Ubuntu Touch Q&A 111 Saturday 23rd Oct At 19:00 UTC

TotalSonic · 21 Oct 2021, 23:34

Us users tend to fill up these Q&A's with feature requests for things we would most like to see developed sooner than later - but what things would the UBports team like to see added to UT by their fellow devs and the community first??

Best regards,
Steve Berson

stanwood · 21 Oct 2021, 23:47

I've noticed that nearly half of the compatible devices are marked as "inactive" in the porting section. (including Pinephone, Sony Xperia X performance, Xiaomi Redmi Note 7, Nexus 5, etc...).

Will it be a challenge for you to keep those devices in the future OTA cycles with "forever" missing features and no more maintainers?

Did you already list the devices that won't be able to upgrade to 20.04?

Thank you very much for everything you accomplish!!
Regards,

Steve

ixsvf · 23 Oct 2021, 07:56

Hi, its possible to have the cameraApp accessible (for quick photo video capture) without the need to type lockscreen pin first in the future or is something the platform can't do, technically speaking ?

Thank you!

ixsvf · 23 Oct 2021, 12:35

In september 2020 Marius wrote a post in this forum talking about the roadmap.

Now, one year later will he update it or write a new one?

mateo_salta · 23 Oct 2021, 12:42

@opaijavai yes technically possible - but would need some code changes for it to be a feature to be incorporated.

the immediate user convenience is nice and a feature we want, open drawer - tap camera - take picture

for a app to be launched without password, we would want the option for it to be enabled/disabled by the user
The camera app also allows access to viewing pictures and deleting pictures - for this app to be launched without password it would have to be a some kind of 'take pictures only' mode

All this code would need to be created, although not impossible - and not without an example - just look at the 'Emergency calls' feature - it opens the dialer - but in a mode that only has basic call functionality.

mateo_salta · 23 Oct 2021, 13:32

App Roundup:

LightP Word Processor by Nicolas Colla: a html5 word processor with some rich text features, and a touch friendly design.

Onion Surf also from Nicolas Colla: a fork of morph that aims to enable tor and update with tor releases. Check it out as help is wanted in fixing ip leaks and identifiers.

Transmission Remote: A Transmission torrent remote client - add and check status of torrents remotely.

TotalSonic · 23 Oct 2021, 15:19

@mateo_salta - also Gem Fork by Aaron Hafer - an update to the Gem browser allowing online access to the Gemini and Gopher protocols.

MultiMaps by Andreas Johannsen - a webapp that allows viewing maps from Google, Apple, Yandek, Esri, OSM, and Mapbox all from a single instance.

heyspencerb · 23 Oct 2021, 19:08

Why is 20.04 a higher priority than VoLTE? 16.04 runs great on the OS side, but without VoLTE many phones will soon stop functioning. What does 20.04 add that is not just nice to have features?

stanwood · 24 Oct 2021, 18:55

@heyspencerb I think 20.04 is a P1 task since 16.04 is not maintained anymore, that means no security patches in the future.
20.04 will also be the new repository base to build everything new on (Wayland, Systemd, VoLTE / VoWiFi, screen cast, etc...)

AppLee · 24 Oct 2021, 20:45

@heyspencerb
Yes, as Stanwood said the work made for VoLTE is better used on 20.04 so the job is done only once.
20.04 is more recent hence a much sturdier base to build something.
This will also help for a better bluetooth support especially BLE IIRC.

Basically all the work done for 16.04 is time lost for 20.04.
Maintaining 16.04 is a necessary evil until 20.04 is ready but in order to get a better use of resources 20.04 has to make it out.

I don't think your question made it to the show so I tried to give an answer here.
Please don't answer here and open a new thread if you want to continue the discussion.
Or you'll be able to ask it again in a couple of week.