Hi,

I just wrote a PDF reader based on Chromium PDF engine.

It's pretty dummy, written in 30 minutes. But quite useful (at least for me) given the limitations of Document viewer, and that sturmreader is currently broken on noble.

I think it will greatly benefit from Qt6 upgrade, when it comes, because of improvement of the engine in chromium.

It is published in the openstore:

https://github.com/pparent76/chromiumpdf

Regards,
Pierre.

Hello everyone,

I figured I would make videos about Ubuntu Touch, to contribute spreading the word.

I'm thinking about making videos to present my applications, reviews/demonstration/tests of the system in general, and possibly videos where I explain why I'm using Ubuntu Touch, and how I got to it.

Here is my first video presenting the application Maps exporter:

English version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR0eqz7wpyM
French version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOJkiSa28Ss

This is still quite experimental so if you have feedback on how to improve the videos for the next time feel free to do so!

I've succeeded in opening the keyboard when editing text in signal-desktop !!!!

I could do it reusing the work of @ChromiumOS-Guy in uWolf!

I can officially send signal messages from a native Ubuntu Touch app, without Waydroid!

Even though for now it's not convenient , since keyboard hides the text area, and the enter button of the keyboard somehow does not trigger sending the message, and the "send" button in signal is hidden until you expend the editing area. But still very usable.

For now everything is messy, but I will try to make it available soon (I think it should be possible to do a click package, but I'm not sure yet)

Ps: Note that I could do it with Mobian version only for now.

Hi,

Just wanted to share that VLC 4 (not yet released) has an interface very close to VLC for Android.

I will be a very good candidate to port to Ubuntu Touch. The interface would probably be usable as such, but with few minimal patches to the interface it could probably be near perfect on the phone screen.

I don't have time to do that now, but probably later (possibly when release officially)

Anyway after all the investigations that I've made I'm extremely confident that we'll be able to have a fully responsive client based on Signal-Desktop landed in the openstore within few month. I see exactly how to make it perfectly adapted to the phone Interface like whatsweb. (Funny enough it is possible to use a modified version of the js script of whatsweb to make the interface responsive, because the interface has an extremely similar structure. )

It's not anymore a question of "if" but a question of "when". But there are few tedious tasks in the way, and I need to go little by little, because I can't dedicate all my time to this.

Of course I'm open to any offer for help and testing!

Hi,

Just wanted to mention that I contacted the in-development French identity mobile app, to ask them for interoperability, and remind them their duty to make sure public service is available for everybody, and that their role was not to enforce the choice of mobile OS of their citizens.

https://france-identite.gouv.fr/

Surprisingly I got a pretty open and positive reply, apologizing that their app was not compatible with my OS (Ubuntu Touch), and saying they shared the goal of interoperability, and would study that with the development team what was possible. I did not expect such a positive answer, although I don't know if anything concrete will get out of this.

As a side note I wonder why for this kind of app, with a real need of interoperability, they don't use more Qt, because from what I understand Qt allows to develop apps for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux desktop, Linux mobile (Ubuntu Touch, Sailfishos, Mobian, postMarketOs, pureOs, ect...), all at once, with only few custom things to go for each platform. Any thoughts on that?

Hi,

Just wanted to mention that a nice and easy addition to Ubuntu touch would be wifi captive portal via RFC 8910 and RFC 8908.

It is actually very simple:

1- When you get a DHCP lease in the wifi interface look for option 114
2- If there is a URL in option 114 it's an API, just make a simple HTTP GET request on this URL (no parameters or header)
3- The result will be a json, if it contains "captive"="true" and has an "user-portal-url" field then we should just open this "user-portal-url" in the browser and it will allow the user to authenticate to the captive portal and use the wifi!

Really I think that's any easy addition, I may try to contribute this inside the OS when I have time.

Ps: Adding a simple script in /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ to do that should do the trick I guess.

Hi,

Today I just figured why not try:

sudo snap install signal-desktop

And I realize it just works! This is crazy. With this simple command I can link my device and see my chats. Well it is certainly not a responsive interface (but not terrible either, there's just the left menu coming in the way) and the keyboard does not show for now. But I can consult messages, and this is major.

It means:

1°) We can certainly create quite easily a version of Signal-Desktop that is adapted to mobile display (with few patches to the interface to make it responsive), and that we can get a full-fledge signal client on Ubtunu touch, that way.

2°) That Mir2.0 will certainly help with that.

Ps: I guess the first easy thing to make it usable as a consul-only stuff is adapt the scale, which I guess must be easily doable.

I've been able to recompile Signal-Desktop from source and apply my responsive script.

It is available in the Openstore alongside these other improvements:
-Fix startup from OpenStore
-Fix open url externaly
-Fix battery problem
-Fix double window problem

There still are some keyboard issues, it's probably the next thing I will work on.

Hello,

I just wanted to share that I'm not a big fan of snaps in the open-store, especially how it is currently done.

Most snap apps are not currently usable on a phone screen ( scaling problem, no OSK, no integration with contentHUB, no integration with URLdispatcher, interface designed exclusively for desktop, ect...)

