Ubuntu Touch Q&A 179 Call for Questions

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Ubuntu Touch Q&A 179 is live this Saturday 29th Nov so if you can please join us at the usual time of 19:00 UTC.
Before then, if you have any questions on or about Ubuntu Touch and UBports please post them below and we will do our best to answer them in the Q&A.

Remember that questions on porting to device **** or its status, and questions on bugs, will not be answered.

captainfunk

Hii everyone

Thanks for the continuing efforts bringing UT to new highs !

What are the pros and cons between a device relying on an old version of Halium and another device relying on a more recent version of Halium ?

Thanks guys

projectmoon

Are there plans for under-screen fingerprint sensors? E.g. for the Volla Quintus.

gandalf

What's the official take on smooth edges by mariogrip?

https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11644/smooth-edges-name-pending-let-s-fix-the-bugs-that-drive-you-mad

RJDan

I would like to ask that you do a quick announcement for the 'Community Awards'.
Things have developed quite well with a lot of input from other community members.
This year we will have only two categories:

Community favourite app
Community favourite developer

The prize for each category:

a large pizza (details TBD).
a webpage mentioning your award and why your won (details TBD).

Nominations are open until the evening of 1 Dec. Each forum member can nominate two nominees for each category (here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11623/call-for-nominations-for-the-ubports-community-awards?_=1764437371137 )

The current nominees are as follows:

Community favourite app

OSM scout server
uWolf
Morph QT6
futify
dekko
Sapot
Keeweb
Podcat
RockWork
Teleports
OpenStore
Waydroid
LogViewer

Community favourite developer

@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)
@lduboeuf (Lionel Duboeuf)
@alan_g (???)
@? (Vlad Nirki)
@Fuseteam (Tobiyo Kuujikai)
@? (Kugi Eusebio)
@CiberSheep (Joan)
@? (Muhammad)
@? (Ratchanan)
@Danfro (???)
@? (Jonathan Zeidler)

Prizes

Any one who wants to contribute to the prizes or make them more interesting is very very welcome to let us know what they have in mind.