Daily driver?

augustblake

It looks like this community pretty activate. I'm glad, I was looking into KDE plasma as well but it seems dead or in a slump. I look forward to contributing, and helping it grow.

gnugeek

@augustblake said in Daily driver?:

It looks like this community pretty activate. I'm glad, I was looking into KDE plasma as well but it seems dead or in a slump. I look forward to contributing, and helping it grow.

I was the same, With KDE being my main DE. but I gave up waiting.
I've switched to ubports as my daily driver yesterday and so far so good.

Only missing a discord app and a decent browser.

AppLee

@gnugeek said in Daily driver?:

Only missing a discord app and a decent browser.

Have you tried the RC channel ?
Most issues with the browser came from the old version of QtWebEngine being used.

~~Problem being recent versions of Qt are not compatible with older kernel found with old android devices.~~
Edit: I stand corrected

gnugeek

@AppLee no, i had not. I will try that tonight.
Thanks

AppLee

@gnugeek
You're welcome.
In RC, QtWebEngine is upgraded hence a better support of modern websites.

Not everything is nice and clean, but it improves the user experience a lot.

Keneda

@AppLee said in Daily driver?:

Problem being recent versions of Qt are not compatible with older kernel found with old android devices.

You mean old androïd device will not have an updated qt/morph in OTA13?

dobey

@AppLee said in Daily driver?:

Problem being recent versions of Qt are not compatible with older kernel found with old android devices.

This is not the case. Qt doesn't care what the kernel version is. And Qt Company provides builds of latest Qt 5.15 for Android.

Discord isn't a responsive web site, and also "decent browser" is vague and not descriptive at all, while being slightly rude implying that Morph is indecent.

dobey

@Keneda said in Daily driver?:

You mean old androïd device will not have an updated qt/morph in OTA13?

All devices will get the upgraded QtWebEngine.

Keneda

@dobey :grinning_face_with_sweat:

gnugeek

@dobey sorry i didn't mean to cause offence.

domubpkm

@gnugeek I love morph-browser ! i confirm it becomes better and better (thanks Balcy and @UniSuperBox for big big issues solved) and even on my daily phone BQ E5 HD (old kernel) dev and i confirm big improvement with qtwebengine upgrade.
If we go to see all open pull requests, after OTA-13 i think, it's sure morph-browser will become better and better.

david8kids

I just switched yesterday to my nexus 5 as my daily. Had to switch carriers since T-Mobile only lets volte devices on their network now, but it was worth iit

geekvine

@david8kids curious what network you switched to? i had to switch phones and would love to get back on UT.

dobey

@david8kids I'm pretty sure Nexus 5 has VoLTE support in the radio.

dobey

@gnugeek Do you have a specific list of things which Morph doesn't do well enough? Can you open issues on GitHub for those things which don't already have opened issues?

david8kids

@geekvine Cricket which runs on AT&T. They have until early 2022 before they start shutting down 2g and 3g.

david8kids

@dobey It does I believe but things are a little confusing. I've read it was never enabled through firmware and on Ubuntu Touch at least when you place a call it switches off of LTE. If I type the imei number in metro or T-Mobile it will say it doesn't support VoLTE so they won't activate it.

AppLee

@dobey said in Daily driver?:

Qt doesn't care what the kernel version is.

Thanks Dobey.
My bad I thought it had something to do with the old kernel but I probably mixed up topics.

gnugeek

@AppLee thanks for that, turns out this phone i installed ubports on shortly the OP3T support came out and then put away I hadn't updated it since.

the updated device has made a world of difference :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:

AppLee

@gnugeek
I'm glad to read that.