Signal UT: Signal-Desktop for Ubuntu Touch

messayisto

@pparent Would it be helpful for you to have a second phone?

pparent

Thank you very much for proposing, I currently have on top of my main phone:

*An old vollaphone (with broken screen, and I have datas on my waydroid session there that for now I would not like to relfash it for that reason)

*A pine-phone, that I wonder if I could use to try in-development versions (24.04.2)

*My old Nexus 5 that was my first UT device but completely outdated!

What are you proposing?

messayisto

@pparent I have a OnePlus Nord N10 that I could give to you if it's of any use. It's running 24.04-2.x and the battery isn't very good anymore. I would reset it to factory settings and send it to you. What do you think?

Moem

@pparent said in Signal UT: Signal-Desktop for Ubuntu Touch:

In order to get notifications you need to keep the application opened. Somehow you don't need to un-suspend the application in Ubuntu Tweaks, it seems the Xwayland apps are not suspended by the system. So note it might affect a bit battery life.

It does, but it's acceptable. Especially since notifications are quite important to me. It's so nice to see Signal notifs appear on my Pebble watch now!

pparent

@messayisto

Ok I think I can make use of the device, thank you very much! (and in any case if I don't need it anymore one day, or you need it again, I can always send it back to you.) I send you a PM.

@moem

In an ideal world Signal would provide an API for external webpush server, as telegram does, and we don't need to keep an app open ususpended to receive notifications.

mango

Did anyone figure out how to get the menus visible? I see menus flicker three times kind of and dies away. Is there a way to increase the text sizes, keyboard shortcuts? It is ridiculously small. tinytinytiny. Have I missed something here on how to increase the text size? Any hidden trick? A config file?

EDIT: Connected a keyboard via USB and pressed Ctrl ++. Text in some parts got bigger. Menutext still small.

pparent

@mango

Honestly not sure to understand, a screenshot might explain more. The top menu do not work (but are not useful anyway the best is to hide them). Normally the scaling should be good by default but if it isn't please mention what device you are using and the result in the terminal of:

getprop ro.sf.lcd_density

And

echo $GRID_UNIT_PX

mango

@pparent

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ getprop ro.sf.lcd_density
400
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ echo $GRID_UNIT_PX
21

Screenshot to illustrate how small the text is on the Fairphone 4 screen. The image may give the impression that it is bigger when in reality it is very small. Maybe something to do with the PPI of the screen.

pparent

@mango

Well it does not seem that small to me... Seems kind of similar on my phone (see the screenshot of the app in the openstore: https://open-store.io/screenshots/signalut.pparent-screenshot-80b19203-83e8-473f-a5a8-b79b6ef48e04.png )

It's true that scaling is a bit smaller than whatsweb currently, I might increase it a bit. Maybe other people can share their thought on that.

mango

@pparent
It seems to me that your screenshot shows that the text is bigger on your screenshot. Compared with the clock size font, your screenshot show font size approximate to the size of the clock font or even slightly bigger for the menu text. In my screenshot, the clock font is much bigger than the text font. Typing messages is almost impossible to see if not enlarged. The text is already small as it is, and it becomes tough to see when the font is half the size of the already small font.

Looking forward to working menus as well.

By the way, I tried to attach a photo from the camera, but the app crashed after creating the photo. Voice message works well.

pparent

@mango

Ok but I don't understand why you have icons that are that big on your phone in the top panel, in comparaison to my phone.

@mango said in Signal UT: Signal-Desktop for Ubuntu Touch:

By the way, I tried to attach a photo from the camera, but the app crashed after creating the photo. Voice message works well.

Try it again, as mentioned in the description of the app it may happen some times. It's always better to take the photo the normal way, and then load it from the gallery. I think the process of taking a picture diirectly through the camera app in contentHub is slightly buggy.

Looking forward to working menus as well.

If you're talking about the top menu, this will probably not happen soon. But I'm not sure why you would need them.