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    Ubuntu Touch Q&A 77 Saturday 6th Of June At 19:00 UTC

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        A Former User
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        Hello,

        There was some chitter chatter on Telegram about the current top bar/indicators area and how it is perhaps not the best thing on mobile devices. What do you envisage for the top bar/indicators as and when the time comes for it to be improved? Something like we see on Android?

        Thanks. Keep up the great work:person_juggling_light_skin_tone:

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          zubozrout
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          With PinePhone having the ability to run Wayland apps, how is the work on bringing this support to Android based devices and which ones are not going to make it? Having Wayland compatibility everywhere would (I expect) allow developers to bring over a lot of opensource games as so far there only were a few (ExtremeTuxRacer, Neverball, Neverputt) but these are no longer available.

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            stefwe
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            With the Community Edition of the Pinephone, a very large donation is now coming to ubports. Where can I find out the amount of the donation and how do you plan to use the money?

            Meizu MX4 16.04 | Nexus 5 16.04

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              AppLee @stefwe
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              @stefwe
              Hi "a very large donation" is somehow relative 🙂
              With roughly 5K Pinephone CE sold the donation will be around 50K$ which is not enough to hire a junior software developer for a year.

              But it's still substancial and might help a lot.

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                libremax @AppLee
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                @AppLee said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 77 Saturday 6th Of June At 19:00 UTC:

                With roughly 5K Pinephone CE sold the donation will be around 50K$ which is not enough to hire a junior software developer for a year.

                It depends on the country.
                In France, it's enough to hire 1 junior software developer for a year,
                in Portugal 2,5 and in India 7

                Donate anonymously 1€/$ by year to UBports, all Ubuntu Touch users can do it ! Demonstration:
                https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1262/donate-anonymously-1-by-year-to-ubports-all-ubuntu-touch-users-can-do-it-demonstration/

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                  domubpkm @AppLee
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                  @AppLee Whatever decisions are made, i think this will allow development to progress comfortably over the second half of the year, which will be a pivotal period for the future !!

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                    AppLee @libremax
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                    @libremax
                    The cost of an employee for a corporation is not the same as its salary.
                    There are differences also regarding the status of the employer (UBports being a non profit...)

                    But that's not the point. My point was what a person considers "a very large donation" is not quite the same when you're a foundation like UBports.

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                      libremax @AppLee
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                      @AppLee said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 77 Saturday 6th Of June At 19:00 UTC:

                      @libremax
                      The cost of an employee for a corporation is not the same as its salary.

                      I am well aware of that and in France 50 K€ for employer is equivalent to 25 K€ for the employee (32 K€ gross income) and may be sufficient depending on place of residence.

                      But that's not the point. My point was what a person considers "a very large donation" is not quite the same when you're a foundation like UBports.

                      It's not "a very large donation" but if used to pay an indian developer for 5 years, it could be more usefull than 6 months for an USA developer.

                      Donate anonymously 1€/$ by year to UBports, all Ubuntu Touch users can do it ! Demonstration:
                      https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1262/donate-anonymously-1-by-year-to-ubports-all-ubuntu-touch-users-can-do-it-demonstration/

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                        Lakotaubp
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                        Going a bit OT for here. Thanks.

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                          ubuntoutou
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                          Two questions if I may ask:

                          1 - How would it be possible to lower the minimum screen brightness?

                          2 - Would it be possible to have a full-screen function like the F11 function there is on Ubuntu Desktop? This would allow to display more lines to read on the web browser by hiding the web page address at the top of the screen. This would be particularly handsome in landscape mode.

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                            MV @UBportsNews
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                            @UBportsNews Hi all and thanks all the community for the great job is doing. I'm following UBports from the beginning and some weeks ago I decided to use as 'primary ' phone my Aquaris E5 (the original Ubuntu Edition and pass the Android Aquaris X5 Plus phone as backup).
                            I'd like to know if there will be some development in the future to port the Librem5. When I decided to join the crowdfunding, it was mainly because it seemed that there was a collaboration and in the future the chance to port Ubuntu Touch on the Librem5. In theory I should receive it, the Evergreen batch, in August. Can I still hope that Ubuntu Touch will be ported on it?

                            MV
                            BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition
                            Volla22 Dual Boot: VollaOS - Ubuntu Touch

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                              poVoq
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                              With the upcoming merge of the updated qtwebengine, anyone looking into website notifications and webpush for Morph and webapps?

                              Fairphone 5 (waiting for port)

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                                alan_g @UBportsNews
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                                Could apt be replaced with a script directing people trying to use it outside libertine to an explanation of why it's a bad idea?

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                                  potet
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                                  Two questions regarding the current plans for apps across different mobile distros. They might be stupid or previously answered, but I did not have much luck with the search function. I'm not particularly concerned with the state of affairs at the moment, this is more about where the development is headed over the next months and years.

                                  1. As far as I understand, Plasma Mobile and Ubuntu Touch are making some efforts to make the same Qt apps run effortlessly on both platforms. Is it likely that the same app store (OpenStore, I assume) would be a default feature on both platforms?
                                  2. The Gnome world seems to have a completely different take on the issue, with GTK4 apps developed with an adaptable interface using libhandy being seen as the way of the future. Will software developed in this manner (like future releases of Geary or Gnome Maps) be easily available on UT, possibly even in the OpenStore? And should it be expected to run about as well on Ubuntu Touch as, say, PostmarketOS?

                                  Guess I'm just worried about fragmentation. 🙂

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                                    Opolork
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                                    What did Flo say was his Twitter account? lamux? linux_mage?

                                    How can you trust that an app really won't send some company your location data, when you tell it not to? The only way you can trust a program not to do something it isn't supposed to do is if it is free software. ~ RMS

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                                      A Former User @Opolork
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                                      @Opolork lanux_mage
                                      Here's his twitter: https://twitter.com/lanux_mage

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                                        Opolork @Guest
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                                        @Loops said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 77 Saturday 6th Of June At 19:00 UTC:

                                        @Opolork lanux_mage
                                        Here's his twitter: https://twitter.com/lanux_mage

                                        Thanks, Loops. 🙂 :thumbs_up_light_skin_tone:

                                        How can you trust that an app really won't send some company your location data, when you tell it not to? The only way you can trust a program not to do something it isn't supposed to do is if it is free software. ~ RMS

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                                          Keneda
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                                          Are you planning to add full device encryption on devices that can handle it with UT?
                                          Encryption is important for privacy issues, but i think you know that already :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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                                          2023-2024 : Nexus 5 ☠️⚰️✝️
                                          2024-***** : FPOS Fairphone 5 waiting UT for freedom 😉
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                                            Lakotaubp @Keneda
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                                            @Keneda Might be best to save the one till next weeks Q&A becomes available

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                                              Keneda @Lakotaubp
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                                              @Lakotaubp
                                              Yes, i don't know why i though this thread was about Q&A for yesterday, but there was not Q&A yesterday lol...

                                              2015-2023 : Meizu MX4 ☠️⚰️✝️
                                              2023-2024 : Nexus 5 ☠️⚰️✝️
                                              2024-***** : FPOS Fairphone 5 waiting UT for freedom 😉
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