More Apps Please!!
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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
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@pparent There is already an up to date Firefox click. But the author is aiming for better clipboard and contenthub integration before releasing it to the open store. Also there's the issue of permission from Mozilla for using the name and trademarked graphics.
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Yes I know abut uFirefox.
Distributions like Mobian, or postmarketOS, don't seem to bother much about trademark concerns, in this situation.
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@pparent good point. I wonder how that is arranged.
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@gpatel-fr oh thats great, did you need to config bindmounts or did it just work?
as for xdg desktop portal filechooser backend it won't be to hard to implement some elements but its in the backburner until i get the infurstructure for it right
also for keyboard thats an easy fix you need to include a cache file look to ufirefox/uwolf for example on how to get gtk apps to use maliit
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@tigermoth Merezhyvo Browser is built on top of Chromium and is fully convergent
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@ChromiumOS-Guy said in More Apps Please!!:
did you need to config bindmounts or did it just work?
no bindmounts necessary; flatpak --user does not use any service.
I did some fiddling at some point with the (local) mime configuration but I am not sure it was needed, it was when I was trying to make it work using the extracted debian packages, it was really difficult and using nix solved it.
I have tried mostly Kde apps, they need all
export QT_FONT_DPI=280
and some
export GALLIUM_DRIVER=d3d12
To test some apps, the initial dialog boxes are the most annoying since there is no keyboard.
The thing that stunned me was with Okular (the Pdf viewer) when I realized that I could zoom by pinching the screen, while it was the desktop version ! that's why I am most interested in Kde apps, they are more mobile oriented because of Plasma mobile I think.
@ChromiumOS-Guy said in More Apps Please!!:
also for keyboard thats an easy fix you need to include a cache file look to ufirefox/uwolf for example on how to get gtk apps to use maliit
I thought first of compliing a Ubuntu touch driver for each Kde pack but it's not obvious to learn to compile various stuff for UT, especially at things that no one other than a core dev would touch. It would be a cleaner fix though
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@gpatel-fr said in More Apps Please!!:
also for keyboard thats an easy fix you need to include a cache file look to ufirefox/uwolf for example on how to get gtk apps to use maliitI thought first of compliing a Ubuntu touch driver for each Kde pack but it's not obvious to learn to compile various stuff for UT, especially at things that no one other than a core dev would touch. It would be a cleaner fix though
Honestly I don't know why maliit/inputcontext-gtk is not included by default in the system, so that it does not have to be included in the apps. Although the problem is that this module has some bugs and I had to make some very hacky patches to get it to work properly with SignalUT and Min Browser (spoiler: and soon Rocket.Chat ).
But hopefully this won't be necessary to use this module when we can switch to Wayland with Mir2.x .
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@kugiigi Taking quite a while mate.
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@Moem You're right. My bad
