Signal-CLI on Ubuntu touch?
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@bunt7 Not sure what MS being the owner of the source forge (GitHub in this case) has to do with the code hosted on there. It is not as if they are going to inject nefarious code during the build process.
At most the author might object to their code being used for machine learning. But that does not affect you as a user of the app in the least.
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By the way signal itself is hosted on github, it does not give microsoft any power over Signal. And in case of a problem it could switch to gitlab or anything else overnight.
Think of GitHub as some could storage for code. (But Microsoft cannot change the code without being detected immediately, because developers keep copies of the code on their machines)
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@arubislander Thanks arubislander and pparent, it helps me to get an more differentiated view on the subject.
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@bunt7 So unfortunately I still don't have a functional Fairphone. It's been two months and Fairphone support has been dead silent apart from bot mails.
According to some Fairphone forum user, the support at Fairphone has basically been non-existent since January. I don't know what that tells you about the state of a company. I'm honestly quite shocked, considering their mission to make long-lasting phones.I think I might be able to send it to Murena for Reflashing. Once I get it back, I will start development.
I wont give any ETA here, It will probably still take a few months until i can present anything usable.
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But what do you think about basing a solution on a custom build of signal-desktop?
Because this seems to me the most promising way it have it running (Especially with upcoming Wayland-compatible Mir2.0), and I might give it a try when I have time.
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@pparent My main goal would be to package signal-cli for using your UT phone as primary device. Anything else is not really in my scope.
Porting and altering an application like Signal Desktop would also add a bunch of complexity and would change the approach completely.
I read that you can now install snaps on UT, perhaps ill package my project as a snap that would make it less tied to Ubuntu Touch and would probably make development much easier.
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@aarontheissueguy
I ask, because I would ask Signal, if there want to bring Ubuntu Touch forwards and create a version for it.
AppLee told me, there reject to do it, but it was a while ago. So there is nothing to loose to give them another try. -
You should definitely see this post, I really think signal-desktop is the way to go:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11532/signal-ut-signal-desktop-for-ubuntu-touch
