@Futura said in MY perspective and experience with UT:
The million dollar question is do they work on mobile.
Desktop apps that are convergent (=adapt to and work well on smaller screens) often advertise that fact in one way or the other. If they don't, you should not expect the experience to be pleasant.
@wally yes, that is largely correct. It is possible, of course, with snaps, and I presume the same for flatpaks, to package GTK apps so they run on a QT environment, and vice versa. And there are undoubtedly already some Qt mobile apps packaged as flatpaks. So the effort to get those supported might very well be worthwhile. It is just that up till now, no concerted effort has been expended.
@messayisto if the proposed feedback is to let the developer know if the app works on noble or not, such feedback is best given by opening an issue on the provided issue tracker link. Feedback in the app store tends to become stale and no longer applicable over time. Also the developer does not get notified when it is added.
@wally said in MY perspective and experience with UT:
Most Linux apps aren't exactly made for mobile, and whether we have Flatpak or Snaps, it's not going to mean that everything just works.
This is very true. However, with most other mobile Linux projects having gone the flatpak route, there are probably more mobile friendly apps in that format than snaps at the moment. The challenge for UT adoption, besides the packaging format, is that these are mostly GTK apps, which is a different toolkit than UT uses (comparable with Gnome apps running on a KDE desktop)
Developers of UT apps are being encouraged to also packages their apps as snaps. If adoption is picked up, the amount of mobile friendly apps in the snap store will increase. This will broaden exposure of these apps, making them available for desktops as well. But it will not in itself increase app availability on UT.
@marlboro50 to boot into fastboot, start your device normally, login in, open the Terminal app and execute the command sudo reboot -f bootloader
@Ernst-Jan15 said in Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 Beta 1 is now available for testing:
UWolf stopped working.
UT 24.04 issue, but an uWolf issue. The author of uWolk is already looking into it.
@YamiYukiSenpai have you simply tried it? Snap support is baked in with 24.04. you have to either install them via the terminal or use the snap store after installing that via the terminal.
Firefox snap however will still not work as yet, since the issue there are several, not having directly to do with snaps being able to be installed or not.
There is a Firefox click you could try though. That works better, even though it is not really optimized for small screens.
@wally said in Will Dekko2 make it to noble?:
At present Dekko hasn't been updated in 15 months and likely needs somebody to take the reins.
While it is true that there hasn't been a new release of Dekko2 in a while, the GitLab repo is still active with discussions and PR's and merges. I expect a new release will happen along with, or before noble.
@cbosse Unfortunately it doesn't support any kind of display out, unlike the FP4 and FP5.
@Vistaus TIL there is indeed such a fix! I am sure we will hear official communication about it if and when it becomes available for testing.
