@Alain Well, there is a description in a pinned topic. But t seems few people read it.
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/9907/read-this-before-posting-here-new-contributors-category-description

@Alain said in Where is the Desktop?:

Maybe I should try, then

I love your attitude!

@Keneda Interestingly, I'd say this is one of the first times I've seen something posted to New Contributors that was actually suited for that category... Alain is new, and wants to learn about contributing to UT's app ecosystem. Isn't that what New Contributors is for?

@pparent Amazing improvements, thank you very much!

@gpatel-fr said in Status of the Location Service (GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo) ?:

TLDR: backdoor is too strong a word, but there are privacies issues.

Well, then I was only mistaken about Google being the culprit here. Thank you.

@Vlad-Nirky No evidence, and it may be a misunderstanding on my end. As for what you posted, I don't know what any of that means.

@adorsaz said in Status of the Location Service (GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo) ?:

As these applocations can leverage the A-GPS system, could it be possible to do the same in Ubuntu Touch applications and/or system ?

Waydroid applications probably get their A-GPS from Google; if that's the case, that's a privacy issue which we want to avoid in UT. But I've heard that a Googlefree version of A-GPS is being worked on.

I fiddled and it started working! That's the good news. The bad news is that I don't know which part of my fiddling made it work. But back to the good news: it works!

@pparent said in Signal UT: Signal-Desktop for Ubuntu Touch:

everything that you type must me sent as "Backspace" is the only way to erase.

Yes, that's what I found out. Luckily I could edit the unwanted message in Signal Desktop on my laptop.

I'll see if I can find a way; if so, I will post it... and if not, I can just wait. Not a problem. I'm just happy that you're doing this.

@pparent Ah, that works! I was able to send my first message with your app.

@pparent Sorry, I don't know how to do that. Nothing I have tried so far made a send button appear, and nothing made the backspace button work. (I assume that's what you mean when you say 'back button'.)

@pparent I read that but did not understand it. It was not clear to me that this impacted the ability to send messages.

Also it's not fixing the problem.

@pparent said in Signal UT: Signal-Desktop for Ubuntu Touch:

if it does not help you can try to erase app data with Ubuntu Tweaks to start over again. (And possibly this time you can choose not to transfer the chats history to the new device, to avoid problems).

This is what I did, and it worked! Now the next question is how to send a message. There is no Send button and enter does not send it.

Oh well, this is a good start, and other things will come later I'm sure. As it is, it's very promising, thank you for your effort and I'll keep watching with interest!

@pparent Thanks for the hints! Yes, the device has a good connection, that's not it. If it keeps failing, I'll start over.

I'm trying to test it! It installed fine. I managed to link it to my primary client (Signal for Android running in Waydroid). But now it's stuck on "Syncing messages: Preparing to download... This may take a few minutes"

Is there something I can try?

@theprivacydad Looks great!

Here's a small but important typo:

UT fully optimised for Google Pixel 3

It's not. That's the Google Pixel 3a.

I did enjoy reading about your adventures, even if UT is not what you landed on. By the way, did you know that we have a functional KeePass app now, and there is a Signal Desktop port on the way? Things can certainly move fast!

@derbaertigefrytz It's as simple as this: Ubuntu Touch is not Ubuntu. You can't expect UT to stick to Ubuntu Desktop conventions; it's a phone.

PCs are much more intended for shared usage, so it makes sense to make the users easier to tell apart. It's not so common to share a phone. I suspect that's the reason why not much time was spent on this kind of personalization.

@miguelpam06 said in Request to make this operating system available for Vivo device:

Hello, I would like to support for a Vivo y39, what do I need to do?

I've translated your message, because this is an English-spoken forum.
Here is the porting documentation: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/
This will explain what needs to be done.

@Mario.CH said in Potentially turning a negative of Google's tightening restrictions into a positave:

Is that how it is in your country? Not even a post office bank?

Yes, it's true that some of our banks do not have physical locations at all anymore.

@Mario.CH said in Potentially turning a negative of Google's tightening restrictions into a positave:

Let's be honest, if everyone stopped using these services and instead did everything at the counter or in the store, then neither the tech giants nor the authorities would have so much power.

How do you do your banking at the counter if your bank has no physical locations?