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Hi,
I just wrote a PDF reader based on Chromium PDF engine.
It's pretty dummy, written in 30 minutes. But quite useful (at least for me) given the limitations of Document viewer, and that sturmreader is currently broken on noble.
I think it will greatly benefit from Qt6 upgrade, when it comes, because of improvement of the engine in chromium.
It is published in the openstore:
https://github.com/pparent76/chromiumpdf
Regards,
Pierre.
I've succeeded in opening the keyboard when editing text in signal-desktop !!!! 
I could do it reusing the work of @ChromiumOS-Guy in uWolf!
I can officially send signal messages from a native Ubuntu Touch app, without Waydroid! 
Even though for now it's not convenient , since keyboard hides the text area, and the enter button of the keyboard somehow does not trigger sending the message, and the "send" button in signal is hidden until you expend the editing area. But still very usable.
For now everything is messy, but I will try to make it available soon (I think it should be possible to do a click package, but I'm not sure yet)
Ps: Note that I could do it with Mobian version only for now.
Hi,
Just wanted to share that VLC 4 (not yet released) has an interface very close to VLC for Android.
I will be a very good candidate to port to Ubuntu Touch. The interface would probably be usable as such, but with few minimal patches to the interface it could probably be near perfect on the phone screen.
I don't have time to do that now, but probably later (possibly when release officially)
Hi,
Today I just figured why not try:
sudo snap install signal-desktop
And I realize it just works! This is crazy. With this simple command I can link my device and see my chats. Well it is certainly not a responsive interface (but not terrible either, there's just the left menu coming in the way) and the keyboard does not show for now. But I can consult messages, and this is major.
It means:
1°) We can certainly create quite easily a version of Signal-Desktop that is adapted to mobile display (with few patches to the interface to make it responsive), and that we can get a full-fledge signal client on Ubtunu touch, that way.
2°) That Mir2.0 will certainly help with that.
Ps: I guess the first easy thing to make it usable as a consul-only stuff is adapt the scale, which I guess must be easily doable.
Anyway after all the investigations that I've made I'm extremely confident that we'll be able to have a fully responsive client based on Signal-Desktop landed in the openstore within few month. I see exactly how to make it perfectly adapted to the phone Interface like whatsweb. (Funny enough it is possible to use a modified version of the js script of whatsweb to make the interface responsive, because the interface has an extremely similar structure. )
It's not anymore a question of "if" but a question of "when". But there are few tedious tasks in the way, and I need to go little by little, because I can't dedicate all my time to this.
Of course I'm open to any offer for help and testing!
I've been able to recompile Signal-Desktop from source and apply my responsive script.
It is available in the Openstore alongside these other improvements:
-Fix startup from OpenStore
-Fix open url externaly
-Fix battery problem
-Fix double window problem
There still are some keyboard issues, it's probably the next thing I will work on.
Hi,
Just wanted to mention that a nice and easy addition to Ubuntu touch would be wifi captive portal via RFC 8910 and RFC 8908.
It is actually very simple:
1- When you get a DHCP lease in the wifi interface look for option 114
2- If there is a URL in option 114 it's an API, just make a simple HTTP GET request on this URL (no parameters or header)
3- The result will be a json, if it contains "captive"="true" and has an "user-portal-url" field then we should just open this "user-portal-url" in the browser and it will allow the user to authenticate to the captive portal and use the wifi!
Really I think that's any easy addition, I may try to contribute this inside the OS when I have time.
Ps: Adding a simple script in /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ to do that should do the trick I guess.
Hi,
Just wanted to mention that I contacted the in-development French identity mobile app, to ask them for interoperability, and remind them their duty to make sure public service is available for everybody, and that their role was not to enforce the choice of mobile OS of their citizens.
https://france-identite.gouv.fr/
Surprisingly I got a pretty open and positive reply, apologizing that their app was not compatible with my OS (Ubuntu Touch), and saying they shared the goal of interoperability, and would study that with the development team what was possible. I did not expect such a positive answer, although I don't know if anything concrete will get out of this.
As a side note I wonder why for this kind of app, with a real need of interoperability, they don't use more Qt, because from what I understand Qt allows to develop apps for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux desktop, Linux mobile (Ubuntu Touch, Sailfishos, Mobian, postMarketOs, pureOs, ect...), all at once, with only few custom things to go for each platform. Any thoughts on that?
Craziest thing:
The calls are partially working out of the box!!!!
Which means we can certainly get calls working one day!
Ok I've found a way to solve keyboard bugs (in X, in a very hacky way) 
. I will make a new release soon, Alongside optimizations to make the app less sluggish.
With those, it will reach the stage of good client for text-only notification-less chat!
(Other features will come later)
It seems Droidian have their own modified version of Firefox with some UI adaptation:
@DJac said in Firefox for Ubuntu Touch (uFirefox):
I found problem in parameters : the drop-down menus won’t open with tactile.
Other problem : the keyboard won’t open after i hide it once…
It will certainly improve a lot with Mir2.x
Also in the mean time, for the keyboard problems I have done some work on the keyboard for Signal UT, and will do some further for Min browser. I have also found some improvements on how the Gtk/X11 applications run in general, and uFirefox could probably benefit a lot from it. I've had a call about that for uWolf with @chromiumos-guy .
@DJac said in Firefox for Ubuntu Touch (uFirefox):
because it works on Mobian, is it possible to adapt a .deb application in .click ?
Normally yes! But what do you mean by "it runs", because Firefox also runs on Ubuntu Touch doesn't it? The main problem is no running, but how well the UI is adapted to mobile screen.
If Mozilla published a version of Firefox for Linux but with an interface for small screens very similar to the one for Android it would be awesome, and we would be able to port it to Ubuntu Touch easily (especially after Mir2.x is released but even before).
Hi,
Just wanted to mention that a nice and easy addition to Ubuntu touch would be wifi captive portal via RFC 8910 and RFC 8908.
It is actually very simple:
1- When you get a DHCP lease in the wifi interface look for option 114
2- If there is a URL in option 114 it's an API, just make a simple HTTP GET request on this URL (no parameters or header)
3- The result will be a json, if it contains "captive"="true" and has an "user-portal-url" field then we should just open this "user-portal-url" in the browser and it will allow the user to authenticate to the captive portal and use the wifi!
Really I think that's any easy addition, I may try to contribute this inside the OS when I have time.
Ps: Adding a simple script in /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ to do that should do the trick I guess.
Nice but only works in QML, for example I can't use that in Signal UT. It might be ok for Kaidan though! Is it possible to fetch the keyboard normal height for the device in terminal?
@alaskalinuxuser Do you know that you can calculate keyboard size with the formula in this file?
height: fullScreenItem.height * (fullScreenItem.landscape ? fullScreenItem.tablet ? UI.tabletKeyboardHeightLandscape
: UI.phoneKeyboardHeightLandscape
: fullScreenItem.tablet ? UI.tabletKeyboardHeightPortrait
: UI.phoneKeyboardHeightPortrait)
+ wordRibbon.height + borderTop.height
Unfortunately last update did not improve the situation.
Actually I have had the bug once again, and this time the interface holding the IP "ccmni0" was down, but forcing it up did not restore the connexion, I could ping the gateway but nothing more.
By the way I've just noticed something else strange in the logs:
sometimes I have 2 interfaces called "ccmni1" and "ccmni2". But sometimes I have "ccmni0" and "ccmni2" . I'm not sure if it is related to this bug or not, as both possibilities seem to be able to work if the interface has proper IP.