Ubuntu Touch Q&A 120 This Saturday 30th July At 19:00 UTC

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Ubuntu Touch Q&A 120 is this Saturday 30th July at 19:00 UTC. There will be the Ubuntu Touch updates and developments from the last few weeks. We are sure you will have questions and Forum questions will get priority so post them here before the event or during the live show using Youtube Livechat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyLtqadrpSY and Telegram

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

domubpkm

Why OTA-24 appears in 'beta' projects and not in 'classics' projects ?

Edited July 30 : I note you removed the word 'Beta' without the project joining the normal progression of 'Classic' projects.

MrT10001

There are 81 devices on the device list (kudos to all that port). However a lot of devices are not fully functional as phones due to no sound, no text, Wi-Fi intermittent etc. Surely to make them as feasible devices they should have core functions that work or be removed from the installer until these functions work.

Reading through the UBports documentation it is not always clear how to go about things and maybe what background knowledge you should have. I know from writing myself how difficult this can be, but I find myself using the documentation and flitting between it and other forums (mainly XDA-developers). Maybe the documentation could be clearer (and again I understand this is not an easy task) and include a better troubleshooting guide (i.e. use forum posts for solutions on certain situations).

Moem

@mrt10001 said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 120 This Saturday 30th July At 19:00 UTC:

Maybe the documentation could be clearer

Of course it could! And I'm sure your help would be appreciated.

MrT10001

@moem I definitely would, but I have too many other commitments (always a but) at this moment in time. I need also to get more competent on the CLI.

Josué

@ubportsnews

I've got a question about camera applications but it isn't simple to explain so here we go:

AFAIK camera applications are pretty complex when to work. There is a mix to take a good photo between a good sensor and a good postprocessing image. There is a lot of work to make a good postprocessing image and I don't know if we've got the resources to make such thing to improve camera app so here is my question:

Doesn't would be better if we try to port megapixels app than keep using our camera application? I mean, maybe if would be better for linux community if we heep to improve this kind of application which is transversal to the users of several linux distributions than have each distribution our own app.

A good example of this is waydroid which is transversal to several distributions and is reaching a good state of use...

Thanks for all your hard work.

cliffcoggin

How has Dalston's departure from the team affected the rate of development? In particular, has it slowed down the change from Ubuntu 16 base? My impression is that progress has slowed, and for a team that was already lacking in personnel that is a serious problem.

thousandtopics

Hi It's me again, maybe late, but hopefully read

Can we have a guide to remove all waydroid and install it completely with gapps?!

Getting isolated by the concrete jungle or the empty roads at night in the city for not having uber, moovit only works just in the android version now or can't use the bank app is so frustratng!! I know it's against privacy, but seriously helps a little bit in our normal day haha.

Can we have image backgrounds in teleports?!
Kind of selfish if you ask me, but it is so nice having sort of a theme like the desktop or android version of Telegram.

A guide of how port gtk apps, please!
there are so many phosh/gtk4 that can make us our life easier Dino/fractal, Tubefeeder, Headlines, lollypop . . . These are mobile/desktop apps. Simple apps, the code might not that big . . . Porting them shouldn't be a nightmare, right? RIGHT?!

On screen buttons for some apps and games. I mean, keyboard is nice, but if we just can grab some keys and add our own keystrokes. I know it's kind of weird but, since there are some apps with tiny buttons like in libertine. Imagine that someone ported duckstation . . maybe the keyboard can have a joypad layout . . who knows
I don't know how to complicated this would be, but this would be neat

thousandtopics

@domubpkm because it might be not ready yet? With classic you mean stable branch, right?

thousandtopics

@cliffcoggin I think it goes at a good speed. Maybe they need a host that can invite the rest of the core team every two weeks. That's why I think that it seems slow the progress. What they actually need is more money to hire more people, donations or money laundry might help; however, I think they want to keep it legal, so, the good ways of getting income is the way they want.

Cryto, NFTs, or artwork of furries sells, but keep the donations going and this will work for sure.

thousandtopics

@mrt10001 if you do documentation, that would be great . . . Anyway, I have to tell you. I don't read a lot. I just go straight to the key words to find the solution if there is one.

Two recommendations.

Don't write a lot
Tags for lazy people like me.
Cheer up, any help is welcome.

Moem

@thousandtopics All of these seem to be requests, not questions. I think the Q&A is meant for asking about things that you want to know, not for asking for things that you want to have.

thousandtopics

@moem that is true, those statements were just in the bottom of my soul. I had to take them out. I understand if they don't read any of those in the Q&A because those aren't even questions, these are even kind of late, so I don't expect anything haha, but the damage is done ( runs away in ninja mode)

Keneda

@mrt10001 said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 120 This Saturday 30th July At 19:00 UTC:

Surely to make them as feasible devices they should have core functions that work or be removed from the installer until these functions work.

Not sure that some of those devices are even supported by installer, such as Zenphone 2 wich porter has only one post here from Dec 19...

psingh

Hi, I'm new to this community and was surprised to see Ubuntu Touch continuing as a community project, which is great to see by the way so keep up the great work.

I recall though how when Canonical maintained the OS they had a "pages" feature i believe it was called. So they had a page for "People", "Videos" and perhaps for other things like media, music, social media, messages, etc. I may be wrong but I've noticed this is no longer the case on the current distribution. Is there a reason this "pages" feature was no longer maintained by the community in favour of the usual app grid system?

I for one am sad to see this pages features go as it allowed a different way for the user to interact with their apps and their phone, very different from the other two popular touch based OS's, something which caught my attention back when Canonical first revealed Ubuntu Touch. A different way of interacting brings a different and unique experience and may help Ubuntu Touch to stand out from the likes of Android and iOS.

psingh

Is there a way I can try out Ubuntu Touch on my laptop/computer via a virtual machine or some other way just to get a feel of it before installing it on a device?

Keneda

@psingh said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 120 This Saturday 30th July At 19:00 UTC:

I recall though how when Canonical maintained the OS they had a "pages" feature i believe it was called. So they had a page for "People",

Those were the scopes and ubports team dropped it because of various reasons.

ixsvf

@ubportsnews Hi, the move into focal base is one of the biggest step forward that the project is making. It’s a huge achievement! In your opinion, the addition of a device to the UBports Installer should met requirements like: proven to be stable; highest score of compatibility with UT; porter motivation. The move to 20.04 is an opportunity to introduce this type of change or others?

Thank you!

alan_g

@psingh said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 120 This Saturday 30th July At 19:00 UTC:

I recall though how when Canonical maintained the OS they had a "pages" feature

I think this was called "scopes".

Lakotaubp

@psingh The scopes discussion went on for some time, see here https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1743/scopes-on-the-16-04 for an overview.
If you use the Forum Search function you will find many more. Too sum up Scopes are gone.