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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,
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?
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,
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.
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?
Craziest thing:
The calls are partially working out of the box!!!!
Which means we can certainly get calls working one day!
Well not sure, I've never done this process. It's possible that if the process uses a popup that requires subsurface, that it does not work properly! But other than that I don't really see why it wouldn't work, bur you never know.
@gpatel-fr said in More Apps Please!!:
also for keyboard thats an easy fix you need to include a cache file look to ufirefox/uwolf for example on how to get gtk apps to use maliitI thought first of compliing a Ubuntu touch driver for each Kde pack but it's not obvious to learn to compile various stuff for UT, especially at things that no one other than a core dev would touch. It would be a cleaner fix though
Honestly I don't know why maliit/inputcontext-gtk is not included by default in the system, so that it does not have to be included in the apps. Although the problem is that this module has some bugs and I had to make some very hacky patches to get it to work properly with SignalUT and Min Browser (spoiler: and soon Rocket.Chat ).
But hopefully this won't be necessary to use this module when we can switch to Wayland with Mir2.x .
I'm not sure what exactly this would look like, or where this would display. If you have a screenshot it could help!
@moem Maybe you could edit the first post to mention that "there is currently no native, working Signal client for UT" is no longer up-to-date. Because your topic often appears on the first results, when people are looking for "Signal Ubuntu Touch", and they might not read until the end.
Yes I know abut uFirefox.
Distributions like Mobian, or postmarketOS, don't seem to bother much about trademark concerns, in this situation.
Great that you could make it to stable release, I hope it will suit you!
@gpatel-fr said in More Apps Please!!:
@pparent said in More Apps Please!!:
I made a pull request to correct that
Unsure what you wanted to correct, I hope it's not to publish Chrome on the Ubuntu Touch store, Google may object to that
No the fact that you cannot input passwords with the keyboard on Chromium for UT
@tigermoth said in More Apps Please!!:
Firefox.
You can try uWolf, it's a version of libreWolf a fork of Firefox.
I think it might be a good idea to publish Firefox-esr itself in the openstore, somehow it's not the case yet.
@tigermoth said in More Apps Please!!:
Anyway I tried Chromium, typing issue nothing prints. Chrome is more versatile for video compatibility, or may be Firefox.
Yes well I made a pull request to correct that I hope the app maintainer will publish an update soon!
About VLC I plan to try to port it when VLC 4.x is released because it seems to have an interface that is more mobile friendly.
About Chrome there is already Chromium in the Openstore, can it suit you, or do you want google Chrome for a specific reason? ( I guess most people if the choose not to use escape google/Android world, it might not be to install Google Chrome later in Ubuntu Touch)
For email did you try dekko2 ? (For me works well!)
From my point of view, I think you should consider, that many apps you mention have an interface designed for desktop, that would just not be pleasant to use on a phone screen, or even usable at all, if they were ported as is, this is the main reason they are no in the openstore. As a matter of fact many that you cite are installable through snap, or libertine, or other methods, and you could try that, but you will see they are of little use on a phone screen.
