Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns

domubpkm

Yes, being able to send and receive MMS without problems is one of the fundamentals of all current smartphones and must also become so for UT, especially for all new UT models in development.

poVoq

@keneda I really never saw anyone sending images via mms. Don't have people messengers for that? I mean, why would anyone pay for MMS (or get a contract with free mms) when you can send them for free with a messenger (or at least get more general purpose internet volume). But I guess those people really exists mind blown.

trwidick

@povoq The point of this tread is to give input on what you think we should do better, your dreams and wishes. Your unicorn the one off thing that would make using UT magical. Do you have any valid input? What changes do you want to see?
Do you want facebook messenger built in to the os like most android phones?

Keneda

@povoq
I don't know where do you live but in France SMS/MMS are unlimited and free of charge with any contrat...
And i think it's the same in quite all countries in Europe, so yes, MMS is commonly used.

Oh and MMS works with any smartphone, no need for the same "messenger" app installed in both sending and receiving phone, it's GAFAM and third part app free.

magnargj

@trwidick

magnetometer sensor working
protonmail bridge or similar, generic solution
kde connect
purism's effort to integrate xmpp and matrix into chatty is very interesting and integratin sip in calls

However, I think the UT developers are doing such a great job, that I almost feel ashamed by listing anything.

trwidick

@magnargj I love this and tottaly agree. A protonbrigde would be awsome.

Emphrath

Hardware acceleration.

trwidick

@emphrath Like OpenGl?

Keneda

@trwidick
Like for decoding videos in media player or on websites like youtube i believe ^^

trwidick

@keneda A agree this can be very Important. I use youtube at work everyday. No better way to find a teardown of a laptop that needs a new motherboard or jack replaced. I wish i could code our problems away, but i do not code. The pixel 3a i think has hardware encoding, youtube works quite well, with out buffering, or skipping frames I might be wrong tho.

Keneda

@trwidick no device under uTouch has hardware decoding working for now, as where the GPU decoding feature is directly used for that purpose.

But devices with enough CPU power can decode without GPU acceleration help, wich is software decoding.

In fact any device can, but some you'll have to stay on SD, where some other will allow HD 720 or 1080p without problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_acceleration

trwidick

@keneda Thank you, I did not know that no UT device did not have Hardware decoding.

dobey

@magnargj said in Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns:

protonmail bridge or similar, generic solution

A webapp should work fine for that, and you can use Webber to make it a bookmark on your device. Their client app is also now open source, so it should be possible instead to create a proper application rather than using the odd bridge thing.

dobey

@keneda Well, nothing has hardware decoding working in browser. There is some fixes where hardware rendering of video can be done, on some devices, but I think it's not merged yet.

Android devices do have accelerated decoding in mediaplayer app, though, through the hybris plug-in for gstreamer we use.

magnargj

@dobey indeed, that is what I'm doing now. But getting those e-mails into dekko would be nice too. I saw someone had done this on mobian, but it was a bit too involved/complicated for me...

I didn't know it was open, maybe we'll see an app eventually

Keneda

@dobey said in Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns:

Well, nothing has hardware decoding working in browser.

When you say nothing, you mean on PC too ?

dobey

@keneda Nothing in the context of running Ubuntu Touch on phones. I don't know if the ffmpeg stuff does hardware decoding on PCs or not, but I think probably it doesn't either.

Keneda

@dobey said in Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns:

Nothing in the context of running Ubuntu Touch on phones.

OK that's clearer ^^

I don't know if the ffmpeg stuff does hardware decoding on PCs or not, but I think probably it doesn't either.

I imagine you talks here about GNU/Linux PC, because as i remember, on windows, GPU is used in webbrowsers (that's why i was confused by the "nothing").

dobey

@keneda Well, yes, GPU is used in Linux by browsers too, at least for rendering acceleration. Using hardware decoding if available, in Linux, has always been trickier because it's not something drivers tend to provide, for example, and AFAIK GStreamer and other things don't have decent detection or handling of such things.

Emphrath

@dobey I have extensively used ffmpeg for livestreaming, and with the correct flags, you can force hardware decoding on some architectures, and it drastically decreases cpu usage