I think it can be a bit confusing to list them for newcomers especially because:

• Some snap apps, that are not usable at all on a phone screen, often get higher in the search results than some apps developed specifically for Ubuntu Touch, that have multiple positive reviews, and match completely the search terms. Sometimes there really are a lot of snap apps, I think this can mislead completely a newcomer to test a bunch of non-working snap apps, instead of testing working apps developed specifically for UT.

• There is a mention of "Snap application" but this is a small text that does not allow to distinguish rapidly and visually.

Overall I think it makes things more messy and harder to find an app that works for your need. I think overall it might give to a newcomer the image of a mostly non-functional apps store.

Example:

You type "pdf" many snaps unusable on a phone are displayed before "Annotate" or "Document Viewer"
You type "Whatsapp" many snap unusable on a phone are displayed before "Whatsnew"

@DJac said:

I update my sony Xperia X with ubuntu touch 24.04-2.
But I have a problem with the "bookmarks app". They no longer works.
What I see : a blue loading bar ,then a black screen (or white if i m not in dark mod).
I found it with blablacar, but after some tests, it seems that include all " bookmarks app"

I have also a display problem with morph web browser :
nothing is displayed online, but parameters are usable.
Others browsers works normaly (merezhyvo & ufirefox)

Do anyone else have the problem with the "Boorkmark" apps problem? ( With apps based on webapp-container ). If confirmed it seems to me an important problem.

What about apps created manually with Webber?

@bunt7

Try to switch VoLTE off, and see if it works better for you or not!

But you can still use 4G/5G with VoLTE off!

@bunt7

No no, the first screenshot here:

https://docs.ubports.com/fr/latest/userguide/dailyuse/volte.html

It is possible as well that your device is not compatible with VoLTE, if so check with your operator that it is still compatible with phones that do not have VoLTE enabled.

@DJac

Merci,

Donc ça veut dire que toutes les vraies Webapps ne fonctionne plus (Signal UT et Whatsnew n'en font pas partie, c'est des apps electrons)?

Tu peux essayer aussi des apps de type "Signet" d'autres auteurs comme:

https://open-store.io/app/myutforum.josele13
https://open-store.io/app/duolingo.manuelboe
https://open-store.io/app/google-maps-unofficial.chromiumos-guy

Si c'est le cas, ça serait super de le rapporter ici, car ça parait être un gros problème:

https://forums.ubports.com/topic/12379/ubuntu-touch-24.04-2.0-call-for-testing/96

@gpatel-fr

Well yes maybe, but I also osberve that when restarting the modem the VoLTE connexion often does not re-establish properly while the Internet data connexion works fine after restarting the modem.

It also happens to me from time to time that people get directly to my answering machine, and I don't get the call. Usually I don't consider that as a big problem for myself as I can always call back. But it's true that since switching to VoLTE calls reliability has decreased.

I think it would be very useful to open a bug report here:

https://gitlab.com/groups/ubports/porting/community-ports/android10/xiaomi-poco-x3/-/work_items

@bunt7

Did you try to disable VoLTE in the setings?

(Cellular > Operator > VoLTE)

@RJDan said:

It would be good if these pledges could be 'cashed out' by you without actually turning into money just yet. I guess a lot like virtual currency. If people could donate these pledges for apps they use or projects they support. The projects/apps could then exchange this currency within the community as a way of paying for the time of developer etc.
Users can use the currency to keep tabs on the benefit they get from the community efforts ... and eventually put money to 'buy out' any pledges.
Sounds a bit like crypto .... But less cryptic.

The problem is that what a developer needs in most cases, to invest more of his time to open-source, is not another app/opensource project, but to have to eat, have a shelter, have some clothes, participate to certain social events, possibly travel, ect.... And weather we want it or not, in this world it currently requires money.

I would like a way to keep tabs on how much I 'should' pay for the effort of the developers.

I'm currently making a video to explain more the concept. In fund-my-app you should not think in terms of how much I 'should' pay for the effort of the developers. But rather you should think in terms of how much I'm willing to give if this feature is done.

Because keep in mind that even if you do a pledge of 5 euros for a feature, maybe a lot of other people will also make a pledge for this feature ( this is crowd funding ). And on top of that, the developer then is the one who will chose if the total amount is enough to motivate them to work on this feature or not.

Also different features can be in competition, and then it's a "vote with your wallet" concept, in the sense that the feature with more pledge will probably be worked on with higher priority than the feature with less pledge.

@DJac Ok dés que je pourrais mettre à jour mon appareil de test vers 24.04-2.x j'esserai de voir ce qu'il se passe. Ca m'etone, ça fonctionne bien sur 24.04-1.x

Est-ce que ce problème concerne seulement blablacar ou d'autres web apps? ( Exemple: Uber, google traduction, Airbnb, Vinted, .... )

I see that they have added Signal UT to this page!

https://ubports.com/apps

Which is nice! But the link "Check out on Openstore" points to Cinny? Any way to report it? Maybe @moem ?