@Sander said in Add "Tab" key to Ubuntu Touch keyboard?:

You can tap anywhere on the terminal area to mimick the behavior of the tab key

thanks for this hidden gem ! TIL

Here are the videos recorded about mobile:

https://video.fosdem.org/2026/ub4132/

UT is mentioned in the videos about state of Foss on mobile and the one about the apps store: the UT one is rather well placed, however Flatpak is coming for mobile and it has already a dominant position in general Linux apps.

The video about openHarmony is intriguing given the resources of the organisations behind it.

I have been interested by the one about push notifications, apparently more ready for prime time that I was thinking. It seems that the only real solution for Linux clients is the kde one, that would seem a good fit for UT since it uses QT.

@shano said in Why is Wayland compositor and Lomiri so far in terms of functionality compared to Compiz and Unity7 released some 20 years ago?:

Compiz was released in 2006 and is still maintained. Unity7 was released in 2010 and is still maintained. My question is why Wayland and Lomiri are so far away in terms of functionality, plugins etc. compared to tech made 20 years ago.

Are we building on top or reinventing the wheel?

From what I see, Lomiri is not reinventing Unity 8, it is Unity 8.
I downloaded the Lomiri source code and counted roughly 18000 commits between 2013 and 2017 (end of Ubuntu involvement) and 1400 commits between 2018 and 2025. The main reason is probably that Unity was a business project with serious resources behind it, while Lomiri (the new name for Unity 8 since 2020) is an open source project with a few part time volunteers. Also, it may be that there was so much work in Unity that there is not a lot of new development necessary, the bulk of new work being in other parts of the full (and huge) smart phone stack. I did not count but I think that a large part of these 1400 commits are just translations.

I don't know Compiz but I tracked the project in its last hideout on Gitlab and counted about 30 commits in last 5 years, 20 of them in 2020. It's maintained in the most limited sense, there is almost no development.

Duh ! I will close this stoopid post, I had not used seriously a smartphone since several years and did not realize anymore how sensitive to location Gps services are. I tried only in 2 places in my home and both where unsuitable. When I got out in the air, Gps started to work. So it is working, really. I did a stroll this morning and it updated its position. I have still to get my hands to another brand of smartphone on Android to compare with the Fairphone 5 under UT to see how well it is working.

@poVoq

hello, not the dev here - but the links are not broken for me. The app is supposed to be based on

https://github.com/luigi311/ConverseJS-ubports

the links are a bit strange though (why not a software forge ? if the author don't like Github, there are other such as codeberg...). It's not stated in the original repo that the author has given up. Personally I'd not use this software without more information.

@GooglyBear said in GPS don't seem to work on FP5 UT 24.04 stable:

a GitLab issue to follow progress for Fairphone 5

AGPS is not really linked to a specific port (even if it can work on some devices it seems, but it's mostly unintended). It's tracked here

@Averiz

Congrats ! this is a great idea !

I tested it on my FP5 (24.04-1.1 stable) and it installed and restored the system keyboard. Needed to restart the phone but that's not important. Tested it with the terminal and a few browsers.

Good points:

1. I find it more pleasing to the eye that the system one.
2. It worked as well with alternate browsers (uWolf, Min) who have special methods to handle the keyboard.
3. with the terminal it does not interfer with the special input methods (double clic on the screen, special area

Minor points:

1. opening Min (an alternate browser) and Morph both with a blank initial screen, entering 'https:' and clicking on the blank screen generated a mad flickering of the keyboard and a Js error in the browser code (I took a screenshot but for some reason it's unreadable).

2. when setting / unsetting it as system keyboard there is some delay after clicking the button with no apparent feedback.

3. I (and I think most people) expected it to respect the system preferences for the language, nope, it's necessary to setup the keyboard in its own config screen. Yes, it's actually a high expection This config screen is not totally obvious by the way. I managed after a few mistakes to select the French Azerty as the default and it displayed finally - in Qwerty . I clicked on the 'AZ' key and it was Azerty finally.

4. after restoring the system OSK I set it again as the default, and I got back the qwerty with the french Azerty left selected, and this time clicking on AZ did not change the disposition, it stayed Qwerty.

5. still with the French Azerty, the text 'Keyboard - French - French (AZER) spills over the key ',' at the left (see screenshot)

@Kadafi

you don't. This is a known way to brick your phone.

@Averiz

even with Min, it seems to happen only if prediction is turned off in fcitx-ub configuration.

@Kadafi

cursor keys:

option 1: use the hamburger menu and select scr, then scroll to the right you'll find arrows
option 2: touch the screen, press and move gently your finger right/left

@lsitongia

not sure what you are searching for, if you are under 24.04-2.0 morph is using qt6.
Try

which morph-browser

should return /usr/bin/morph-browser

then

ldd /usr/bin/morph-browser  | grep -i libqt

should return a bunch of linkings to qt6 libraries.

@Keneda said:

sandwich

bandwidth I guess

@Keneda

Yes the blog post was addressing the limited case of web applications, not the general case of internal apps that the initial post of this thread was referring to.

@lduboeuf said:

on 24.04.2 and 26.04 obexd is now auto started

I think it was backported to stable.

@PhAndersson said:

f I register the BT SharePlugin for all file types, it no longer appears for any file type.

you said in the GH issue (sorry for posting it here, I'm too lazy to login to the MS thingy):
' For files with unrecognized extensions (which map to ContentType.Unknown) '

it's possible to add to the file viewer new relationships between extension and contenttype, see this MR

Don't know if this quite fits your problem, but it never hurts to spread information

@messayisto

did you uninstall the Morph QT6 app ?

@Luksus

I think that from your 24.04-1.3 version you still have Morph-QT6 installed as an app from the store. You need to zap it (maybe restart the phone after that)

@pparent

I did not succeed.
Anyway I think now that the qmlscene system executable available in 26.04 is for QT5.

Your version prints a warning that it is deprecated, the system one don't display it so I guess it's an older version hence for QT5.

@Keneda said:

and web applications significantly

web applications and apps are 2 different things I'd guess.

For fun I tried to replace in the launcher.sh for the piano app of @pparent the qmlscene6 (provided by the app, qt6 is packaged into the app) by the system one and it failed miserably so at the moment I think that QT6 is not available for apps, at least not in a straightforward way)

@Luksus

Well, I'm using 26.04 build 101 with the same hardware and I would have expected to get about the same results but I don't.

'does not launch (or crashs?), when not already opened and triggert by clicking a link in e.g. an email'

-> I'm not sure what you mean by that (in fact I am sure I do NOT understand what you meant in your first point...) but clicking a link in a Dekko message works for me.

'camera video recording gets no access to "device", recording fails'
-> works for me

' local playback of previously recorded videos, teleport videos, etc. do not work'
-> playing a video from the Files manager works for me

' "breaks" in landscape mode
random gap in indicators
clock half-hidden by rounded corner
after rotating back to portrait -> broken there too'
-> confirmed: clock partially (not 'half', only the last digit out of 4) hidden by rounded corner in landscape mode. The rest works for me (no gaps in indicators in landscape mode, after rotating back to portrait, nothing is broken)