Posts made by dobey

@Mic_ Seems unrelated.

Radio updates for Android devices tend to be included in the OEM images. Given many of the devices supported by UT no longer receive OEM updates, and are end of life products, it's extremely unlikely for any firmware updates to get released for said devices. Broadcom has already not released new firmware for Nexus 4/5 Bluetooth/WiFi chips for previous vulnerabilities.

Unless you can get open source firmware written for the chips, it's unlikely to see any updates from manufacturers to fix such vulnerabilities, in older chips.

@AppLee said in Changing user agent reported by Ubuntu Touch:

You can also try the opposite method by faking UT's user agent from a laptop and see if you can sign in...

Make sure you use the full user agent string if you do. What was pasted above is not the full value.

@3arn0wl It is just GPL compliance release of kernel and modifications I think. AFAIK, it does not include open source drivers, so would of course still need Android binary drivers and Halium.

What filesystem is your SD card formatted with? Only FAT32 cards will automount. If it's exFAT, it will not work, because it is proprietary and so there is no driver available for it in such an old kernel as the supported devices require.

No, the user agent string is built from code. There is no setting for it.

Perhaps it would help if you instead explained exactly what the issue is, rather than assuming the user-agent is it (since a wifi should be accessible from a laptop too, so user-agent shouldn't mater so much).

@Marathon2422 No. Swiping from left edge to open launcher and drawer is still a thing. However, there was an issue with the fix to the tutorial to ensure it gets played correctly, which is now fixed in git, and should be in tomorrow's image.

@Nulla Took me a minute to follow what you were replying to, but unfortunately the answer right now is that accessibility is extremely lacking in UT.

@Flohack said in Looking for a BQ E4.5:

And maybe the one form Volla

This is an Android device though.

@Flohack said in Looking for a BQ E4.5:

Google project Fuchsia, they might want to get rid of the Linux kernel (and with that also get rid of us ;)). So Android-based devices might be a dead-end road in a few years.

This is pure wild speculation and doesn't help anyone. There's also no reason that eventually Mir and friends couldn't work on top of Fuchsia kernel, if the effort was made to write a backend for it.

Any older devices will have a limit to the length of time they can be supported, especially when stuck on old Android kernels. Nexus 5, OnePlus 1, and others aren't an exception to this, though there are efforts going on elsewhere to get them working with upstream kernels and open source drivers.

Device support requires people to maintain the device support. If the number of users of a device keeps decreasing, and nobody is interested in maintaining it, then eventually that device will have to become unsupported. The best way to keep a device supported, is to start getting involved with keeping it working at the kernel level, backporting security fixes, and new kernel features when they become a requirement.

It is a bug.

@Lakotaubp said in Swipe style keyboard:

There was another keyboard type more swipe based under development/testing

I think you're thinking of the English version of the Flick layout, which fuseteam was working on.

There was also some previous work on the OSK from Canonical days to prototype support for something similar to swiping. I don't recall what it was called exactly, but someone wanted to work on getting it ready for UT, though I haven't heard any more about it since.

@jezek said in Indicator pull down regression on new Unity8 (rc/ver. 64):

Is this dynamic behavior possible? Where should I start (repo & how to), if I want to experiment on this idea?

I can't give a direct answer for the first question, because I don't know if it's possible or not (though I would presume it is, because it should be simply a matter of making the possible menu area smaller or hidden, and making the indicator area larger).

For the second question, it would be in the unity8 repo, and in the Panel.qml iirc.

@dtarrant said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 70 Saturday 22nd February At 19:00 UTC:

What is intention for the future?

This is a bug. They aren't missing, but for some reason are not being popped properly.

@3arn0wl said in Indicator pull down regression on new Unity8 (rc/ver. 64):

@dobey
I was rather hoping that the menus would be at the top of the window - as was the option in Unity7. I always thought that was both neat and attractive.

It does both, but maximized things collapse the title bar into the top panel, so the menus go there.

@arubislander said in Can desktop apps run on Ubuntu Touch?:

and it unapologetically makes choices to maximize that experience.

And legacy applications do not, so you will have very tiny widgets and text on your phone if you want to use them.

@Giiba said in Indicator pull down regression on new Unity8 (rc/ver. 64):

Whether this is intentional or not I do not know.

It is I would say, semi-intentional, in that the issue is new Unity8 now has support for global menus in apps (so for example, running some apps under libertine should result in their menus being available in the top panel, when in windowed/landscape mode).

There is currently no "Do not disturb" mode, nor any way to automatically power off and on the device (also, this latter would probably be device specific, as it requires certain hardware support to be doable).

@makeixo These devices are not yet available for the regular stable/rc/devel channels, and only have edge channel builds currently.

@ziggutas said in Release channel update:

It comes with a warning if after installing you decide to uninstall: restore the default launcher in System Settings first before uninstall app.

There is no such option in System Settings, so I presume this means in the Launcher Modular settings page. Also, it is not possible to perform this hack any longer to replace the dash, on rc/devel channels, as the dash is gone.