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  • The Meta category: Organizational or general discussion.

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    I was thinking a custom keyboard with macros could build on Malakiboard. I've cloned jerk-click, jerk-installer and jerk-packages in the hope of PRing some day. For now, thank you for making it easy for everyone to install these 'hacks' which I believe should and could become a part of UT!

  • Discuss news updates from Ubuntu Touch and its related projects

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    I have sent a private message to @applee with the outcome of the voting for the Community Favourite Awards. Please read it at the QA tonight!

  • Discuss and solve problems with other users

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    said in What are a few straightforward ways to write notes in Ubuntu Touch and be able to get them on the Internet/WWW on my Debian PC?: emacs While all packages should work just fine inside of Libertine, the main issue is making the desktop tools usable on the phone. Libertine Tweak Tool was good for resizing text on the app to a comfortably readable font on a phone screen, only thing missing now is modifier keys on the software keyboard, and a way to force the keyboard to appear inside of emacs for me: this is because the 'touch-to-click' compatibility system isn't always the most reliable, and a program like emacs is of course macro-heavy. My biggest way around the Desktop / Mobile syncing problem actually comes down to avoiding it as much as possible, by having my phone do (almost) everything, as syncing takes time while HDMI output to an external display is instant

  • Community section for all languages other than English

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    Dit onderwerp is de plek om iets over jezelf te vertellen. Ik zal beginnen: Hallo, ik ben Moem! Ik gebruik Ubuntu Touch sinds een jaar of drie; daarvoor had ik LineageOS, maar ik wilde een stapje verder. Omdat ik nauwelijks Android had gebruikt, en weinig gewend was aan specifieke Android apps, was de overstap voor mij vrij makkelijk. Andere dingen waar ik blij van word: Linux Mint, dingen maken, wandelen, motorrijden, boeken en katten. En jij?

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    3600 seconds limit for edits? Really?!? Anyway, another attempt on a Mint Debian Edition computer instead of my usual minimal Devuan install gets further along. Hopefully it's ready within an hour so I can update my post. EDIT: flashing worked fine, also VoLTE is active now, which is nice.

  • Discussions on development of Ubuntu Touch

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    @Sentinel said in Smooth Edges (name pending) - Let's Fix the Bugs That Drive You Mad: I felt my post looked quite similar to many others early in the thread Well, yes, absolutely, I was too harsh in singling you out, because for sure some other people were also doing the same. The point I was trying to make is that a big part of being a leader is to priorize, and it's particularly important with a small project like UT, and thinking that priorization is easy is a very big mistake, leaders are not omniscient people who know miraculously how to best priorize. Putting a few dozen prople together to enumerate all what is bugging them is not so useful if no reasoning is done on why the points made are important from the point of view of wider adoption.

  • Discuss the user experience or design of Ubuntu Touch or its apps

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    @mirroronthewall Yes, this is surprisingly useful, as it means you don't always have to whip out a hardware keyboard, which defeats the point of the small form factor of a phone. Missing support for modifier keys is a big issue when using GUI apps in Libertine, as touch-to-mouse conversion often doesn't behave as it should and can get you 'stuck', so a fallback to keyboard shortcuts is just as necessary there as it may be useful in general: actually, your idea of creating macros for anything seems to solve many problems (including mine) at once, so congrats - now we just need to figure out how! The closest I've found is Ambot Installer: Hacks and Mods, although I need to set up a persistent amd64 QEMU instance on my arm64 laptop before I can allow myself to experiment with it freely (it's the only way I got the installer working). Other tools may be available but I have not been able to surface them yet, I will update this thread as I learn more about the issue and potential solutions. [UPDATE] Here is a list of interesting posts related to this problem, which may be a good starting point for building a bridge towards the solution: These are previous conversations on the repos which appear to have been abbandoned: https://github.com/ubports/keyboard-component/issues/96 gitlab.com/ubports/apps/terminal-app/-/issues/78 https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri-keyboard/-/issues/96 Instead, here are some useful links related to Malakiboard, which should be a good foundation to build macro functionality on: https://github.com/kugiigi/jerk-click https://github.com/kugiigi/jerk-installer https://github.com/kugiigi/jerk-packages

  • Creating Ubuntu Touch apps

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    @naz.R said in Merezhyvo browser: Download : permission denied ? Should be possible ? right, that's the platform limitation I was talking about in my previous message. The platform doesn't allow the browser to have access out of its own sandbox. And that's a bit tricky to avoid it. So for now Merezhyvo has access only to ~/.local/share/merezhyvo.naz.r/ Check my message above, please Yes, i understood You !! But i didn't understand well how to try to join a screenshot currently in github ! Copy / Paste ? What is the procedure ?

  • Porting Ubuntu Touch to new devices

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    @linhmieu Here is the Port Development Guide. Read through that first, and ask specific questions as they come up.

  • Lomiri, the operating environment for everywhere

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    Hello, I am currently running Ubuntu Unity 24.04 with Unity 7.7 desktop. I was wondering if it is possible to install Lomiri alongside to play around with it and switch between Unity 7.7 and Lomiri from the LightDM. I tried running Lomiri on Debian 13 but it did not work with multi-monitor in my case and so I cannot change to Lomiri as a primary desktop until this is repaired (as I see from the website, this is "under construction", per se). I love Unity and love to see the future of how this desktop develops as Lomiri formerly Unity 8. Thank you!!

  • Discussion on translating Ubuntu Touch and its core apps

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    @Vlad-Nirky Thank you. Done.

  • A place to discuss ideas for promoting Ubuntu Touch

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    @Jules We are aware of this and we are having a good look at it.

  • Other Projects

    Projects which are started by a group within the UBports community

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    @uxes That is a great program, but I heard that ATL relies on GTK. Which is not integrated into UT. And besides, list of supported apps is limited compared to Waydroid.

  • For things that just don't fit in the other categories.

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    @lduboeuf said in Tip: call a contact with one hand (secret UT key !): Works well on my side when starting to dial for a number and/or for the letters. But may have some issue if e.g number is stored with a region prefix or not. ah it finally dawned on me. How to use the letter dialing: if you want to call someone whose name in your contacts is say 'fred idotme', press first 3 for f (3 is def) and then 7 for r (7 is pqrs) and the software will propose (among possibly other ones) the searched for contact. As was said I think in Tintin, it's obvious once you think of it. Ah the nostalgia of desktop software lost in the mists of time when there was a F1 key to get help. Apart of this, yes it works pretty well except that of course if you are trying to search for a number, as in my country all portable number begin by either 06 or 07 it's not so useful. And as you say, if you use a prefix like the #31# that is used in my country to be able to call someone without revealing your own, using the real number does not lead for a prediction; that is, if the contact is #31#0102030405, typing 0102 does not display the contact even if it's the only one matching on the real number. To be candid that's why I almost exclusively use the contacts list to call people