Posts made by Bramble

I'll second that...

A "Search your computer" function like Unity7 had would be a valuable feature... especially as things often seem to get put in nether regions.

Not a top priority though.

I'd been thinking (since the logo on the back of the PinePhone) that the Bootlogo for UT might be simplified to just a monochome 3D Yumi head... i.e. UT is big enough now not to need "UT for N5", or whatever: it can stand on its own.

@Rondarius
Yes! I watched in some horror as a friend of mine took the back off his... I'm not at all keen to do that - I'll take it into one of those phone repair shop places. They can have that stress!

Thanks, @Lakotaubp

@Alter said in Is my N5's battery giving up after 7 years...:

@Bramble Just wondered if switching channel to stable improved battery life for you?

Thank you for the concern. Sadly, changing channels did not solve the issue: A new battery it's going to have to be.

@AppLee
Ah okay - a page refresh sorted that. Thank you.

@AppLee
Thank you. That's very kind.

@AppLee
Thank you.

@UniSuperBox
Yumi's disappeared from the browser tab... Perhaps a design decision?

It was good to see an update of the Calendar app this morning: I've often thought that the flipside to a calendar app - using the same resources - is a ToDo list... Perhaps the maintainer might consider adding that functionality. (They could perhaps take inspiration from nitrotsks)

... or does there need to be some power management tweaks?

The battery indicter ticks down visibly when using UT now - even when the phone's plugged in... Making it somewhat unusable as mobile device.

N5 Dev channel.

And if it's a new battery that I need, I remember someone saying that there's more than one option - so which is the best one to get? TIA.

@AppLee
Nevertheless, he's right: some apps are only relevent for the phone. All unnecessary apps ought to be removable*. My bug-bear is the external storage app on the N5.

This isn't just a phone os.

And Go away and use Android ought never to be the response of someone who takes a moderator role on this board.

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I know that the real reason is that the apps were baked in.

@AppLee
With respect... Ubuntu Touch was touted as the OS suitable for all use-cases: that was the whole point of convergence.

I wonder if, slowly, measure by measure, we're losing parts of the original vision.

I think Demo Browser had some interesting UI features.

There's been an update today, and I'm pleased to report that this very useful app is working again!

Thanks, Tim.

@GizmoChicken

I can't say that I know enough about it to make a constructive comment, really. But that never stops anybody, so...

Someone will no doubt say I'm wrong, but UT is run on relatively low-spec devices for which x-org apps are unsuitable; so the packaging of apps has been an academic question.

Looking online, there are advocates for all the Linux packaging systems. Yet they all seem to be the same thing: Boxes within boxes!

IF .click is the most suitable to use within the UT framework*, then either it needs to be made really easy to package to .click, or some resources will need to be spent converting apps to .click format.

I guess the trend we're seeing for a UT 'flavour' over an Arch, Debian etc base is the desire to have both the UT UI and x-org apps. It would be preferable, immho, if it was proper UT though.

• As I understand it(!) click packages are a cut down version of snap. UT already has quite a lot of sandboxing, so perhaps .click provides all that is needed. Idk. If .deb / apt were used, would there be more take up of UT? Would a UT desktop come any faster??

@augustblake
It's been my daily driver since 2017. Nexus5. Dev.

Xournal would be good to have... though it could do with a handwriting to text function.

And a speech recognition app. Dragon Dictation is the proprietary one, but I'm sure there must be OpenSource equivalents.

@domubpkm
Hmmm This version of Webber seems to fail at installing the app stage.