@pparent said:

a porblem we have currently with App-armour profiles, is that it won't let you communicate with the keyring in DBus via the api libsecret

is there a good reason for that ? is the API open to exploitation by a malicious client or is there some mechanism to prevent that ?

@brenno.almeida said:

On Android, the official client uses a sandboxed storage to protect those keys, so only the app or a root user can access the keys. But as far as I know there's no such mechanisms in Ubuntu Touch for us to use.

oh thanks a lot for this remark. Finally I'm getting a glimpse of what is meant by 'our banking app can only work on secure devices'. I know that Google Play protect has other mechanisms but I did not see what could not yet be done on Linux phones.

@Keneda

thanks for the confirmation. It would be nice to be able to do it to confirm regressions when a new version is installed.

@oldbutndy

I comment just to point that after the back and forth about misposting, no one has given a reply to this topic.
Yet the idea of going back in time is generally interesting and as far as I know there is no doc about it.

@Futura said:

different versions of UT, or I am not testing this the same way you are..

I use 24.04-1.2 stable. For this test it's always done before my PC keyboard with artificial light, I point the phone at the keyboard from my normal distance (about 30 cm) and the keys are blurry.

@Futura said:

moving further back letting it focus and moving back seems to do the same thing

Tried it just now to no avail. Only the camera switch does the trick for me.

@Futura said:

I have had the same experience with other devices

since the FP5 is my only UT device I can't say. Never seen that with an Android phone, and like I said with the very same phone on Waydroid the focus has no such problem.

@kugiigi said:

Fairphone 5 is indeed snappy. It also has the most usable camera

I'm curious if you experience the same focus issue for short distance photos (<30cm) as I do. It's always blurry, and switching to camera and back to photo again corrects it.
It does not seem a hardware problem since the photo app in Waydroid focuses immediately.

@pparent said:

copy the screenshots from your phone, and upload them here from your computer browser. It should work.

That's what I do (although I use SSH on the local Wifi network, always connecting this USB cable is cumbersome).

I dislike the huge screenshots on this forum so I use Kolourpaint to resize them by 50% before uploading.
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It would be nice if there could be some automatic resizing involved either in the forum software itself or in the screenshotting tool.

@jojumaxx

err, because Webber links to the default browser, that is, classical Morph that is struggling just as well on its own, while the more advanced Morph QT6 goes at least beyond the blue butterfly ?

@pparent said:

this is kind of hard

yes

@hlbkv

UT system is based on QT, whose graphic support on Linux is based on gstreamer libraries. Unfortunately by itself while wide, gstreamer support for advanced formats is not limitless.

You can find mkv sample files here

On Ubuntu 24.04 all files can be played by ffplay, even the invalid ones test4 and test7, while the standard gstreamer player (gst-play-1.0) can play 4 of them (2,3,5,7) if ffmpeg support (ffmpeg itself and the link library gstreamer1.0-libav) are not installed, and can play test1 and test6 if this support is enabled.

Ubuntu Touch can play 4 of these sample files (the same as desktop Ubuntu can play if ffmpeg support is not enabled)

gst-discoverer-1.0 test1.mkv 
(...)
Properties:
  Duration: 0:01:27.336000000
  Seekable: yes
  Live: no
  container #0: Matroska
    video #1: Microsoft MPEG-4 4.2

this 'Microsoft MPEG-4 4.2' is probably the same thing as your '10 bit support'.

You can install mpv with snap, it can probably play your mkv files.

Note that hardware support is not involved except when it comes to performance of course.

@Kadafi

err, @arubislander asked you to download, while you clicked on 'install'. That's not the same thing and clicking to download allows precisely to test if the mere act of downloading is blocked or if the downloading works fine but UT crashes while installing.
Once the file is downloaded (a file with extension of '.click') it's possible to install it by navigating to the folder and selecting it. UT asks you then to open with the store. This separates the 2 operations that the standard store installer bundles into one (for convenience, but it makes debugging more difficult).

@pparent said:

on desktop this feature is not as important as on mobile

I did not say that the feature was useless, what I was meaning is that when there is already a feature upstream it's not the best idea of reinventing it unless there is good reason that the upstream wheel don't fit the use case.

In fact upstreaming (when it makes sense) is in the UT COC, so somehow maintainers are supposed to think of that.

@pparent said:

it's handled browser-side

Hum, I did not even think of that. If Google has absorbed the idea in its gigantic browser, it could trickle in QT browser engine. That's another case where it could be better not to use a specific UT implementation.

@pparent said:

it was not a merge request it was just an issue

it was an issue but there is a MR linked (look under 'Development'). The idea is that it's a generic feature, not something specific to Ubuntu Touch. After all, mobile is far from a remote consideration for so called 'desktop' environments such as Kde and Gnome.

@pparent

A thought imposes itself though: why Network Manager is not already handling this by itself ?

Someone of course already had this idea.. A merge-request attempt followed that got quietly forgotten as happens all too often.

Note that in the issue description there is mention that in the favourite all devouring monster systemd there is something related. I did not follow up to see if systemd is not already providing it. I'd suggest you could do it though

If there is nothing useful in systemd, since network-manager seems a bit stranded (no release since mid 2024), possibly you could submit your change as a merge request in the UT version of it.

Disclaimer: as you know well I'm sure, this is not official advice of the Ubuntu Touch project with which I have no relationship.

@Homer

in any language you can shell out to systemctl --user stop myserv - or use a systemd api if your language has a module for that.

Edit: forgot 2 things:

• whatever you use (node.js or anything) the way to go to run a server process in your app is with a systemd user service.
• the code I provided is just an example. For your app you will have to pick carefully where you set your data, not straight under the root like I did. Probably under .local for persistent data or under .cache for transient data.

@developerbayman

I don't. You may have ticked more items in the notifications settings that you really want.
I have only 'When a reply is posted in a watched topic' ticked.

@Homer said:

typescript libraries have to be served from a server, cannot just be statically linked local files.

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/myserver$ systemctl --user cat myserv
# /home/phablet/.config/systemd/user/myserv.service
[Unit]
Description=my http server
After=network.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/phablet/myserver
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 -m http.server
Type=simple

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=myserver.service

systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user start myserv
then browse to http://localhost:8000

@Kadafi said:

Keeps there forever

should I understand from what you are saying that when you press the green button, nothing happens in the UI (the green button 'Install' stays displayed all the time) yet the application is installed ?

@jojumaxx

Sorry I don't know a way to scale UI elements with an environment variable.

@jojumaxx said:

GDK_SCALE=2 GDK_DPI_SCCALE=0.75

are you sure about this syntax ? try

GDK_DPI_SCALE=2