Making Ubuntu Touch compatible with UnifiedPush ?
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There was already a post about UnifiedPush standard in this forum but there's not any interest: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/6249/unifiedpush-standard
Since then KDE community has developed their own distributor service to send notifications to their users: https://unifiedpush.org/users/distributors/kunifiedpush . It can even be configured to use self-hosted push server.
I expect that KDE community will adapt their applications (like Kaidan?) to use this service when available.
It would be cool if the Ubuntu Touch community could join the UnifiedPush standard to make it a greater target for application developers (more users use the same standard, more it will be worth for developers to implement it).
Would it be possible to use the KDE distributor service directly with Ubuntu Touch ?
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@adorsaz said in Making Ubuntu Touch compatible with UnifiedPush ?:
but there's not any interest
The reason that this was not picked up is because in the Open Source world, expressing the desire for something seldomly leads to it being realized. More often it is the ones who are already interested in it, who dive in and (learn the required skills to) make it happen.
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@arubislander I didn't express myself clearly, I apologize. What I meant to say was that the post in the forum didn't receive a single response, not even a “that could be interesting” or a “no way.”
I understand that in order to have an implementation, someone has to try. But personally, before trying, I would prefer to make sure that the work will not be useless. Especially in this case, where a push service already exists and there is a risk of duplication.
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@adorsaz Many of us on the forum may not know enough to have a well informed opinion on this. Certainly some devs hang around here, but many stick more to the various Ubuntu Touch Telegram groups.
For my part, I like the sound of what you're suggesting.. shared standards make a lot of sense to me. But I have absolutely no idea of the feasibility, and what the upsides and downsides for UT would be.
If you don't get more responses here, it could be worth asking on Telegram. -
@adorsaz There are a few complications when changing the push protocol. For the moment we already working on a unified push => ubuntu push bridge, and so you might want to join this Telegram group: https://t.me/+7zQzeeDVa38yZTIx We can discuss the things there in better detail
BR Florian
