@kugiigi said in Libertine and Desktop apps in OTA-14:

Also, running desktop apps per se isn't part of convergence, it will only make sense if they are also usable of smaller screens which most of them are not and that's why they are called legacy apps in libertine. Good thing is that because of the Pinephone and LIbrem 5 and such, there are now efforts to make some desktop apps be convergent

Well, I guess there's a difference to make between smartphones and tablets. I'm running UBtouch on an Aquaris M10 and I'd love to be able to use it both as a tablet and a small desktop computer (with a BT keyboard and mouse). I look forward to the new developments you mention which will eventually make this possible.

@advocatux Did a last try with the Asus running 10.04 LTS. After uninstalling modemmanager, it finally worked
Thanks to all.
It now just remains to update to the latest version.

@gdegrez said in Libertine and Desktop apps in OTA-14:

PS2: As they don't work, I would like to uninstall Firefox and Frescobaldi/Lilypond. How to do that properly is unclear to me.
Any help would be appreciated.

Got this one from http://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/libertine.html

@Flohack said in Libertine and Desktop apps in OTA-14:

Converges is not "running desktop apps on a phone". For us its mainly a task to create Apps that behave well on devices of various size and capabilities.

Firefox is in no way optimized to run in UT, and Libertine is kind of a bridging the gap, but still has a lot of chances to break. You will run into a lot of usability issues, also exchanging data between other apps outside Libertine may not work.

Well, I guess I misunderstood the statement on ubuntu-touch.io under the heading Convergence: " Imagine linking your mobile device to a monitor, mouse and keyboard and having it instantly transformed into a desktop experience. With Ubuntu Touch you only need one device. "

I've long resisted purchasing a tablet because I hate the iOS and Android operating systems which do not allow to do anything serious on those machines. I finally purchased a (2nd hand) Aquaris M10 FHD to install UBTouch on it, hoping that I would be able to do more. I am a musician, I would like to be able to engrave my scores (using Frescobaldi/Lilypond or Musescore), install the tablet on a stand with the resulting pdf (with the possibility of annotating it) and connect it to a BT pedal to turn the pages as I am playing using a single device.
With iOS and Android, I can do the second part, but I need a desktop or laptop running a decent OS for the engraving part.

I understand it's not an easy job to make this possible (Microsoft failed with Windows 8 and the Metro interface), but I still look forward to the fact that it will be possible some day.

PS1: I tried to install Firefox because I cannot connect to my google account (shame on me) with the Morph browser and there's no alternative browser.
PS2: As they don't work, I would like to uninstall Firefox and Frescobaldi/Lilypond. How to do that properly is unclear to me.
Any help would be appreciated.
PS3: I installed the application in a container of my own. The system however came with a built-in (puritine) container in which several apps (such as libreoffice) are supposedly installed. But I don't know how to launch them (and even whether they can be launched at all): ubuntu-app-launch-appids does not show them at all.

@kugiigi said in Libertine and Desktop apps in OTA-14:

Also, running desktop apps per se isn't part of convergence, it will only make sense if they are also usable of smaller screens which most of them are not and that's why they are called legacy apps in libertine. Good thing is that because of the Pinephone and LIbrem 5 and such, there are now efforts to make some desktop apps be convergent

Well, I guess there's a difference to make between smartphones and tablets. I'm running UBtouch on an Aquaris M10 and I'd love to be able to use it both as a tablet and a small desktop computer (with a BT keyboard and mouse). I look forward to the new developments you mention which will eventually make this possible.

Hello,

This is a kind of follow-up on the same subject on OTA-12.
I've tried (successfully) to install Firefox and Frescobaldi yesderday, but neither works properly. Frescobaldi launches and then quits, Firefox issues an error message like " the tab crashed, click on restore the tab to reload the page".
Looks like there is still a long way to go before achieving true convergence. Any report of (really) successful Desktop app installation on OTA-14?

Gérard

@mihael

Thanks, that works.
Strange though that one cannot cut and paste across applications.

I'd like to transfer a note into another app for further processing on my laptop.
I clicked on "modify", selected the whole text and clicked "copy" but I can't manage to paste it into any other application, such as Dekko2 (to send it by mail) or Writer.
I can't print it either from Notes.

Any suggestion?
Thanks.

Gérard

@guru
Well, I enventually succeeded to connect to the account (although I had tried the same config. before without success).
But I just get the list of messages but the messages are empty (except for attachments)

@guru said in Dekko 2 account settings:

I connect to Microsofts servers via IMAP and SMTP to read my mails of my company Exchange server. The connect details are:

imaps://username@company.com@pod51010.outlook.com/INBOX
smtp://username@company.com@pod51010.outlook.com:587

Hi, I come back to your previous message. Are you connecting to the Exchange server with Dekko2, or with the web browser? If it is with Dekko2, I guess that the ingoing mail settings should be:
Server name: pod51010.outlook.com
Username: username@company.com
Port: (443 ?)
Security: SSL/TLS ?

And, as far as the outgoing mail settings are concerned,
Server name: pod51010.outlook.com
Username: username@company.com
Port: 587
Security: SSL/TLS

Is this correct?

@guru
With Thunderbird on Ubuntu 16.04LTS, there's an add-on to connect to MS Exchange servers, with which I could connect successfully. Now, I see that the server ID includes the ews path, of the form exchange.company.com/ews/something.aswx
I didn't try yet with Dekko2, do you think that might work?

@guru Well, I could find the file for my first identity, but that includes no info on the outgoing and ingoing mail servers. And I couldn't find the files for the 2 other identities.

No way to set up my account on the exchange server. All attemps unsuccesful