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And added a new part "rebirth" (La renaissance), as the last one "The fall" (Le déclin), could make readers think uTouch is dead.
What do you think about it (French and others).
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch#La_renaissance
Feel free to tell, if i wrote mistakes, or forgot something (and i probably did).
Feel free to try translate lol : https://www.deepl.com/home
@dalharmony said in Android Apps Is A NonStarter:
I don't see how Ubuntu Touch will ever become more than a curiosity without being able to run them.
That's a bit odd to say that. It's like saying "i don't see how GNU/Linux desktop OS will ever become more than a curiosity without being able to run Windows programms"...
You don't choose GNUL to run windows apps or reject it because it can't, you choose it to free yourself from microsoft or apple. Same is UT with google or apple.
@nero355 said in Life with BQ4.5 after 20.04:
Well, I thought the following would be possible :
Keep using the 16.04 LTS release without OS updates/upgrades.
Keep using the apps that will still work with the 16.04 LTS as long as they do...Basically what I am doing with my current Android based ZUK Z2 Pro phone
That's what i'm going to do, as i also did after canonical drop.
I stayed 2 years with their last OTA using Open Store.
This time i hope by there Pinephone(s) will be full working devices, i'd really prefer open source hardware so no more vendor obsolescence.
Little update :
I managed to find some icons with transparancy (this way you can change background colors @domubpkm :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: ) in /usr/share/icons, i used thoses from suru/apps/scalable, i let them grey for the moment, but color can be changed with Gimp for instance...
I also managed to find some additional URLdispatcher compatible apps, wich are dialer app, openstore app, uTouch settings, contact app.
To add one of them, add an internet widget, and go to "Link URL" field, erase it, and add instead (edited since new findings) :
document:// for launching document viewer
dekko:// for Dekko mail app, or mailto://xxx@xxx.xxx for opening new mail form to setted address
addressbook:// for contacts
openstore:// for openstore
settings:// for uTouch settings
dialer:// for opening dialer, or tel://01.02.03.04.05 for opening dialer with number pre-composed, each number need to be separated by one dot (in this example, it's a french number pattern), "tel" with no number do the same as "dialer".
message:// also exists for opening messaging app, but it opens it with form to create new message, i did not find a way to open it the same as if you open it from drawer/launcher, but if you add contact name or contact number after it + a third / it will open the contact thread (thanks @domubpkm for the finding) : message:///01.02.03.04.05
You don't need to be so aggressive... :flushed_face:
People here don't earn billions to do what they do, like GAFA do.
They earn nothing, and their only reward is optional donations and user using their work.
If you think some things could be better, tell, gently, sure you could even participate to make it better, it's a community work after all...
Now if you need help, ask, gently, and be patient for answer.
Have you even thought your problem could be hardware issue, sim connectors or sim port connectors, have you tried cleaning it?
@CiberSheep
I don't think this is spam, just a ping for "home apps" users (like I did myself here when Pavel released "Home").
Sadly "home" and "launcher modular" no longer have their original mainteners (and I'm very worried about what happened to Pavel...).
They got "forked" by some others to work under Focal, but that's kind of dead ends.
So this is a way to tell those apps former users there is an alternative, I guess.
After all, he announced here, just few post upper, that he intended to do something "homish".
Now he did and announce it.
I don't believe that deserved locking thread.
@bforpc said in runnig a webserver - no chance:
If ubports should be more then a system for nerds and some special interest groups, then it should have more than the other 2 OS'es.
Before anything else, uTouch is a phone targeted os for people, any kind, that wish to get rid of gafam.
All those people need, 90% i'd say, is reliable basic smarphone features first, and if possible when such is done, reliable advanced smartphone features.
Right now there is lot to do for few devs, so just take on you and wait.
You can't ask ten devs or so, to achieve the same work that hundred of thousand do for the other 2 OS'es in the same time.
@bocephus
Stop being offensive right now please.
You have your thinking about what should be a GNU/Linux user, ok, well, that's your right.
Now being aggressive on other users just because they think different is not in the ubports community code of conduct.
You have twitter or facebook to do that...
https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/arale/
"This device currently offers minimal features, most of the smart functionalities might not work yet. It can be a very nice second device."
