Ubuntu Touch Q&A 168 call for questions

TotalSonic

@UBportsNews - Is there a plan as to what to do with the core Notes app for Noble?

From my understanding, it seems that the api that it uses to sync with Evernote is being deprecated by them, and given that Evernote is a commercial service that only offers syncing between two devices for its free basic plan, and also given that this is based on a legacy connection established and coded by Canonical, I was wondering how this effects Notes app in UT in the future.

Given that NextCloud provides a well known and well supported FOSS solution for file syncing, that already has account support in the System Settings, as well as other UT native apps (e.g. GhostCloud, UBsync) that use it, perhaps the way forward is to change to NextCloud syncing for the Notes app. There is also the JotIt app in the OpenStore, which syncs notes with NextCloud, that perhaps could be forked as a replacement for the Notes app.

Or, is the plan to just remove the Notes app from the list of core provided apps, given it seem there is no maintainer for it currently?

Thank you for all your continued work on UT!

Best regards,
Steve Berson

TotalSonic

@UBportsNews - with more support for snaps coming in Noble, are there plans to also fix the bugs in Libertine, or does it make sense given the clunky legacy implementation of its code, that hasn't had anyone step up to maintain it, to just deprecate Libertine in Noble instead?

Best regards,
Steve Berson

Ida_

What is the general state of emergency alert messages in UT? It seemes available in the UI, but can users expect it to work in an actual emergency?

Could this be added to the device pages as one of the items in the check list, if it is expected to work?

stanwood

Hi all,

Now that VoLTE work is well underway, are there any plans to work on VoWiFi? I assume the IMS service base is similar?
Thank you so much, and congrats for all your work!

Stanwood

johndoe

Hello @captainfunk , maybe I misunderstand your question about the rotation, but you can already rotate the screen vertically and horizontally. To lock or unlock the automatic rotation:
a) Open the settings app and you will see the option to turn it on or off
or
b) Swipe down from the top of your screen and go to the second last option on the left

captainfunk

thanks but I know that, i think you misunderstood my question. If you consider that the normal position of the screen is 0 degree (with the bottom of the screen being the usb charging port) then the actual possible rotations are 90 and 270 degrees but you can't do 180 degrees, I don't know how to explain it better

Lakotaubp

@captainfunk You mean if you rotate so that the usb port becomes the "top" of the phone the screen does not rotate with it. Which it does not even on an android phone I have.
As to why, no idea : )

Bolly

@Lakotaubp said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 168 call for questions:

@captainfunk You mean if you rotate so that the usb port becomes the "top" of the phone the screen does not rotate with it. Which it does not even on an android phone I have.
As to why, no idea : )

In Xenial they implemented it and it works. I don't remember in which OTA it started working.

captainfunk

@Lakotaubp yes that's it, it's possible on waydroid but not on UT. I like that in waydroid because I have a Pixel 3a XL and the audio jack is not on the on the same side as the usb port so it's very useful when listening to music or watching a video, but when I go back to UT everything is upside down... I wasn't aware of that problem when I chose the Pixel ^^

johndoe

@captainfunk Oh, ok, I understand.

Lakotaubp

@Bolly Doesn't on FP5 Noble JFI