More Apps Please!!
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@idonthatevests Just a Linux user, looking for a phone OS compatible enough. Anyway thanks for your reply, I will give it a go.
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@tigermoth Do you have specific apps in mind? If they are open source, then there's a chance recompiling and updating some bits would make it work. In fact, someone did that for literal dozens of apps just recently
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@kugiigi Just the regular ones come preinstalled in Ubuntu. Email app being the most important one, the one already installed looked like buggy and unfamiliar. Evolution, Thunderbird or Fairemail would be awesome. Cheese, VLC, Chrome, open/libre office etc.
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About VLC I plan to try to port it when VLC 4.x is released because it seems to have an interface that is more mobile friendly.
About Chrome there is already Chromium in the Openstore, can it suit you, or do you want google Chrome for a specific reason? ( I guess most people if the choose not to use escape google/Android world, it might not be to install Google Chrome later in Ubuntu Touch)
For email did you try dekko2 ? (For me works well!)
From my point of view, I think you should consider, that many apps you mention have an interface designed for desktop, that would just not be pleasant to use on a phone screen, or even usable at all, if they were ported as is, this is the main reason they are no in the openstore. As a matter of fact many that you cite are installable through snap, or libertine, or other methods, and you could try that, but you will see they are of little use on a phone screen.
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@pparent Thanks for explaining that. I was presuming it would be easy-peasy to port the desktop apps to UT. Irony!
Anyway I tried Chromium, typing issue nothing prints. Chrome is more versatile for video compatibility, or may be Firefox.
I read the reviews of available email apps on Open store. Users sound like not too happy. Anyway I will try Dekko.
Is there an alternative to Gimp?
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@tigermoth I guess I misunderstood you. I thought you used Ubuntu Touch years ago and you're looking for some apps you used before
Sadly it's not easy to port those apps. The platform still needs to update some of its stack to get better Wayland/Xwayland support. That will happen but not very soon.
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@tigermoth instantpho is a photo editor, not gimp level but its something to check out.
also after exam season i will be continuing development of xdg-desktop-portal backend for lomiri which will make xdg apps integrate well, my goal is to eventually have flatpak natively on ut.
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@ChromiumOS-Guy said in More Apps Please!!:
i will be continuing development of xdg-desktop-portal backend
Yes more support for freedesktop standards is exactly what is needed for these needs.
FTR I tested a bit using crackle to install flatpak and running it with --user, it can install quite a few flatpak apps, main problems are the virtual keyboard, file access (that's where your effort would be great) and clipboard (could be solved by the future updates for wayland...). I was able to start a game of Gnu chess and play a few moves
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@tigermoth said in More Apps Please!!:
I was presuming it would be easy-peasy to port the desktop apps to UT.
If it was, don't you think someone would have done it?
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@tigermoth said in More Apps Please!!:
Anyway I tried Chromium, typing issue nothing prints. Chrome is more versatile for video compatibility, or may be Firefox.
Yes well I made a pull request to correct that I hope the app maintainer will publish an update soon!
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@tigermoth said in More Apps Please!!:
Firefox.
You can try uWolf, it's a version of libreWolf a fork of Firefox.
I think it might be a good idea to publish Firefox-esr itself in the openstore, somehow it's not the case yet.
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@pparent said in More Apps Please!!:
I made a pull request to correct that
Unsure what you wanted to correct, I hope it's not to publish Chrome on the Ubuntu Touch store, Google may object to that
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@gpatel-fr said in More Apps Please!!:
@pparent said in More Apps Please!!:
I made a pull request to correct that
Unsure what you wanted to correct, I hope it's not to publish Chrome on the Ubuntu Touch store, Google may object to that
No the fact that you cannot input passwords with the keyboard on Chromium for UT