I run UT on MX4 from its launch by canonical and it's a perfectly fonctionnal phone.
Only battery percentage is bugging, but as i understood it was also the case under android.
I know very few if not no one will get a MX4 now, but its device page is wrong, please correct it.
@Lakotaubp said in Volla Phone X23 about to ship:
hard/ tough discussions carried out in a polite manner with respect and tolerance for the other persons views are fine
This.
If you insist calling name and cursing community members, we'll have to pull hammer out...
Here is not a jugement for what you are saying about Hallo Welt way to sell their rebadged gigaset with "only" software work on indiegogo diferently than on their online shop, but the way you say and argue it, and call name members that don't agree with you.
You're not on twitter or reddit here !
@hekathegreat
Yes UT is a "full" GNU/Linux on the OS part, but a secure mobile oriented one, so you can't install snap ou deb packages in its default state.
On android phones, it runs on some android parts, most of them are vendor drivers, and it needs to use vendor Linux custom kernel to make phone work properly, but nothing from what you do on UT is shared with google (unless you want to, i.e. by using a google account) or any other entity.
Default installed apps have nothing to do with google, contact, messaging, phoning apps, and all the others are from ubports and opensourced and of course ubports doesn't collect your personnal data.
On openstore (wich only require account if you want to review apps) it's the same, only specific apps that has to do with google or youtube account can share some data with google.
Apps on UT are strictly confined, except core apps and some other, reviewed by ubports team.
Search "halium" and HAL (hardware abstraction layer) to better understand how UT works on android native phones.
@Cycle-Maniac
Ubuntu Touch would not benefits a fork, there is so few dev power that splitting effort would be a loss for us, users.
For now, the goal is to have a full working 20.04 UT.
And then maybe some work will be done to the UI.
Some is already done for example the app Ubuntu Touch tweak tool gives user lot of options that are not in the OS settings, like scalling or touch edge settings, but in the last UT updates, some of those settings are now included in core setting app (edge setting for instance).
UT UI in the canonical era was way different from now, but when ubports took the flag, they made choices to focus on the most important.
Homescreen(s) and UI is an old and long topic here, do some research you'll see that it's not trivial for anyone.
That's why, in the meantime of waiting for something official done to the core OS UI homescreen(s), some work was done by community dev, like Home or Launcher Modular (this one seems to be dead as I just checked can no longer be found on openstore).
For now, you'll have to deal with the actual UI.
I don't know if you're a dev yourself, but if you are, and want to involve further into UT, I'm sure ubports dev team will be glad to have someone willing to improve UT UI.
Not everyone lives in USA... So coro... euuuu 3G or Volte "apocalypse" is not an issue for all.
Here in France, 3G or Voice LTE (4G) is living a good life for still long.
Wanted to say that because your topic seems unclear on that.
You should modify title "USA : The Coming 3G Voice Apocalypse"
@domubpkm said in [HowTo] Alternate way of saving battery when using 4G/LTE:
Does it mean that the main purpose of the work is that MMS could be received normally with cellular data OFF ?
No the purpose is to not loose MMS in any cases and being able to download them when data is back on.
You can't receive MMS without data on, no software tweak can change this.
See there if not already done for full story : https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5100/the-mms-lost-story
@kingu said in I am about to give up and leave:
You understand you are not a good user
That's what you "understand", and you're wrong.
Someone using UT for almost 10 years as daily driver would not do a thread like that without being disappointed.
Some decisions, like making morph the only webrowser, and part of the system and in consequence not updatable independently, could not end anything different that the situation we encounter now.
This is a very important thing on a smartphone, being able to browse the web.
And his "grief" on Volla can be heard, they sell the only smartphones preinstalled with UT on it, which make them the first choice for "noobs" that fear flashing devices, and those devices are not 100% working, even the very first one, under UT.
Maybe Volla should focus on that and not on doing things like dual boot (keeping it for themselves... viva open source..), and selling new devices like Quintus, when the older ones are still not 100% fonctionnal.
@nero355 said in Remnant of Dev channel update still shows after reinstalling Stable channel.:
Why does it say version 18 while it's OTA 20 ?!
Maybe because it's the 18th update in stable for this particular device ?
@theprivacydad
You're right.
But also, the name is confusing.
Some may think "daily channel" is for "daily device"...