Although I do see the benefits of variety and paying options, I personally do not like the idea of paid apps and all that stuff in OpenStore. I think it would loose the UT's idea of open source. We then couldn't call it OpenStore anymore.

And how can you trust those paid apps that they do not collect data? They won't be open source I suppose... I am using UT because it is not Googles PlayStore with loads of sneaky apps around.

He has been mentioned, but many, many, many ... thanks to @bhdouglass master of OpenStore!!! What would we be without our OpenStore? Great work done there - and certainly a lot of time spend.

Many thanks to everyone working on clickable - I know for sure @bhdouglass and @jonius - who provide a magical and crucial tool for us to create apps.

Thanks @bhdouglass for asking me to maintain weather app. With your advice and a lot of starting help by @jonius , design guidance from some weeeee helper @CiberSheep I am happy to be able to contribute.

Also many thanks to all translators like @Anne017 for hours of translating, so others with less knowledge of the English language can enjoy Ubuntu Touch.

And thanks to everyone else here making up a nice community!

Edit: I forgot to mention two important contributors: @Krille and @nanu-c . With a lot of time and love they provide apps for matrix and signal. Significant add ons next to Teleports. So man thanks to you too!

Tested on BQ E5 running dev with todays update installed before the test.
Sadly I do still get the SIM pin dialog skipped now on 2 out of 5 reboots.

I hope I am not mixing up things. This is (too) what this fix is about, isn't it?

While we are waiting for PureMaps to provide offline functionality, here some instructions on how to get offline maps for uNav working using downloadosmtiles. I do post this here because I did encounter a few stones on the road to success.

1. download downloadosmtiles from the left hand menu
2. extract to a folder on your harddisc, i.e. Downloads/osmtiles
3. run the script with perl downloadosmtiles.pl --link='http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.5782&lon=11.0076&zoom=10&layers=B000FTF' --zoom=5:16 --destdir=somewhere/maps

• of course replace coordninates with your target coordinates, the area seems to depend on the zoom value after the coords
• replace the path for destdir with another one, default is the current working directory
• change zoom levels, levels above 16 do take quite some time to download, you can download 5 to 16 first, and only level 17 or above later if you really need it

4. copy the map-files (foldernames = zoom level i.e. 5) onto your phone i.e. in a folder Documents/uNav_maps
   [zip the map tiles and copy the zip file, that is much faster than copying thousands of files]
5. in Terminal app run the following commands:
   cd Downloads/uNav_maps
rsync -avp . ~/.local/share/navigator.costales/maps
   [rsync is faster than cp and gives you progress information]
6. open up uNav, goto settings, change Modus to offline maps

EDIT:
To specify a bounding box for the tiles do be downloaded the command in step 3 needs to look like this:
perl downloadosmtiles.pl --latitude=47.35371:49.93708 --longitude=7.38281:10.54687 --zoom=5:7 --destdir=somewhere/maps
edit finished

Have fun! Don't get lost!

for lazy guys like me:
If you do this regularly, you may wish to create yourself a small shell script in your phones home folder called i.e. cpbash.sh. Then only open Terminal and run bash cpmaps.sh. Put the following two lines into the script:
cd Downloads/uNav_maps
rsync -avp . ~/.local/share/navigator.costales/maps

Troubleshooting: (on ubuntu 18.04)
... Can't locate Geo/OSM/Tiles.pm in @INC ...

• open the file downloadosmtiles.pl in a editor
• before line 6 add the following line: use lib '/Downloads/OSMtiles/Geo-OSM-Tiles-0.04/lib';, replace the path with your download location

... Can't locate Geo/OSM/Tiles.pm in @INC ...

• install YAML.pm by running: sudo apt-get install libyaml-perl

• you may need to create the folder maps to be like this: ~/.local/share/navigator.costales/maps, then map data wants to be in there in a structure like this (see https://unav.me/offline/) :
  ~/.local/share/navigator.costales/maps/10/
  ~/.local/share/navigator.costales/maps/10/523/
  ~/.local/share/navigator.costales/maps/10/523/331.png

Are there any plans to integrate system theme selection into system settings?
Because, well, it is called 'system' theme and it is applied system-wide so I think that is where it does belong to rather than having to use (great almighty) UTTT.

I am aware of the fact that still lots of apps are not (fully) supporting dark mode, but with this setting easier to reach maybe it will help to encourage developers to pay more attention to this.

I red this forum post and Marius's comment listed there (almost at the end). It says that there are plans are to move away from ubuntu location service towards geoclue and qtlocation and hybris platform.

What's the status with that. Is there any progress?

I know what you are talking about, because on my E5 I do/did have this very rarely. It used to be more. Since OTA 6 it is gone together with another nasty bug (screen not unlocking on incoming calls and so on).
Did you/do you change your volume? In the German telegram group someone was describing the same problem (see: https://t.me/UBports_Deutsch/25623). There was the idea that it might be connected to the sound volume. With a volume of approx. 45%-55% it is more likely to have this bug.

To complete the ideas from the Telegram-thread a few days ago I add my draft as well. Although I was already reminded that there used to be a browser "in the old times" using a similar logo.
Teleports - port - steering wheel was the idea behind it...

Edit 1:
In Germany there is a phrase "ein sicherer Hafen" (a safe port). A port suggests safety (for ships).
If that makes sense in other languages a marketing phrase for TELEports (independent of the icon) could be:
<marketing> "TELEports - a safe port for your chats" </marketing>

Edit 2: For legal purposes, the plane is taken from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Telegram_Messenger#/media/File:Telegram_logo.svg and comes as public domain. No copyright fraud intended.

Great job! I do really appreciate the efforts to not only fix numerous issues but as well design entirely new things!

I do really like the option to be able to easily pick and arrange icons on my home screen (UT Tweak Tools does that at the moment). That's something that would definitely add some value to UT.
-> I would like to see a feature to tap - hold - shuffle around icons.
-> Also I think it would be good, if apps would be either on the homescreen or on the other page. So you don't get them twice.

How about this:
0. the launcher for some apps you would like to reach from every place on your phone (i.e. settings, OpenStore, ?)

1. home screen as in sprint with your most favorite apps for quickest access
2. at the bottom numbered icons that will load separate "app folder pages"
   -> number 1: all other apps that are not assigned to one of the other screens
   -> number 2: custom = maybe games
   -> number 3: custom = maybe social/communication apps
   -> more numbers if the screen allows it
   On my BQ E5 there won't fit more icons unless they are smaller. But 4 will quite likely be possible.

With this layout you can quickly reach lots of apps.
Custom icons/group icons would be a plus to make it more obvious which type of apps you are holding on your pages.