@fakeshell yeah no easy task, and we'll migrate to systemd anyway xd
Posts made by Fuseteam
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RE: Libertine tested apps, hacks, tips and tricks
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RE: Libertine tested apps, hacks, tips and tricks
@fakeshell snaps won't work, cause no systemd. Flatpak has no osk support atm, among other missing integrations including portal support
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RE: How can I help?
@applee the thing is some halium operating systems don't use ofono, they use modemmanager iirc xd
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RE: How can I help?
@applee ah i need to read more thanks. tho i still don't know if "aiming to standardize middleware to talk to android daemons" means it's a part of halium or not
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RE: How can I help?
@applee i'm fairly certain both the kernel and ofono are outside of halium, but i can't say that with absolute certainty. i agree the best way to understand it would be to try porting yes. i too wish i could make time for it
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RE: How can I help?
@applee thanks for the links, i've been following the groups as well, and now i found a short description on telegram that made it click for me:
Halium is basically custom version of Android build specifically to run services that speaks to Android hardware
edit: i just noticed i already posted that did that description not suffice?
edit2: ok so i found an (older) image of the diagram florian showed
my current understanding is that the bluebox is "halium" although in florian's diagram the bluebox is considerably larger hmm -
RE: Community UBports its future
What kind of companies would be interested in an OS that doesn't have a locked bootloader or unencrypted phone rom?
In those companies will they see that UT is easier to use than android?
Do we have all the android options to be attractive?
Will these companies be able to use our country's banks or government apps?
Will the employees of these companies be able to make video calls?
Will they be able to talk from the car to another employee via bluetooth?
Will they be able to pay for food at the bar from their mobile phones?yes these are important questions, but we must've forgo what we can do to make it more attractive
for example if there's a missing app, what can we do to convince the app developer or the company behind it to support Ubuntu Touch. if there's a missing functionality what can we do to fix it whether that's ourselves if we can program or by attracting a developers with the skills.so rather than "what makes it attractive to companies?" the question becomes "what can we do to make it attractive to companies?" and by extension "what can we do to move Ubuntu Touch forward?"
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RE: New kernel builds: call for testing
@mardy niiice, thanks for your work i'll test it out too~ sadly my battery is rather old to be a reliable battery test and my touch screen isn't in the best state either but i'll be sure to report any other issues!
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RE: Community UBports its future
honestly i don't think we should only focus on what users can donate. there are more ways to contribute, as already mentioned, including volunteering to lessen the load on "the core team".
As Dalton mentioned in the last Q & A "i've seen the mentality change from 'what can we do together?' to 'what can the foundation do for me?'" "foundation" can also be replaced with "the core team" the meaning is the same. If we want to grow we need to adopt the mentality that brought us this far which is "What can we do together?" and there's more we can do that just technical things like contributing code or donating money, we can also promote the project and perhaps interest companies with the same value to become sponsors, like volla, smoose and pine64, or ways to collaborate on the system. The field of ways we can help is huge, let's utilize it!
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RE: How can I help?
@cliffcoggin hi, i'm way late but i found a nice short explaination of halium that finally made it click for me. i'm posting it here because perhaps @AppLee might find it usefull to add it to his short description:
"Halium is basically a custom version of Android build specifically to run services that speaks to Android hardware"
as these services make use of Android libraries halium also uses a wine-like "compatibility layer" to load those libraries in Linux called "libhybris"
as a closing note i would like to encourage you to not be discouraged when you feel like you don't understand much. i can tell you that few of the regular contributors understand the entire system completely. even the most knowlegable contributors started with zero understanding of the system, nay even the devs at canonical each "specialized" in specific parts of the os, while not knowing much about other part
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RE: Is it possible to block ads via hosts file on UT?
@opolork do keep in mind that the hosts file is readonly for a reason. any changes will be lost after an ota update, uAdBlock know how to restore it changes, but it might become tedious for you to restore your changes
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RE: Alternative Browser apps?
@dpitti wasn't the keyboard so large it covered your entire screen?
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RE: Alternative Browser apps?
Hiya @keneda, i'm not sure if i understand your question.
i can only make assumptions- if i assume you mean if i'm compiling "desktop applications" to make these clicks, i'm not. what i'm doing it using apt to download packages from the ubuntu repos, extracting them and the repackaging them as clicks, all using a bash script.
