@pparent My main goal would be to package signal-cli for using your UT phone as primary device. Anything else is not really in my scope.
Porting and altering an application like Signal Desktop would also add a bunch of complexity and would change the approach completely.
I read that you can now install snaps on UT, perhaps ill package my project as a snap that would make it less tied to Ubuntu Touch and would probably make development much easier.
@bunt7 So unfortunately I still don't have a functional Fairphone. It's been two months and Fairphone support has been dead silent apart from bot mails.
According to some Fairphone forum user, the support at Fairphone has basically been non-existent since January. I don't know what that tells you about the state of a company. I'm honestly quite shocked, considering their mission to make long-lasting phones.
I think I might be able to send it to Murena for Reflashing. Once I get it back, I will start development.
I wont give any ETA here, It will probably still take a few months until i can present anything usable.
Once I get my Fairphone back from repair, ill start tinkering around with it. Ill probably also need to get a cheap phone number for testing.
I dont see why it shouldnt be possible. Ill have to package Java which sucks but its probably worth it.
Hello Everyone, Im Aaron.
I used to do app development for UT during covid and helped to make apps like Gem or WaydroidHelper. Ive recently been tinkering with UT again and am interested into doing some stuff again.
I was mainly wondering whether there have been any attempts to bring signal-CLI to UT as I think it would be a great addition to the ecosystem. SailfishOS has set the example with WhisperFish. Since Axolotl is no more and Signal has no WebUI there is currently no good way to use it on UT apart from Waydoid which comes with its own drawbacks.
What are your thoughts on this?
@Kamikaze Love to hear that things are looking good for the Fairphone 5, its my current daily driver and I would love to give it a try with UbuntuTouch
@developerbayman Sorry for the late response. My site is currently down to reduce server cost (Inflation hits us all). Here is the guide: https://web.archive.org/web/20220515161326/https://aaron.place/blogs/UbPortsPython.html
@ian I am not guaranteeing anything at all and a certain risk always remains when installing Waydroid, but we think that with the new update the risk of breacking something should be significantly lower because we updated the installer after Flo made us aware of a security Issue.
Both the Installer in Helper and the Guide here in the forum were adapted accordingly.
As I said though, no guarantees!
Hi everyone, a small off-topic post today. I was wondering who of you guys use Mastodon as I am always looking for new people to follow.
@mschmids Thank you for your feedback. There currently is a pull request pending that should fix the issue with appending. The other stuff will have to wait until I find time.
@applee I think that is a great proposal
and Id love to help where I can. Why not work out a concept together with everyone that is interested and put something on paper? Maby we could organize a VideoConfrence or a thread (or both) to create a concrete Plan?
@alter Agreed! Why not take the Wikipedia approach and put a fat banner up that only disappears when the goal is reached. Sometimes you need to annoy people a bit to get them donating.
@john-silver I think cofunding is not really an option considering that the monetary resources of the foundation are also quiet limited. Either way I agree, that not everything has to be free of charge. Implementing something like paid apps is pretty hard to implement on UT at the moment I guess.
@beli3ver Oh wow... I had no Idea that Uadblock requires such effort to keep running. I will make sure to donate some money later today and encourage others to do the same, even if you decide to take it down to atleast compansate a fraction of the cost that this resulted in for you.
@ra Webber is great if you rely on certain webapps. Creating webapps for the open store can make sense in some cases but you should be just fine with webber for most things. You can actually share a website from morph to webber to create a webapp.
@josele13 just to add to this, if you cant donate or dont want to for whatever reason, there are many other ways to contribute to UT. Including testing, translating and so on.
Here is an interesting thread on how to help: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/6991/how-can-i-help
@arubislander Thats actually an interristing thought. I wonder what it would take.
@doniks said in The future of the UbuntuTouch Q&A:
Good question. I would hope that some form of regular live news/Q&A show could be maintained.
Just my two cents: I think biweekly is too much. It becomes a big workload for the ppl doing it.
I definetly agree, once a month is probably enough. I think it is also a great opportunity to rethink the QA and maby put it in a more open context, maby similar to the Volla Community meetings. They invite people to public jitsi calls and allow questions from listiners through this meeting. This sometimes results in great discussions. I believe a format like this could defintly benefit from longer pauses.
Hello everyone,
you may have heard that Dalton stepped back from his contract at the UbPorts fundation(more). With him leaving, the future of the Ubuntu Touch Q&A becomes uncertain. The Q&A has been part of community developement and information for 4 years now and I think it would be a bummer if it got lost, as it always was a great way to get an overview about what is happening in the foundation, developement and what is important at the moment.
Lets get to the point :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:, I would love to learn more about how the Q&A was organized in the past, who decides what the future will look like and how we as the community or I as a single person can help to preserve the Q&A. I would also love to start a general discussion about the Q&A and what its future schould look like.
ps. I wish Dalton all the best for his future 