Are you planning to add full device encryption on devices that can handle it with UT?
Encryption is important for privacy issues, but i think you know that already :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

The answer given in Q&A when I asked a year or more (maybe two) ago was essentially "yes, eventually, but after all the other major efforts are out of the way."

In terms of those major efforts, a few of those have been crossed off the list since (Xenial, lomiri), but a number remain (Halium, Focal, Anbox, etc.), as well as others no doubt.

In recognition that the everyone has different priorities but those doing the actual development get to decide which come first, I've not inquired further, because I am not in a good position to contribute to a feature like this, and the developers are working wonders between each OTA. The OS is worlds beyond what it was when I first encountered it.

There is a method you can find elsewhere in this forum by which you can mount an encrypted block file over your home directory, which you may find better than nothing, but don't try it unless you really understand what it is doing and what it is and is not doing to secure your data.

@Opolork lanux_mage
Here's his twitter: https://twitter.com/lanux_mage

Thanks, Loops. :thumbs_up_light_skin_tone:

1. As far as I understand, Plasma Mobile and Ubuntu Touch are making some efforts to make the same Qt apps run effortlessly on both platforms. Is it likely that the same app store (OpenStore, I assume) would be a default feature on both platforms?
2. The Gnome world seems to have a completely different take on the issue, with GTK4 apps developed with an adaptable interface using libhandy being seen as the way of the future. Will software developed in this manner (like future releases of Geary or Gnome Maps) be easily available on UT, possibly even in the OpenStore? And should it be expected to run about as well on Ubuntu Touch as, say, PostmarketOS?

Guess I'm just worried about fragmentation.

1 - How would it be possible to lower the minimum screen brightness?

2 - Would it be possible to have a full-screen function like the F11 function there is on Ubuntu Desktop? This would allow to display more lines to read on the web browser by hiding the web page address at the top of the screen. This would be particularly handsome in landscape mode.

@libremax
The cost of an employee for a corporation is not the same as its salary.

I am well aware of that and in France 50 K€ for employer is equivalent to 25 K€ for the employee (32 K€ gross income) and may be sufficient depending on place of residence.

But that's not the point. My point was what a person considers "a very large donation" is not quite the same when you're a foundation like UBports.

It's not "a very large donation" but if used to pay an indian developer for 5 years, it could be more usefull than 6 months for an USA developer.

But that's not the point. My point was what a person considers "a very large donation" is not quite the same when you're a foundation like UBports.

With roughly 5K Pinephone CE sold the donation will be around 50K$ which is not enough to hire a junior software developer for a year.

It depends on the country.
In France, it's enough to hire 1 junior software developer for a year,
in Portugal 2,5 and in India 7

But it's still substancial and might help a lot.

There was some chitter chatter on Telegram about the current top bar/indicators area and how it is perhaps not the best thing on mobile devices. What do you envisage for the top bar/indicators as and when the time comes for it to be improved? Something like we see on Android?

Thanks. Keep up the great work:person_juggling_light_skin_tone: