Not a question, but I just want to say...

Congratulations on your progress toward completing OTA-12! Amazing work!!

Not a question, but I just want to say...

Congratulations on completing and marking closed the Unity8+Mir upgrade project!

I get that "Libertine allows you to use standard desktop applications in Ubuntu Touch." But would you please explain (preferably ELI5) :

1. Why Libertine is needed, and
2. How Libertine does what it does.

Also, once UT fully supports Wayland (using new Mir and new Unity8), will UT need Libertine for running desktop Wayland applications?

@alan_g said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 51 Saturday 1st Of June At 19:00 UTC:

Seeing the above question about integrating Wayland I think it would be good time to explain how some things fit together:

1. "New Mir"
2. "New Unity8"
3. Replacing Xmir with Xwayland
4. Enabling apps using toolkits that support Wayland
5. Migrating existing apps to Wayland
6. Migrating compositior components to Wayland

Yes! Please discuss all of the above, hopefully in a way that we mere mortals can understand, at least partially.

Also, because my question was not addressed in the Q&A 50, I'll reiterate my question here, with a sincere hope that my question be will be addressed in Q&A 51:

Once you've brought the latest versions of Unity8 and Mir to mobile devices, will you allocate more resources to bringing a usable version of Unity8 to desktops/laptops?

I ask because I suspect that offering a version of Unity8 usable on desktops/laptops will appeal to a large audience, which may ultimately attract more interest in your mobile project.

Once you've brought the latest versions of Unity8 and Mir to mobile devices, will you allocate more resources to bringing a usable version of Unity8 to desktops/laptops?

I ask because I suspect that offering a version of Unity8 usable on desktops/laptops will appeal to a large audience, which may ultimately attract more interest in your mobile project.

I suggest waiting a few months (preferably at least six months) to gauge whether GitHub will change for the worse in any way. If you notice changes for the worse, then plan an orderly exit at that time. But if you don’t notice any changes for the worse, no need to divert precious time from development.

Mir 0.32 release candidate discussed here. Note the logind support is nearly complete.

I'm not at all clear what Canonical is planning for their "Anbox Cloud" project. But if the project aims to offer a way to run some Android apps in the cloud (rather than directly on a Linux device), the project seems like a good thing for Ubuntu Touch.

Your initial thoughts on "Anbox Cloud" project?

@erlend said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 67 Saturday 11th Of January At 19:00 UTC:

I hear last time that.. Mir is going to be replaced with Wayland....

The devs can clear this up better than I can, and so I defer to the devs for a more complete explanation.

But in the meantime, suffice to say that it's not quite correct to say that "Mir is going to be replaced with Wayland." (Mir is a display server, and Wayland is a protocol.) Rather, UBports is replacing the "old" Mir display server with the "new" Mir display server.

The "old" MIr display server used its own (non-Wayland compliant) protocol, while the "new" Mir display server is now Wayland compliant. As of about Mir 1.6, in addition to being Wayland compliant, "new" also supports the legacy protocol that was used by the "old" Mir display server. However, that legacy support will eventually be removed from Mir (probably starting from about Mir 1.7), hence the need to "Waylandify" Ubuntu Touch.

Questions for Q&A: Regarding your efforts to "Waylandify" Ubuntu Touch, have you had a chance to experiment much with moving libertine to use xwayland? And if so, what are your initial impressions regarding the difficulty of the project?

Question for Q&A: Based on your experiences developing for the PinePhone, are pure Linux devices (such as the PinePhone) expected to suffer from fewer bugs compared to ported Android devices that rely on hybris/halium?

Not a question, but I just want to say...

Congratulations on your progress toward completing OTA-12! Amazing work!!

@mike68 said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 72 This Saturday 21st Of March At 19:00 UTC:

Have you heard about the project to run ... android on iPhones?

Are you referring to Project Sandcastle? If not, to what are you referring?

@wdehoog said in Q&A 71 Blog And Audio now Available:

Maybe I am wrong but I noticed an almost desperate call for help at the end of the Q&A session.

I didn't hear anything that sounded like a "desperate call" to me. But yep, they're obviously working hard (and perhaps a bit sleep deprived ).

To the UBports team: Hang in there. You're making great progress!

How's the packaging of Lomiri for Debian going?

https://unity8.io -> https://lomiri.com?

No need to go into too much detail, but I'm curious:

Currently, what are the biggest differences (if any) between the daily builds available for the PinePhone compared to the builds available on the edge channel?

And, in general, do the daily builds for the PinePhone lead, or follow, the edge channel?

@PINE64 mentions in a video posted on YouTube that, after a recent update to Unity 8, Ubuntu Touch on the PinePhone performs even better.

I'm curious: what update(s) yielded the improved performance mentioned in the video?

Also reported (with a few inaccuracies, but close enough) by Phoronix.

@arubislander said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 68 Saturday 25th Of January At 19:00 UTC:

Rather than competition the aim is to cooperate wherever possible with other projects. This helps cut down on duplicated effort, carrying all the projects forward, in accordance with the spirit of Open Source.

I completely agree with what you wrote. That is, it is not correct to say that the projects are in an engaged in unqualified "competition" to dominate market share.

Even so, I think it's fair to say that the various groups, although dedicated to cooperation wherever possible, are in engaged in a "friendly competition" to put the shared efforts to best use.

And in such a "friendly competition" to extend the capabilities of Linux phones, I'm cheering for UBports and hope that UBports will lead.