Ubuntu Touch Q&A 80 Saturday 18th July At 19:00 UTC

poVoq

Any thoughts on Canonical's recently announced efforts to port Google's Flutter framework to Ubuntu Desktop and especially the use of Mir for Wayland based desktop systems? It would seem to me like this would open the door for Flutter as a first class app framework on Wayland based UT ports as well...

poVoq

And another question:
With Lomiri being ported to Debian and the recent port to ManjaroARM (seem to run on the PinebookPro), is it even remotely realistic to decouple the application backend (click packages and media hub etc.) from core Ubuntu?

The background of the question is that potentially it might be possible to make what makes UT more independent of the Gnu/Linux base below, so that we might see a different backend instead(?) of the move to Ubuntu20.04?
IMHO if not only Lomiri but also the other stuff that makes UT would run on various distros, like for example snaps and flatpacks do, it would probably reduce the total maintenance burden (i.e. distribute it on more people) and allow faster development of the essentials of what makes UT a great mobile UI and app-ecosystem (as opposed to a full distro/OS).

Diogo

Last week a major battery management breakthrough for the PinePhone as been announced on twitter, when will there be an image of Ubuntu Touch that includes that?

Diogo

@poVoq This was discussed on the episode of two weeks ago.

dieharddan

Tried to watch this episode, but it says the video is set to private.

GizmoChicken

@Lakotaubp said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 80 Saturday 18th July At 19:00 UTC:

Ubuntu Touch Q&A 80 this Saturday the 18th of July at 19:00 UTC. Please come along and join us for Ubuntu Touch development, updates and answers to your questions! Post them here before the event and Youtube Livechat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSBGpt184R8 and Telegram during the live show.

At least for me, the link provided in the above announcement leads to a page stating: "Video unavailable. This video is private."

However, I am currently able to view a recording of Ubuntu Touch Q&A 80 at the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2B8FTecVts

GizmoChicken

@dieharddan said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 80 Saturday 18th July At 19:00 UTC:

Tried to watch this episode, but it says the video is set to private.

Try this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2B8FTecVts

Lakotaubp

@GizmoChicken Not sure why that has happend will try and find out.

dieharddan

@GizmoChicken that works, thanks

ubuntoutou

I wonder why this Q&A didn't say a word about the elephant in the room: the new availability of the pinephone which is now opened for order and its upgrade with 3GB of RAM and USB-C docking bar for convergence.

Vill

@ubuntoutou - I guess because it gets shipped with Postmarket-OS preinstalled. Its not native Ubuntu Touch.

Vill

@cliffcoggin - That was also happening in my case. I am searching for OTA-13, getting results from around 2016 and 2017. I guess this will diminish over time - in the next month.