Signal UT: Signal-Desktop for Ubuntu Touch

pparent

It has probably nothing to do with the Android uprade, there is currently a know random crash when uploading files specifically a Picture. I've investigated and found where the bug comes from, I will try to fix it next week.

Try again several times and you will probably observe that sometimes it crashes sometimes not.

messayisto

@pparent thanks a lot!

pparent

I've published version v8.3.0-1, it brings the following improvements:

Significantly improve the reliability of ContentHub.
Fix the issue with searching for messages in conversations.
Fix access to the media panel in contacts.
Fix the message menu opening inappropriately when scrolling.
Fix the application for the 24.04-1.x daily branch.
Improve reactivity at startup.
Update to Signal Desktop 8.3.0.

Don't hesitate to report if everything works well for you!

messayisto

@pparent yea, it has improved, thanks! one question: was it before that one can only send one single picture?

Moem

@pparent Looks good!

I have a question... I recently tried running SignalUT on UT version 24.04.2.x and it would not run. Is that still the case?

My reason for wanting to run the 'bleeding edge' version is that it gave me great improvements in battery life.

pparent

@Moem said:

I have a question... I recently tried running SignalUT on UT version 24.04.2.x and it would not run. Is that still the case?

No Idea about the state of 24.04.2.x for now, I can only say that this version works with current 24.04-1.x daily branch!

They are constantly doing updates on the bleeding edge branches, that impact XWayland apps, it's hard to keep updated all the time.

danfro

@Moem I just tried it on 24.04-2.x daily. The app opens, loads messages, briefly shows the chat list and then crashs. On the second start if hangs at the splash screen. So no, broken on 2.x.

Moem

@pparent said:

I can only say that this version works with current 24.04-1.x daily branch!

Fair enough! That's great!

They are constantly doing updates on the bleeding edge branches, that impact XWayland apps, it's hard to keep updated all the time.

Ah yes, that makes sense, thank you.

pparent

@messayisto

Hum that's true that there is a strange thing happening with uploading PDF. I will try to see that in next revision.

In the mean time from my experience if you try it upload a PDF after uploading a picture first (without necessarily sending it), then it works.

Ida_

@moem All though the app doesn't run 100% on 2.x at the moment, I use it to check messages whenever my Signal bridge is a bit under the weather. It always starts after a couple of tries. (No OSK, but very useful to check if there are any important messages waiting.)

I am so grateful for all the effort you put into this, @pparent , thank you!

pparent

@danfro @mango

There's actually a transition problem, with the change they have made on handling XWayland windows. I.e what works on stable does not work on 24.04-1.x daily, and conversely, and provoke crash.

In order to handle the transition I've done a conditional code with a fuzzy check of the version it's running on. So for now I've done the detection based on the current state of 24.04-1.x daily , I've not included 24.04-2.x . It's not trivial to adapt to a constantly evolving base.

BUT normally in few month when 24.04-1.3 will be an old memory I will fully switch to the new way of doing things, and it should be fine on all newer branches.

Also I know that few month ago there was an OSK problem with 24.04-2.x , not sure if it's still the case.

danfro

@pparent please don't get me wrong. I know that 2.x daily is bleeding edge, so I don't expect you to fix that imediately. Just wanted to share my experience.
Interesting that @ida_ gets it working eventually. Maybe I would need to try more often.

pparent

@messayisto said:

@pparent yea, it has improved, thanks! one question: was it before that one can only send one single picture?

Ps: I misread your comment I thought you where reporting a bug when uploading PDF files that is indeed present.

But yes, you won't be able to upload more than one file at once, at least until we can switch to Walyand with Mir2.x.

Ida_

@danfro In reality I always get it to work for maximum half a minute at a time before it closes, and without a working keyboard, but long enough to check messages.

pparent

@danfro

Well no problem really, I was'nt getting you wrong!

Actually it is possible to do a small edit through the terminal to make sure the app does not crash, I will explain in post bellow.

But if the OSK still does not work I'm not sure it will be very usefull. And the OSK problem in 24.04-2x seem to concern all XWayland apps (including uWold and Chromium for UT)

danfro

@Ida_ ah, ok. Not iedal, but sometjing. I get less than a second. I am not that quick in reading.

pparent

Or if you want to use commands in the terminal you can try to paste this in the terminal, it should fix the crash in 24.04-2.x branch (but will not solve the OSK problem):

sudo sed -i "s/\[ \"\$?\" -ne \"0\" \]/\[ \"0\" -ne \"0\" \]/g" /opt/click.ubuntu.com/signalut.pparent/current/launcher.sh
sudo sed -i "s/\[ \"\$?\" -eq \"0\" \]/\[ \"0\" -eq \"0\" \]/g" /opt/click.ubuntu.com/signalut.pparent/current/utils/filedialog-deamon.sh

danfro

@pparent thanks a lot for the quick response. Just some feedback in case others try that:

yes, the app now opens, but...

I can't close it, when swiping into the drawer, it becomes a transparent window which I can't swipe to close
I couldn't reboot with the power button since that was somehow blocked

I hope that makes some sense to you.

pparent

@danfro said:

I couldn't reboot with the power button since that was somehow blocked

I really don't think this can have anything to do with running Signal UT, including the patch I've shared above. I don't see how the app could have an impact on the effect of your power button. Especially because it's confined.

@danfro said:

I can't close it, when swiping into the drawer, it becomes a transparent window which I can't swipe to close

I see that happening from time to time, including with other apps. I think it's more a Lomiri bug. Anyway you can just start another time the app, and kill the launcher indicator, it should kill the remaining transparent window.

danfro

@pparent my description was maybe not clear enough. The power button itself works. It brings up the power menu, but pressing the buttons failed. But I can't reproduce it right now (after a reboot). So who knows...