Dekko2 Developer Community Thread

hummlbach

@joe no, there are no daily builds. Here is the list of releases or tags: https://gitlab.com/dekkan/dekko/tags.
We will add a new click package there everytime we fixed something until @DanChapman returns.

arubislander

@ellypsis had the right idea. No need to wipe the device. Clearing cache, app data and config of Dekko 2 in the Tweak Tool also does the trick.
Don't forget to stop the dekkod service after that, or else perform a reboot, before re-adding your account(s).

stefwe

@arubislander Your description don't work for me on my n5.

arubislander

@einstein212 did you also reboot your device or stop dekkod then start dekkod before re-adding your email account(s) to Dekko?

If you did. What issue do you face exactly?

Lakotaubp

Now dekko2 beta working on OPO.
Remove cache, data,config and delete with UT Tweak
Then ran rm -f ~/.config/upstart/dekkod*
Restart device. I then ran the rm command again, just to be extra sure. Reinstall dekko2 beta1. You should get set up account page. Thanks to Johannes Renkle for the command and everyone else involved.

stefwe

@lakotaubp Your last instruktions worked. Dekko beta is now running. Thanks to all how are working so hard to get this running...

hummlbach

Special thanks for that finding goes to @zubozrout and @Flohack. They found out what was wrong.

Lakotaubp

@hummlbach and so say all of us. Big Thanks.

dekkerj1

@flohack Same problem on my Nexus 4, Do you know if this is a specific problem with the Nexus 4?

hummlbach

@dekkerj1 No thats no nexus 4 specific issue. (Its working fine on my nexus 4.) The versions posted here have an issue with starting the daemon fetching the mails in the background called dekkod. The file needed to start (.config/upstart/dekkod.conf) contains a version specific path (it shouldn't, will be corrected in the next days) thats why you need to execute the command:

@lakotaubp said in Dekko2 Developer Community Thread:

Then ran rm -f ~/.config/upstart/dekkod*

If you have installed on of the alphas you need to delete at least dekkos cache, since the alphas messed up the cache for some mails causing dekko to crash. You can clear the cache either by using the ut tweak tool or by executing rm -rf .cache/dekko* in the terminal. (To be sure, close dekko before doing all this. At best also stop dekkod by running stop dekkod in the terminal.)
Afterwards restart your device if you haven't stopped dekkod from terminal.
There are still some corner cases causing problems. Me for example has problems with deleting mails. @lionelb has reported hes still unable to read mail and dekkos is crashing if repeatedly tries to. But in there very most cases it seems to work fine. If you're still having problems, please report whats the problem exact. At best check whether its a known issue on
https://gitlab.com/dekkoproject/dekko/issues and report it there if its not yet.

dekkerj1

@hummlbach Thanks, that fixed it.

doniks

@flohack said in Dekko2 Developer Community Thread:

Just asking to know if we should try to get more help rushing in

@Flohack I'm thinking: one thing ubports core team could maybe do to facilitate work on dekko would be to fix packages/dependencies for amd64.

Right now the development workflow is more or less tied to testing on an armhf device. If we could sort out these errors: https://gitlab.com/dekkoproject/dekko/issues/104#note_88572323 then I think we might be able to test dekko on development machines directly which would simplify things.

Update: or maybe not. whatever the problem was in that issue 104, it doesn't hit when we do it like this https://gitlab.com/dekkan/dekko/commit/8b3aa09c7ec7b9d10b957c2d1013afe3bf737ea8 . Now ultimately that doesn't succeed either (yet?), but at least it doesn't stop at apt dependencies

A Former User

I'd like to add my thanks and congratulations to everyone who has worked on this.

dR0W

Thanks to all the developers involved in this project for the great work.
Tested on my BQ Aquaris E4.5

delijati

Hi,
tried to debug an error i had with using Dekko2. So i compiled it (after some code changes) for amd and run into the Oxide not installed error.

So to sum it up as Oxide is going to be replaced by QtWebEngine this also needs to be done for Dekko2. Or is there a plan to add a transparent layer that redirects to qtwebengine?

Here the issues i created regarding that topic:

One other question is there a repo with the source of dekko1?

doniks

Hi @delijati

Can you describe what you had to do to test on amd64? This is my attempt:
https://gitlab.com/dekkan/dekko/commit/8b3aa09c7ec7b9d10b957c2d1013afe3bf737ea8
If I remember it right, I could build it but wasn't able to run it.

Regarding oxide , yes at some point the rendering engine probably has to be replaced, but unless that becomes blocking, it has no priority at the moment.

What error with oxide do you get?

Wrt dekko1, dunno

advocatux

@delijati have you checked older branches here https://gitlab.com/dekkoproject/dekko/tree/master?

delijati

@doniks Hi i just found your branch. My changes seam to be almost the same. The error is that Oxide is missing for amd64.

[20180921 13:35:15.789 CEST [dekko.plugman.incubator] >> Comp failed:  "file:///opt/develop/privat/mobile/ubports/__dekko_build/debug/install-root/bin/plugins/ui/MainUI.qml:5 module \"com.canonical.Oxide\" is not installed\n"

I'm not sure how the plan for Oxide and amd64 looks like, is it hard to add it to the build chain for amd64, is there any plan to do it at all for xenial, bionic?

doniks

@delijati said in Dekko2 Developer Community Thread:

@doniks Hi i just found your branch. My changes seam to be almost the same. The error is that Oxide is missing for amd64.
[20180921 13:35:15.789 CEST [dekko.plugman.incubator] >> Comp failed:  "file:///opt/develop/privat/mobile/ubports/__dekko_build/debug/install-root/bin/plugins/ui/MainUI.qml:5 module \"com.canonical.Oxide\" is not installed\n"

I've checked my branch again. It's not the exact same error that I got. Maybe there is still something we can learn from each other's changes. Can you push yours somewhere?

hummlbach

Since there are popping up questions regarding email client from time to time, a short update on the state:
Actually we already had dekko 2 beta ready for upload to the openstore. But now we thinking of getting rid of oxcide first... @delijati already started working on this and has dekko 2 running prototypically without oxcide.
So expect dekko 2 to be in the openstore before/not after ota5 will be released.