Signal-CLI on Ubuntu touch?
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That would certainly have great value to UT!
Personally I use Cinny and a Matrix bridge, but that's a rather indirect solution and I still need to run Signal in Waydroid every now and then. If Signal-CLI could take over that job, that would mean a lot! -
Ohh it would be great!!!!!
Signal is my favorit massanger and I cant get it run so far on UT.
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@aarontheissueguy this would be fabulous. I am using Signal on Waydroid but this is not more than a workaround. Signal-cli for me is among the top 5 missing aps.
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Once I get my Fairphone back from repair, ill start tinkering around with it. Ill probably also need to get a cheap phone number for testing.
I dont see why it shouldnt be possible. Ill have to package Java which sucks but its probably worth it.
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@aarontheissueguy I also thought it would be feasible to build a graphical client based on signal-CLI. It would be great if you succeed in porting it!
Although a drawback, I see is that signal-CLI is made to handle the device as the primary device for the account (as far as I'm aware of). To me with the experience of Axolotl being unreliable over time, I think having a client that works as a secondary device would be less risky.
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By the way I wonder if with Mir2.0 will be able to run electron apps through Wayland support, and therefore run directly signal-desktop natively in Ubuntu touch? (Without container)
If so we could simply adapt Signal-Desktop interface for mobile screen, and it could offer a nice solution for Signal on UT. Although it would require some maintenance because the release rate of singal-desktop is quite high.
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@pparent said in Signal-CLI on Ubuntu touch?:
we could simply adapt Signal-Desktop interface for mobile screen, and it could offer a nice solution for Signal on UT.
Sure, but that's only a secondary device, so we'd still need a primary...
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I would be more than happy to have a secondary device client. I would even say that I prefer a secondary device client. Because being an unofficial client to me this is to risky to let it handle the primary account, because if it fails it can also mess up my PC install ( as a secondary device )
Then you run the primary device in Waydroid or on a separate Android device.
What is the advantage to run it as a primary device?
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@pparent said in Signal-CLI on Ubuntu touch?:
What is the advantage to run it as a primary device?
To me: being able to dump Waydroid.
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But you don't have to actively run it. Actually I use signal everyday only on signal-desktop and molly as a secondary device, and the main account is on an old device that I never turn on, it works well.
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@pparent I know. Every month or so, it apparently needs to be opened in order to stay active. Or so it tells me.
But even so, I'd prefer not to need Waydroid at all and Signal is the only thing I use it for. -
In pratice I get this warning but nothing happens if you don't open it (at least for me). It has been months that I haven't opened the main device and everything works well.
The thing is that we can never hope to have a main device client that is reliable and with all features, if it is not official. Official support will not happen for UT in any forseeable future. And any unofficial client risks to end up in broken and unusable acvounts as it happened many times with axolotl.
And let's be realistic features like calls could possibly work one day with a customized build signal-desktop , but will likely never work with a custom client form scratch or based on signal-cli.
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@pparent In the real world, I'd be happy about any native Signal app for UT, be it secondary, primary or both.
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M Moem referenced this topic
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Hallo Aarontheissueguy,
how far you are with the development of a Signalapp?
If it is not possible, I would write to Signal itself and ask them, if there want to support Ubuntu touch and create a version for it.
The next question would be, if it wished from the community or the foundation, that I do that?
The thing for me is, that waydriod get more and more controlled by microsoft*, so have not a good feeling to use molly in long therm via waydroid.
- this is, what I reed about waydroid
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@bunt7 said in Signal-CLI on Ubuntu touch?:
this is, what I reed about waydroid
That is interesting, can you tell us where you read that?
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I will check it, maybe I mixed somthing up. I will prove it an answer soon
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sorry, I muddelt it up with github.
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The thing was, that I just switched to Ubuntu touch and wanted to keep using "simple calendar" on it, because I really like it.
But briefly I read, that microsoft is unfortunately the owner of github for view years now. And the "simple calendar" is from github.
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@bunt7 Not sure what MS being the owner of the source forge (GitHub in this case) has to do with the code hosted on there. It is not as if they are going to inject nefarious code during the build process.
At most the author might object to their code being used for machine learning. But that does not affect you as a user of the app in the least.
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By the way signal itself is hosted on github, it does not give microsoft any power over Signal. And in case of a problem it could switch to gitlab or anything else overnight.
Think of GitHub as some could storage for code. (But Microsoft cannot change the code without being detected immediately, because developers keep copies of the code on their machines)
