Signal UT: Signal-Desktop for Ubuntu Touch
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@klh said in Signal UT: Signal-Desktop for Ubuntu Touch:
@pparent iirc my immodules hack won't work for Wayland, and you won't get an onscreen keyboard in Mir 1.8 because it's missing all the IME protocols.
I haven't looked at what electron-only features the signal-desktop app uses, but you could look into packaging Node.js and running the back-end parts there with a shim in WebEngine to communicate with that. Not trivial, but would give you near-perfect integration with the OS.
Yes I had thought about this option, but I in reality want to remain as close as possible from original client, and keep a small set of patches. For these reasons:
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1°) Because Signal-Desktop needs regular updates, as old versions get outdated fast and are not anymore compatible with the protocol. A version of Signal-Desktop is valid for 3 months. So I don't want heavy hacks that will not port easily from one version to another. I need to be able to recompile newer versions without headaches.
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2°) Because I want to minimize the risk of security breach coming from Signal-Desktop customization.
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3°) I want to avoid that Signal project may not be happy about our client because of messing too much with their protocol/client.
So If nothing is possible while keeping the binaries as is, I will stay with X until Mir2.x release.
Can you confirm, that the keyboard with Wayland should be better with Mir2.x?
Ps: I'm currently debuging and trying to patch the code of maliit-inputcontext-gtk, to try and solve the bugs we currently have with the keyboard with X.
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