@purplevvay Hi, your designs look great!
The icons look awesome, the only thing I would keep as full text is the emergency text, because it would be more visible. Also the arrow at the bottom is inverted, in the system apps ( contacts, weather, calculator... ) the arrow is oriented the other way.

Sure also the mobile landscape mode should be designed. I've put the user icon on the left of the username in my designs to fit also this need. Otherwise the keyboard might overlap the login field. Making it look the same on all screen sizes would be better for convergence. On my phone the space available is less than half of the screen height (other phones with different screen ratio might have less space).

I don't understand the function of the keyboard icon. Can't I just tap on the input field to open keyboard and swipe down to hide it?

My idea for the back button is to use a left to right swipe to go back. I've thought the login as a succession of screen displaying all users and quick app access. Swiping left/right would allow you to switch screens.

@mateo_salta said in Login screen/Code input Design:

so, interesting, if we get rid of the box background completely, error text is not really visible. It is looking good replacing the text with white to match. here are screens, one no background, one with .3 opacity

Maybe we can change the way we display errors:

@Kaizen Hi,
thank you, great pages.
Just some notes for the devices page:

1. We have an official device checklist for working features at: https://gitlab.com/ubports/community-ports/general/-/blob/master/DeviceChecklist.md
2. The installer and the preparatory steps sections could be merged in a how to install, which would be easier to read.
3. If a user gets stuck while installing, it could be useful to have links to the forum, telegram channel and/or matrix channel.
   I've made some changes to the page you've shared:
   
   (My first mock-up)

Hi,
this is an experiment I've done with Ubuntu Touch and I would like to share. If someone needs a microphone for conferencing during the pandemic but doesn't have one, here is how to use your Ubuntu Touch phone as a microphone for your pc.

Things you need:

1. Your Ubuntu Touch phone
2. A jack to jack audio cable

Step by step:

1. Plug the cable into the microphone port of your pc and in the jack port of your phone.
   Check that you've done the step 1 before going to step 2.
   Check in the sound panel that headphones are plugged.
2. Run the following command in the terminal:
   pactl load-module module-loopback
3. Note the number in the output, you'll need it to stop microphone sharing.
4. Enable silent mode to prevent notifications from going into the microphone.

To stop sharing microphone:

1. Run the following in the terminal replacing number_to_replace with the number you have noted before. Do not unplug the cable before running the command.
   pactl unload-module number_to_replace
2. You can now safely remove the cable.

Please check that you've done the operations in the correct order. (Don't hurt your ears).

Tested on Nexus 5 Dev

Hi,
just a few thoughts about Open-store and apt package manager. I don't think that any of the two ways is perfect or wrong, they are just different in the way they handle security and privacy.
Open store allows everyone to upload a new app, that will be automatically added and will be available by default on all the UT devices. Apps aren't checked by humans if they don't ask for dangerous permissions, because they are containerized.
APT has some default repositories which only contain apps that are trusted by the OS maker. Apps can't be submitted to be displayed in apt. The user can install all the other apps by adding repositories, that the user should trust. An app is added to the default repository only if it has enough users and it passed mantainer's security checks. This makes containerization almost unnecessary, but still a nice measure for extra security.

Hello,

@mateo_salta Thank you! Having a greeter that is able to rotate would be great, so, yes, that's part of the plan. I just need to do one step at the time and I'll be there.

Working with @UniSuperBox is awesome! Thank you very much, I've learned a lot with you!

@PhoenixLandPirat Thank you for the suggestion! The accounts icon was already circular when I started, I've just used the one from the Suru theme

https://docs.ubports.com/projects/icons/en/latest/

Hi, I've made some designs previously for the ICE topic and I've added some also for the login screen. Let me know what do you think. The image is too big to upload so I'll share the direct link

https://www.figma.com/file/qmsxA1Ep7YPxAXHX9ELkcc/ICE-LockScreen-Design?node-id=491%3A1

@ubuntutouchfan Hi,

I've made a post on the forum some time ago if you want to change DNS from the terminal:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3857/set-dns-in-ut/5?_=1611263076478
( Works only for Wi-Fi networks, not mobile data )

Hi @arubislander ,
I'd like to contribute an adapted icon that looks more Ubuntuish to make the app follow the icon style.

@arubislander Hi,
I've used your app for 2 days now and I can confirm that the battery usage is much better than before .
The previous Syncthing was eating up all the battery in one night, now it is ok.
I've also found that Syncthing stops some time after the app closes. (before was running all the time)

Thanks

Hi,
maybe just a red border to mark the notification as important and persistent could work and at the same time would be more consistent in the UT style.

