... about the goals the UBPorts team has achieved in the last months
Many thanks for your ambitious work to keep one of the last alternative mobile os alive.
After the end of UT I sold my BQ4.5 and jumped ship for a while but couldn’t resist to try it again with my Nexus 5 and wow - you solved some issues the UT team didn’t in years just by focusing on essentials
I even tried Xenial but it seems there’s is a long way to go for the N5 but the UI is very promising ... M
Just decided yesterday to become a Patron (not with a big pledge but wanted to contribute a bit ...)
I hope you keep on with your great work, we need alternatives (and I had them all from PalmOS to WebOS to Maemo to Meego to FFOS to Sailfish and UT ...) for now only two left - so please keep on going thx

Hello again,
just to let the community know. The dev of the Sailfish Twitter app Piepmatz offered any dev who wants to port his 100% open source app to UT help by this effort. He hasn't the resources to do it by himself neither does he have a UT device or wants to use one so if someone from here wants to pick this up...

Piepmatz is really brilliant..

Cheers, Martin

@pulsar33 said in Add more modern and popular devices to offical supported list:

@xqqy said in Add more modern and popular devices to offical supported list:
Maybe is time to drop some old device to newer one.

This is a totally irresponsible idea at a time when the danger of destroying the planet through over-consumption is so high and finally recognized by a growing number of people.

Desperate
Pulsar33

+1 just look at the downloads at Lineage - there is definitely a need for OS supporting older hardware abandoned by the manufacturers - same with desktop hardware still running smooth with Linux while commercial OS are sluggish or won’t get updates or not running at all ...

please think about the planet before buying new hardware ...

What's wrong with a nexus 5? It's a decent device with decent camera and a good size. Plus you can get nearly every spare part you might need.. Can't say that for any other device (ex fairphone 2) out there... Only issue is the bad battery performance...

If your os runs smooth on your device, where is the need for posh hardware?

Have a look at lineage stats, there are loads nexus 5 devices out there and running

Cheers

Linux in Dex

not sure what I should thing about that - Ubuntu ditches UT and teaming up with Samsung for a closed source proprietary convergence experience? Or do I get something wrong ...

@stefano so do I, we might try setting up a UT meeting someday and see if there more users around - maybe an open meeting at Hamilton House... I'm often abroad for work but...

Would be exactly what I want as a home screen...

I don't think that's very convenient on a mobile.. The aim of a good homescreen/app drawer should be to get your informations and/or needed apps fast and without many swipes or clicks or typing... I've been totally satisfied by the scopes approach but it seems I'm part of a minority

Hi there ...

I might be the the last one using RSS feeds but I really need my dose of news updates every few hours

As the only scope I ever used except of the app drawer, the real great rss reader scope, doesn’t work on 16.04 as all other scopes I’m desperately in need of an alternative ...

Shorter hat been compiled for 16.04 but unfortunately it doesn’t pull the feeds ... it updates ones the one feed already added by default and then it refuses to connect even to the default feed ...

I tried Feedly in the new morph browser but unfortunately the login doesn’t work - you can login and it states you’re logged in now but it doesn’t forward to the site after that and if you go back to the main site manually it doesn’t recognise the login any more ...

My favourite would be having the rss scope back but I know scopes are history so if anyone can suggest an alternative ...

Many thanks

@jjurgen I installed EFIDroid on Lineage on the Nexus 5 - works flawlessly with custom roms on Android base - as there is no downloadable image for UBPorts - why actually? - I made a twrp backup from my lineage system and am going to install ubports through MDT (last time it failed to install OTA3 - seemed the pull server was still on OTA2 so I flashed back to Lineage immediately) make a twrp backup and then flashing back to Lineage and will try to get the ubports backup running with EFIDroid - at least that’s the plan. As my shower drain pump stopped working today I might fix that first so don’t await a report too soon

that's great news, ordered mine immediately

@Kielligzind2 I tried several os and Roms for grouper - only one running smooth enough is the latest available inofficial lineage ROM (more than one year old) - if you want to try luneos there is an old one available but many things are not working as the support for grouper has been abandoned two versions ago...
I'm afraid there won't be any new Roms or OS versions for grouper - it's a pitty because from the hardware side mine is just fine...

Just an idea:
as the app drawer on Unity 8 is lightning fast and handy to slide in from the left - wouldn't it be more convenient to remove the app drawer from Launcher Modular and just leave the start page plus the rss and calendar pages - then the experience would be close to my all-time favourite meego on the Nokia N9 plus a kind of 'widget page' so maybe we could get the best of three worlds and still an unique approach

@obacht said in CardDav (contacts) support:

@poVoq
from what I know you need to run your own server in order to use nextcloud, isn`t that the case?

It works with every carddav server - you just need to configure syncevolution via script or terminal - I wrote a howto for ownbay a long time ago which I could provide - you'll 'just' have to adapt the server an credentials to your needs... It's in German but according to your user name ;-)...

@syper I really hope you find a solution to keep it working with the coming update to unity - It's a far better user experience compared to a 'standard' app drawer with just the unity side bar (never been a big fan of unity anyway - neither on the desktop)
Keep up your good work and fingers crossed you can solve the problems that might occur

@PhoenixLandPirat said in Is UT efficient for a daily drive ?:

@Pookie Sync works for the calendar, only google sync works for contacts unfortunately, hopefully there will be more work on contact sync via nextcloud, because thats important, but it doesnt work atm.

you can sync contacts to nearly everywhere with syncevolution - you'll 'just' have to configure and sync via terminal works with providers and should work with nextcloud

I'm using mailbox.org - the office and encryption features are awesome plus it provides cloud storage that can be synced with open exchange - pitty there is no OX client for UT though - you still have to trust them of course ...

Option 3
and onenote on my laptop

@rinigus works like a charm - thanks a lot for bringing this to UT looking forward to offline support
I know I already asked this abouy the SFOS version a while ago, but will there be any chance you could add the possibility to use alternative vector maps like openandromaps for offline they provide all details I need for hikimg

Great work - many thanks for this, should be considered as the default UT launcher for the future ...

is there any chance to get it work with the "ubuntu home button" ?