch#La_renaissance
Feel free to tell, if i wrote mistakes, or forgot something (and i probably did).
Feel free to try translate lol : https://www.deepl.com/home
Little update :
I managed to find some icons with transparancy (this way you can change background colors @domubpkm :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: ) in /usr/share/icons, i used thoses from suru/apps/scalable, i let them grey for the moment, but color can be changed with Gimp for instance...
I also managed to find some additional URLdispatcher compatible apps, wich are dialer app, openstore app, uTouch settings, contact app.
To add one of them, add an internet widget, and go to "Link URL" field, erase it, and add instead (edited since new findings) :
document:// for launching document viewer
dekko:// for Dekko mail app, or mailto://xxx@xxx.xxx for opening new mail form to setted address
addressbook:// for contacts
openstore:// for openstore
settings:// for uTouch settings
dialer:// for opening dialer, or tel://01.02.03.04.05 for opening dialer with number pre-composed, each number need to be separated by one dot (in this example, it's a french number pattern), "tel" with no number do the same as "dialer".
message:// also exists for opening messaging app, but it opens it with form to create new message, i did not find a way to open it the same as if you open it from drawer/launcher, but if you add contact name or contact number after it + a third / it will open the contact thread (thanks @domubpkm for the finding) : message:///01.02.03.04.05
@dalharmony said in Android Apps Is A NonStarter:
I don't see how Ubuntu Touch will ever become more than a curiosity without being able to run them.
That's a bit odd to say that. It's like saying "i don't see how GNU/Linux desktop OS will ever become more than a curiosity without being able to run Windows programms"...
You don't choose GNUL to run windows apps or reject it because it can't, you choose it to free yourself from microsoft or apple. Same is UT with google or apple.
@nero355 said in Life with BQ4.5 after 20.04:
Well, I thought the following would be possible :
Keep using the 16.04 LTS release without OS updates/upgrades.
Keep using the apps that will still work with the 16.04 LTS as long as they do...Basically what I am doing with my current Android based ZUK Z2 Pro phone
That's what i'm going to do, as i also did after canonical drop.
I stayed 2 years with their last OTA using Open Store.
This time i hope by there Pinephone(s) will be full working devices, i'd really prefer open source hardware so no more vendor obsolescence.
https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/arale/
"This device currently offers minimal features, most of the smart functionalities might not work yet. It can be a very nice second device."
I run UT on MX4 from its launch by canonical and it's a perfectly fonctionnal phone.
Only battery percentage is bugging, but as i understood it was also the case under android.
I know very few if not no one will get a MX4 now, but its device page is wrong, please correct it.
@grenudi
So you can post not being aggressive and cursing !
Continue like that and more people will talk with you.
Especially since not everything you say is wrong.
Some people (even devs I guess) know that morph is kind of a problem for instance, some work is done to port firefox, and Librewolf (again, splitted forces), to Ubuntu Touch.
And yes some other apps may be replaced by more common FOSS apps.
But the way you say things, brutal and kind of insulting, is non productive.
Like you noticed, Dev team makes lot of usefull work, and Ubuntu Touch is a fully functional mobile OS since 2015, and thanks to UBports, it continues to be since 2017, and they had to deal with what canonical left them.
There is no other FOSS mobile system that provides such a service ! Maybe pureOS on Librem 5, I don't know, but what I know is it costs 900€ and is old hardware...
Anyway, let talk with respect to the dev team and community, please.
@bocephus
Stop being offensive right now please.
You have your thinking about what should be a GNU/Linux user, ok, well, that's your right.
Now being aggressive on other users just because they think different is not in the ubports community code of conduct.
You have twitter or facebook to do that...
@Lakotaubp said in Volla Phone X23 about to ship:
hard/ tough discussions carried out in a polite manner with respect and tolerance for the other persons views are fine
This.
If you insist calling name and cursing community members, we'll have to pull hammer out...
Here is not a jugement for what you are saying about Hallo Welt way to sell their rebadged gigaset with "only" software work on indiegogo diferently than on their online shop, but the way you say and argue it, and call name members that don't agree with you.
You're not on twitter or reddit here !
You don't need to be so aggressive... :flushed_face:
People here don't earn billions to do what they do, like GAFA do.
They earn nothing, and their only reward is optional donations and user using their work.
If you think some things could be better, tell, gently, sure you could even participate to make it better, it's a community work after all...
Now if you need help, ask, gently, and be patient for answer.
Have you even thought your problem could be hardware issue, sim connectors or sim port connectors, have you tried cleaning it?
@bforpc said in runnig a webserver - no chance:
If ubports should be more then a system for nerds and some special interest groups, then it should have more than the other 2 OS'es.
Before anything else, uTouch is a phone targeted os for people, any kind, that wish to get rid of gafam.
All those people need, 90% i'd say, is reliable basic smarphone features first, and if possible when such is done, reliable advanced smartphone features.
Right now there is lot to do for few devs, so just take on you and wait.
You can't ask ten devs or so, to achieve the same work that hundred of thousand do for the other 2 OS'es in the same time.
@0xinit69
IIRC you should find the settings for 2/3/4/5G in mobile settings in settings app.
Please from now don't use old threads, moreover from another device, to ask support, it will complicate searching infos for other users of this device doing so.
Only for the same device and issue you can do this (so all Infos for that issue/device are in the same place to find).
@GooglyBear said in uWolf (LibreWolf):
Unfortunately I have tested the 2 BitWarden apps available on the Open Store (it may be different if you are not running Noble) and they aren't working
@pparent said in Application Blablacar - connexion avec fb:
Je dis ça car ces infos intéressent peut-être donc des non-francophones
Malheureusement y'a peu de chances que les non francophones viennent lire la section frenchy 
C'est le problème avec les sections dédiées à d'autres langues sur n'importe-quel forum : la dilution des infos.
Is this thread and its four points about GNU/Linux on phones in general or about Ubuntu Touch in particular ?
@gpatel-fr
@gpatel-fr said in Smooth Edges (name pending) - Let's Fix the Bugs That Drive You Mad:
Are you saying that there is integrated into Android and IOS a way to get at your history from the other operating system and get back all your SMS threads and telephony calls ?
Yes, kind of.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/118670
https://support.google.com/android/answer/13626960?hl=en&sjid=12124687779136252823-EU
And regarding save and restore only (not transferring), Ubuntu Touch targets all user types, not only powerusers, so rsync or things like that is not relevant for the "normal" user.
I know work has been done for integrating a save and restore tool to the UBports installer, did see some image even I remember.
@Lakotaubp said in Ubuntu Touch OTA11 and 24.04-1.1 are released.:
Edit: It's not. Now to find out when it will.
And maybe 16.04 and devices only associated to, should be moved in a "legacy" section.
@kugiigi said in Smooth Edges (name pending) - Let's Fix the Bugs That Drive You Mad:
Ideally, an easy to use backup/restore solution as well.
+1
The ability to, the most easily possible way, save and restore (all) user data is a loooooooong time lack...
Also, another thing that can prevent people from testing UT is the lack of migrating tool, forward AND back.
When my N5@UT became unusable as daily, I had to migrate under FP5@FFOS and lost all my messaging data, now there's a stable port for FP5, but that very bother me to loose, again, all my SMS/MMS (not talking about RCS...).
If people can migrate from android to apple and the other way without worrying about their data, that's because those companies understood people will not migrate if their data can't migrate with them.
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