@metalmyles The id 628f4269-3a24-7858-e4b0-3765d485ecda should be replaced with the id of the network that you want to change the settings to. You can use the command nmcli c to list all networks with their ids. When you found the id, you can run the two commands to change the dns for that network. If you want to have adblocking, I think the suggested way to do that on UT would using the UAdblock app from the Openstore. This will block ads also on mobile connections.

@metalmyles Hello!
Yes, you can do it, but it is a bit hidden in UT, you'll need to use the terminal and it only works for wifi connections not cellular. You can check this thread:

https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3857/set-dns-in-ut/10?_=1625478487563

Hello,

@mateo_salta Thank you! Having a greeter that is able to rotate would be great, so, yes, that's part of the plan. I just need to do one step at the time and I'll be there.

Working with @UniSuperBox is awesome! Thank you very much, I've learned a lot with you!

@PhoenixLandPirat Thank you for the suggestion! The accounts icon was already circular when I started, I've just used the one from the Suru theme

https://docs.ubports.com/projects/icons/en/latest/

@marek_python Strange... another error. I can't reproduce this one, it works for me. Have you tried to reload without cache using Ctrl+F5 ? Maybe some scripts are still cached from the previous version.

@flohack Yes, it works

@flohack The messages appear after page load and when scrolling on both Chromium and Firefox. I've disabled both the Firefox inbuilt protections and adblock and it is still appearing. It seems that there are multiple errors:

ReferenceError: _paq is not defined

https://ubports.com/web/content/110907-5bfc8a4/1/web.assets_frontend_lazy.js:362
Traceback:
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Traceback:
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@flohack I can confirm, the error is still there

@cibersheep Thank you for the explaination. Now it's clear, if we can hide it when external keyboard is not detected as @mateo_salta suggested would be better.

Sure, we can use the back icon. Initially I've thought it more as a switch between screens than a button to go back, but since we currently have only 2 screens (greeter and login) and no multi-user or guest apps the back button makes more sense. I took the idea of the swipes from scopes. I liked scopes very much

@purplevvay Hi, your designs look great!
The icons look awesome, the only thing I would keep as full text is the emergency text, because it would be more visible. Also the arrow at the bottom is inverted, in the system apps ( contacts, weather, calculator... ) the arrow is oriented the other way.

Sure also the mobile landscape mode should be designed. I've put the user icon on the left of the username in my designs to fit also this need. Otherwise the keyboard might overlap the login field. Making it look the same on all screen sizes would be better for convergence. On my phone the space available is less than half of the screen height (other phones with different screen ratio might have less space).

I don't understand the function of the keyboard icon. Can't I just tap on the input field to open keyboard and swipe down to hide it?

My idea for the back button is to use a left to right swipe to go back. I've thought the login as a succession of screen displaying all users and quick app access. Swiping left/right would allow you to switch screens.

@mateo_salta said in Login screen/Code input Design:

so, interesting, if we get rid of the box background completely, error text is not really visible. It is looking good replacing the text with white to match. here are screens, one no background, one with .3 opacity

Maybe we can change the way we display errors:

@cibersheep said in Login screen/Code input Design:

This is very interesting. I don't know if the OSK can show up if the cursor is not in a TextField though

I think it could be a text field with the appropriate letter spacing and a text label with the empty dots on the background. The text field would have a custom password char, no border and hidden cursor. Would it be simpler to implement like that?

@mateo_salta said in Login screen/Code input Design:

@capsia oh, I like the emergency screen, this could easily be in the bottom edge. We would then need to make corresponding gsettings, and settings in the settings app.

Great!

@mateo_salta said in Login screen/Code input Design:

@capsia Im not sure we would want to change one swipe to something else, but camera or other shortcuts, could come as configurable buttons, but that is a lot of work. It would be great to see more ideas on how to go about 'no unlock' launching of apps. There are also things in the quick launch menus in the launcher that are conditionally hidden when designated private, this makes sure the open window names are not shown for morph browser when locked, something similar may be needed for apps to use this feature if we want to implement, ie take pictures but not allow deleting, or viewing the gallery portion of the app, or if you want quick clock app access, show time/stopwatch, but not edit zones or alarms, is a complicated feature, but one that could be really cool if made

My idea to implement it, was to run the apps in something similar to the 'guest session' that unity7 used to have. This way the app won't have access to userdata. Then the app could say which data to save in the user session. When the user logins will be notified that new pictures ( timers.... or anything else) were taken in guest mode and ask him whether he wants to save them or not. Of course this would need a lot of work too, because we will need to provide multiuser capabilities.

@mateo_salta said in Login screen/Code input Design:

@capsia hm, I wonder if some kind of overlay blend mode is available, we might be able to make some kind of color changing glass look if that is possible, instead of a grey see through box

I think that the current background darkening looks good, however if you think it can be improve it, give it a try.