@rdfrs said in Best practice in UT with browser and mail: @Smirftsch I recently asked about the browser in one of the live Q&A's. They explained that Morph is based on an old version of the Chromium browser. So not all modern websites and features will be compatible. They are working hard on an upgrade. See here: https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/ubuntu-touch-q-a-165-3960 That definitely sounds good @wally said in Best practice in UT with browser and mail: A bunch of work has gone into browsers, but nothing's working perfectly for now. For me, Morph is still doing the job for the most part. I allow it to keep tabs open from session to session, and put passwords in when I need to. uFirefox has filled the gap for some websites that didn't work, although now there's uWolf, a fork of Librewolf, that I hear is making a lot of progress. My understanding is that the idea is to package whatever Qt 6 components are needed with Morph in 24.04, and then we'll have a much more up to date browser. And ideally a Firefox based browser like uWolf too. There was even impressive work on a Webkit based browser, Mimi. I found uWolf in store testing it now - as for the rest it seems I have to dig a little deeper. Valuable info! As for email, mine happens to work fine in Morph. I haven't used Dekko in a while. Maybe the dev has stepped back or been busy and nobody stepped up to take theIr place? I didn't realize it had so many issues, but the answer to why there isn't (x) in UT is because you and I didn't do it. But I appreciate that you know this, and maybe others will have solutions/workarounds to specific Dekko 2 issues. I assume something like this for the dev as well, which is my point here, I really think an email client is essential basic need for any (mobile) OS and should be a core component not relying on only maybe one single dev. Overall, a tonne of work and resources have been going into the upgrade to 24.04 and some other major improvements, like VoLTE, and encryption. Big, big accomplishments. After 24.04 lands/stabilizes, perhaps somebody will have time for Dekko. Welcome back! Hope you find solutions that work for you! that sounds all very promising and thank you for this very warm welcome! I hope there will be more input for me yet, since I am looking for a Linux based mobile phone solution as daily driver and UT is becoming definitely interesting

@TotalSonic thanks for that, really I'm interesting to see what possible solutions might be available.

@Alain it's great to read your good news! Thank you and I hope your daughter will enjoy her tablet for a long time.

@johndoe we are working on a plugin to lomiri system settings like Libertine plugin. I already have most things implemented in backend, mostly lack some generation control over nix/home-manager left other then that mainly implementing the main UI, I have a design ready just need to implement it.

@DenMoore Oh thank you! Nice start indeed! I think WayDroid needs some patches to run properly, this is a "porting" stuff. I'm sure it will come further.

@kristatos I concur! There are guidelines outlined by the gsma for an RCS client and from what I read from this reditor there are even Servers outlined in the GSMA docs for sending RCS messages for some carriers. It seems that SixDigitCode has made some great points for how a RCS client could be built. From what I see they have a handle on this spec, and it might be worth seeing if they are still around on the internet? I will post again with the updated documents from the GSMA and work on trying to break them down Helpful Reddit posts Post 1 Post 2

@harrisonpatm Please do! And let us know how you get on.

@arubislander said in Can I boot to tty/console only?: While it may not be exactly what you asked, you might be interested in a post I wrote on installing LXD and running LXD containers on your UT device. I'll be trying this now, thanks for the advice

@developerbayman x86_64? I don't think that'll happen. You probably already know that Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux distributions are almost always x86(_64) (meaning they're operating systems for computers). But... Ubuntu Touch is specifically customized to run GNU/Linux on phones, instead of smartphones running default operating systems like iOS, Android, or HarmonyOS (yeah, I'm adding that here because it's a real OS). If Ubuntu Touch had an x86_64 version, I'd find that very strange... Ubuntu Touch's interface is Lomiri, so there's already an x86_64 Ubuntu "distro" using that.

@lsitongia Great!

@mschmids Since some changes in mattix sdk cause the problems, it may well be that element web faces the same issues as cinny, because it likey uses that as well. Just a guess, though.

You can install Termux on any Android Tablet and run a full blown Linux desktop there. It's relatively easy to setup and works very well. That's at least my replacement until something comparable is reached in Linux OS world. The Volla tablet should get support on UT soon, at least I hope so and look forward to it.

I cannot edit so update in new post: I am able to boot into fastboot mode using standard key combination and trying install ubuntu touch.

Updated: Now this script is almost unnecessary on Ubuntu/Debian or some Ubuntu/Debian based distros, it can still run the old script fine. But I still do this project so that other Linux distro users can still build without any problems.