- if i assume you if it's possible to compile desktop apps from source to an usable ubuntu touch click, yes that's perfectly possible. we could perhaps do that to gtk itself, maybe that will fix the keyboard issue. i've been testing a couple of environment variables to see if it's some kind of path it's not reading correctly but so far i'm only hitting dead ends. but i'm trailing off, yes it is perfectly possible to recompile desktop apps and package them as a click, it could possibly even overcome some of the limitations i've encountered so far
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RE: Alternative Browser apps?
ok i think i generalized the firefox repo to the limit;
- the meat of the builder is in builder.sh.
- the template files are placed in the correct location with the specific name while the environment for building is setup with prebuild.sh (hmmm maybe i can move that to build.sh)
- the package specific stuff are saved in pkg.d
- the actual package to build is specificied in clickable.json any package in the ubuntu repos can be specified, no command line apps tho those won't magically launch in the terminal (i ain't a magician sorry :P)
- package maintainer info can be set in manifest.json, the package name will be set with prebuild.sh
- apparmore permissions can be set in apparmor.json
Limitations:
- as mentioned earlier it needs to be unconfined due to needing xmir, as such only the xmir branch has an actual working click, the master branch would launch on wayland but this particular version has broken wayland support, if the package has wayland support confined may be possible
- any package which has an
all
package as a dependency will fail to build, cause i'm a noob - no command line apps! we have crackle for that nudge nudge
- no touch (so far), no OSK (so far), no content hub, no media hub
- no per device scaling, currently scaling is set with the environment variable
GDK_DPI_SCALE=2
- i have no idea how to handle the above 2
- i also have no idea how to handle settings schema's at all
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RE: Alternative Browser apps?
ah the cat's out of the bag; i wouldn't even call what i have a beta at this point, it is an pre-alpha click package.
basically i'm downloading the firefox deb package with apt, extracting it and packaging that result as a click.It does not pop up the keyboard, it has no touch support out of the box and it does not integrate at all with the os. it just launches and the interface is somewhat scaled.
It is also unconfined due to needing xmir atm, which not available to confined apps.to get the keyboard to pop up we need to either get maliit-inputcontext-gtk3 working in the click or ship it with the rootfs.
i'm currently more focused on generalizing my work so others can benefit of it. the build script is based off work by mateo salta, maciek sopyło and my crackle script altered to fit the needs of a custom clickable builder
the firefox click can be found at gitlab.com/debclick/ufirefox.
i created the debclick group to organize all similar experiments under one umbrella, if anyone wants access hit me upthe clicks build from the master branch do not launch as they lack proper wayland support.
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RE: FM radio service
@dpitti hi, no it is really the fm radio antenna. i have no idea what they did physically but the redmi 9 and redmi note 9 do not need the headset to act like an antenna at all. in cases where does not have that antenna that command returns either nothing or
0
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RE: FM radio service
@mardy hi, so
/dev/fm
does exist on the redmi note 9 (merlin) and the redmi 9(lancelot) just like on the vollaphone, however the volla fm radio app crashes the phone whenever the radio is started.according notkit the crash occurs somewhere in here: https://github.com/MiCode/MTK_kernel_modules/blob/lancelot-q-oss/connectivity/fmradio/core/fm_main.c#L242
no idea why at the moment@dpitti hear has been tweaking the volla fm radio app to find a way to have it not crash over at https://github.com/1978Enrico/fmradio-volla
it should be noted that the both merlin and lancelot have a shotwave antenna, i am somewhat hoping to build a check somewhere that the app doesn't prompt for the headset. but perhaps this could be a part of the radio service checks, whether an antenna is available, headset or shortwave.
on merlin and lancelot the presence of a shortwave antenna can be queried withgetprop ro.vendor.mtk_fm_short_antenna_support
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RE: Snap Crackle and Pop! Readwrite rootfs is overrated
i have no publish a ready to use zip file in the release section of the github mirror along with some rudimentary usage instructions
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RE: Snap Crackle and Pop! Readwrite rootfs is overrated
@fuseteam said in Snap Crackle and Pop! Readwrite rootfs is overrated:
Major limitation #1: seahorse the gnome keyring frontend thingie
attempts to launch seahorse results in the following error:(process:9315): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.seahorse' is not installed Trace/breakpoint trap
looks like these schema's are installed in
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
i wonder if this can be controlled somehow with packages as to tell the program where to look for these schemas