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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.
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!
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.
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.
First of, thank you so much for the development on Ubuntu Touch, it is becoming amazing!
I have a question about Wayland/Xmir apps (e.g uWolf, Signal-desktop, Snap apps) in the context of the upcoming Mir2.0
Will you consider implementing any of the following, to polish experience with Wayland apps:
Would you need/accept some help to do that?
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)
Ok in this version of whatsweb I have the notifications working without being unconfined, and it gets to the system panel! (Provided the app is not suspended in background)
https://github.com/pparent76/whatsweb/tree/82cd0c659af09bfad4315ba6c39e398d881451c3
@gpatel-fr said in French ID app interoperability.:
The recent decision about digital control is concerning troubling for a UT user
What are you talking about precisely?
Yes indeed, Thank you. I guess it's more probably related to the touch interface than the GPU. I'm just reusing the Min browser as is, and I don't plan to change/fix the way it works internally.
The most urgent thing to fix in both Min and Chromium would be the password input not working, that comes from Maliit gtk-input-context library. But for now I'm working more on SignalUT I'll see if I have a bit of time for Min a bit later.
Though for now, now alternative browser is a perfect solution because none of them supports copy and paste, so this is hard to open an url from other app with those browsers. Also webapps like whatsweb do require to use the older engine.
Now Qt is now also LGPL that allows to link proprietary software against it.
Also apparently the application will be soon published as opensource code:
https://france-identite.gouv.fr/securite-application/
I share your wariness, but let's not be too pessimistic either and withdraw into ourselves which would be a mistake.
@gpatel-fr said in Merezhyvo browser:
since both are based on a recent Chromium code base it would be surprising.
Though somehow the chromium app is based on chromium 127, while Min is based on Chromium 140. I don't know why he chose an older version.
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?
@domubpkm said in Merezhyvo browser:
The earth rotates in https://open-store.io/app/chromiumut.shapa but doesn't rotate in https://open-store.io/app/min.pparent @pparent
On my side the cube and the earth rotate similarly in the 2 browsers in https://get.webgl.org/ . You can also see "chrome://gpu" in the url bar.
Min and Chromium rely on X for now, so they can't be hardware accelerated with GlES. This is because with the old version of Mir the virtual keyboard is not supported outside of Qt. When Mir2.x is released, the plan is to migrate those ( and Signal Desktop and uWolf ) to Wayland so that they can be fully hardware accelerated, with virtual keyboard and more. But this might not be before another 6 month or more, I don't know how fast the system update will go.
This is very nice!
I could be a good idea to publish it to
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
So that those visuals can be used to illustrate Wikipedia articles about Ubuntu Touch.
It requires to publish it under a creative commons license, I don't know if you would agree to it?
@gpatel-fr said in Crazy stuff: sudo snap install signal-desktop:
Yes I ack that they are open because I think I understand why. The idea is here but solving it is another story because there is always an effort for every result and sometimes the result is not worth it.
Well I don't think you should be so pessimistic:
Of course the port might not happen overnight.
But did you did you read this?
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11546/organic-maps-on-ubuntu-touch/8
@bunt7 Contacted Alexander the Co-Founder of organic maps, and managed to convince him about the importance of Ubunt Touch, and he is now open to the idea of porting his app to Ubuntu Touch.
I'm also in direct contact with him, and he posted in the topic above, mentioning explicitly mobile Linux.
I'm not sure how much of work he would be willing to invest into this, but he is clearly open at least conceptually.