Ubuntu Touch Q&A 84 This Saturday At 19:00 UTC

UBportsNews · 7 Sept 2020, 16:50

Ubuntu Touch Q&A 84 is this Saturday the 12th of September at 19:00 UTC. Please come along and join us for Ubuntu Touch development, updates and answers to your questions! Forum questions get priority so post them here before the event or Youtube Livechat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMKXZQGSUJc and Telegram during the live show.

Please remember that questions on porting to device **** or it's status, and questions on bugs will not be answered

fakone · 7 Sept 2020, 17:03

Hi all guys!

Any news about Godot and Ubports?
When Is possible use it for make app for Ubports?
Thats for all your work!

Alter · 7 Sept 2020, 20:39

Hello everyone, on the previous Q&A there was a question which left me puzzled, it was about possible future inclusion of a firewall. From what I understood reading https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blogs-news-1/post/terminal-chapter-2-3078 there is already a firewall in Ubuntu Touch, which you can turn on in Terminal. This is something I did, without adding specific rules. Why wasn't there any mention of this?
Also, you told introduction of a firewall could be messy because the OS uses older kernels.
What do you mean by that?
Is it better not to enable the firewall?
The possibility is mentioned in https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blogs-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-safety-architecture-25

GizmoChicken · 9 Sept 2020, 01:12

Any more news to share regarding Lomiri on Manjaro for the PinePhone?

Edit: More images here.

rocket2nfinity · 9 Oct 2020, 17:54

Will webapp push notifications come with the new QT update?

How about Redshift?, videochat?

ubuntoutou · 8 Sept 2020, 22:42

May I ask what the plane box on Florian's shelves is?

ThePossessor · 9 Sept 2020, 19:56

I am curious: what happened to librem 5 UBports port?

While quite some months ago we saw quick progress, at some point for some reason it was more or less "wiped" from UBports site. What's the story behind this?

Purism recently claimed that hardware will be shipped "late November 2020". Will there still be a port available?

GizmoChicken · 10 Sept 2020, 02:00

Would you please talk a bit about utqemu? And is any documentation available for it?

ubuntoutou · 9 Oct 2020, 19:38

Why was Chromium chosen as a basis for the Morph browser instead of Firefox? Would it have been easier to install add-ons like NoScript and Badger with Firefox? What about Firefox Focus (aka Firefox Klar in Germany)?

ubuntoutou · 9 Oct 2020, 17:39

@ThePossessor said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 84 This Saturday At 19:00 UTC:

I am curious: what happened to librem 5 UBports port?

While quite some months ago we saw quick progress, at some point for some reason it was more or less "wiped" from UBports site. What's the story behind this?

Purism recently claimed that hardware will be shipped "late November 2020". Will there still be a port available?

Could it be because someone noticed that if you remove just one letter from "Purism", you get PRISM !?

AppLee · 10 Sept 2020, 17:42

@ubuntoutou
???

Morph is based on QtWebEngine which is based on Chromium.
Using Gecko (Firefox's engine) requires a huge load of pain and trouble.

Giiba · 10 Sept 2020, 18:00

@ubuntoutou I think the best way to get Firefox on the growing linux-on-phones ecosystem would be to convince Mozilla they should. As far as I know, there has never been a QML front built for Firefox.

andybleaden · 12 Sept 2020, 06:34

There was a suggestion previously to do a feature QA on Pinephone. This could be a really good idea including tips, issues and ideas and would be great also for other officially supported devices -Pinetab FP2, OPO etc....

Could this be a regular feature perhaps with input from a regular volunteer user who runs Device X?

Aury88 · 9 Dec 2020, 07:56

Q1: why Sphinx was choosed for our documentation instead of (e.g.) mediawiki? what are its advantages over using a (e.g.) wiki?

Neo · 12 Sept 2020, 11:36

How am I supposed to build Ubuntu touch when all the tutorials are outdated?

Lakotaubp · 12 Sept 2020, 11:42

@Neo Just a quick point to help with getting your question answered. Can you be more specific. Is it the porting info http://docs.halium.org/en/latest/porting/first-steps.html or https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/introduction.html that is at issue, or something else. What device to you want to build for etc. if you can give as much info as you can it all helps. Thanks

DaveNotHere · 12 Sept 2020, 11:53

@UBportsNews Hey there guys. Big time fan of all things Linux. Been a Linux user for Decades and just discovered Ubuntu Touch Cellphone. I'm very new to cellphones. As a matter a fact. This Ubuntu Touch is my very first cellphone and so far I'm liking it, but only if I can get the WIFi working on it. That's whole another topic there. So I won't digress. So on to my question.

My question is how can I to Set Up Remote Desktop on my Ubuntu desktop and Ubuntu Touch cellphone?

I want to use the cellphone to remotely control my Ubuntu desktop machine when I'm out about.

Thanks again and can't wait to hear from you.

Dave

ThePossessor · 13 Sept 2020, 00:13

For those interested in the question: I guess since there was no statement in this Q&A or even here from the developers, the status quo must still be the same as last mentioned in Oct 2019. Here is the links:

October 2019 Status of Ubuntu Touch on Librem 5 Smartphone
Or a bit older:
Ubuntu Touch Q&A 60 - October 2019

If there really is no newer info than this, then it essentially all is a sad story in more than one way.

AppLee · 13 Sept 2020, 08:02

@ThePossessor
IIRC and as far as I know UBports is waiting for a device in order to go further with the port.
But I'm not an insider and my memory can be tricky sometimes

3T_Ed · 13 Sept 2020, 08:27

@ThePossessor

Here's some food for thought
https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/advantages-of-phosh/