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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.
I really think that ideally there should be two distinct permissions for the apps:
Foreground Microphone: The app can only access the microphone when it is foreground, that would be sufficient for most apps.
Background Microphone: That would be usefull for only a small minority of very trusted apps , like phone apps that may need to maintain a call while the phone is suspended.
But it's very different to give the opportunity to spy on the microphone at any moment which is a critical permission, and to allow the app to use the microphone while on foreground which is what most app would need and is way less critical.
Min Broeser is crashing after it st
This is normal I will realease very soon (possibly tomorow) a new version that will not crash with 24.04-2.x, this is another bug that I can and will fix easily, that should currently only impact Min and Rocket.Chat .
The real problem is the OSK, I guess if it does not work with uWolf, it is the same with Signal UT or Whatsnew
Thank's
@pparent have you reported the issue anywhere? Not sure if anyone worked on that. Did this testing result in >any logs or anything that could point us to a cause? Are these apps still using my immodules.cache hack from >back in xenial?
I did not open an issue, because I did not have the time to really dig. But some users did report me the issue about my apps.
But I remember we discussed with @gpatel-fr about this issue on this forum, and I think he had an hypothesis about a commit that might have provoked it, but I did not have the time to dig. I will try to find again this topic!
Are these apps still using my immodules.cache hack from back in xenial?
Possibly yes. My apps are indeed using a immodules.cache file in GTK_IM_MODULE_FILE to point to the maliit-inputcontext-gtk library path form the app. Its probable that the other apps from other authors do the same.
Edit:
this could be linked to this change:
if it is, you may find warnings such as 'Application attempted to activate itself without focus' in the journal.
If anyone can report the current status of the app on 24.04-2.x, it would help, as I currently don't have a testing device compatible with it!
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/12379/ubuntu-touch-24.04-2.0-call-for-testing/10
Thank's! 
Unfortunately I cannot really test now because my testing device is Oneplus Nord N10 5G, and I can't risk my daily driver at the moment.
My concern is about XWayland apps, is there still the problem of OSK not showing up on these apps ? (uWolf, uFirefox, Chromium for UT, Signal UT, Whatsnew, Min Browser, Rocket.chat)? I say that because I could test previous revisions of 24.04-2.x on my device and those app could not access the OSK anymore. Other people reported the same.
Can any one report the current status of these apps? Has it improved or is it still the same?
( I feel it would be a shame to loose usage of these apps with upgrade to 24.04-2.x, they are currently indispensable to my personal daily usage on my volaphone 22 ).
Thank you!
Sorry for the aside, but what is the status for using Signal from a desktop app (without having a phone number) ?
Well I guess it will probably be a reality one day, but for now we have to be patient, as no official release has been made about if and when a standalone desktop version (Without needing Android or iOS) will be available.
Also from my understanding it would not be without needing a phone number. I think you will still need to receive a code by SMS. Just that you won't need to install Signal on an Android/iOS smartphone, and you will be able to directly make the installation process (that requires SMS authentication) on your desktop (or in this case on you Ubuntu Touch).
It seems Signal-Desktop will support linux-arm64 officially in upcoming releases!
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/8e1728ff634734a5e30fd314ab4c246434f0aa2e
Which is a nice to have! (That does not exclude the need to patch the code for use on UT )
Note that in 24.04-1.2 dev, the problem is exactly the same on volla 22. And my perception is that the problem is magnified
Do you mean in 24-04-2.x?
Now I'm that I'm running the script it's much better for me. But I still observe the following:
-Sometimes the connexion is abnormally slow, I'm not sure if it comes from the operator, the coverage or the phone. Now the priority is maybe given to 5G...
-LTE does not reconnect properly most of the time after a connexion loss.
Another solution if you need 24.04-2 but not the last version could be to try to install a previous version less bulky. Unfortunately I have no quick idea to do that either.
I just wanted to try to investigate the problem of OSK with XWayland apps on 24.04-2.x, and check whether the problem is still present.
Well it does not matter, I will try again later.
I don't know much about all this, so excuse me if I say stuff that doesn't make sense but could it be that 24.04 2.x has moved on with packaging Morph Qt 6 stuff, and the root partition isn't big enough on Oneplus N10? I believe its not on the list of devices that will get 24.04 2.0 (stable), at least for now, until somebody can figure out enlarging the partition.
Yes if it is not on the least, then it is probably that, I did not know about that.
Because installation of 24.04-1.x works fine, with the same process!
Hello,
I have a Oneplus Nord N10 5G (Billie) that @messayisto gave me.
It initially had 24.04-2.x, but I had to install 24.04-1.x to make some tests, and I cannot install 24.04-2.x again. I always get this errer message when installing.Any advice?
