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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
@Opolork Dual boot is possible on vollaphone, it's a feature provided by the manufacturer.
https://wiki.volla.online/index.php?title=MultiBoot_mode_in_VollaOS_for_VollaPhone_Quintus
And I guess privacy and freedom activists especially in the field of mobilephones, might have interest in being proactive and proposing solutions at the edge of privacy protection, rather than letting others propose solutions that are not so good for privacy.
If others want to do it, I'm willing to participate in developing such an app.
@lduboeuf said in Send notification locally from QT/C++/QML App.:
congrats for your perseverance. Now you are in the perfect situation to update or create a documentation
Thank's I will make better than this! 
I will update my QML notification module, and make a scripts that installs into an existing project all the prerequisites for it to work. Because there are some many tweaks to achieve it that it should not be done by a human, it's a loss of time, and the risk of mistake is too high. And anyway a script is always a more precise documentation on the actions to take than a human readable documentation.
My solution to the initial question:
Here is my QML module to handle local notifications:
https://github.com/pparent76/UbuntuTouch-qml-notify-module
It contains a script setup-project.sh to install automatically all the requirements into the app project.
Also this push request to the whatsweb app can be pretty informative:
https://github.com/alefnode/ubports-apps/pull/44
Especially this commit that corresponds to setting up the module with setup-project.sh:
https://github.com/alefnode/ubports-apps/pull/44/commits/81d08baba14ed941ca0c9b246d0df543b0a452a6
@pparent This is not a good idea to do.
No disrespect, but I think this is why I will choose pureOS in the long run, whenever I receive the phone and it is usable.
As users I want to be able to do the same things we can do on our computer, and be in control of our device, without being artificially limited, and not being sandboxed into a container. Otherwise I would use Android!
Hi,
I'm wondering how much of non-free software is there in UBports?
I guess that there must be at least non-free firmware blob in the kernel, as only few distributions remove them ( e.g Debian, Trisquel, Pureos ). Are there also non-free drivers in the kernel for some devices? Are there other non-free software unrelated to the kernel installed by default?
I think it would be most interesting to have a most precise view on this question, since the free and open-source software argument is the main advantage of UBports against Android.
Also note that Replicant maintans a list of "Freedom and privacy/security issues" for each of its targeted devices. None of them is completly free of issues.
Thank's in advance for your reply!
PIerre.
For anyone interested I made a small qml module, allowing desktop notifications with haptic feedback (vibration). Once again this is not optimal as the notification does not make its way to the ubuntu touch panel itself, and requires the app to be unconfined, but it is still very usable and usefull.
Thank's a lot for the answer and for your work!
Just wanted to mention that I discovered recently that it is possible to use signal on Ubports, through the app "molly FOSS" in waydroid, that can be linked as a secondary device to your main acount. It works pretty smoothly (although you don't get notifications for new messages) and it is even possible to do video calls with it which is beyond expectations. Of course end to end encryption is preserved.
@Fuseteam
You can always compile and test the current version of my repo:
https://github.com/pparent76/whatsweb
It already contains many improvements:
@Fuseteam Seems out of my scope, and having notifications only when the app is on to me is not a real drawback, since it allows to get notifications only when you want, and quit the app otherwise.
Also in my current version I made a tweak to hide the webview when the app is not in foreground to make sure it does not compute any visual stuff in the webview in background.
In practice with this the battery usage seem very limited.
My solution to the initial question:
Here is my QML module to handle local notifications:
https://github.com/pparent76/UbuntuTouch-qml-notify-module
It contains a script setup-project.sh to install automatically all the requirements into the app project.
Also this push request to the whatsweb app can be pretty informative:
https://github.com/alefnode/ubports-apps/pull/44
Especially this commit that corresponds to setting up the module with setup-project.sh:
https://github.com/alefnode/ubports-apps/pull/44/commits/81d08baba14ed941ca0c9b246d0df543b0a452a6
@ikoz said in Electron apps on Ubuntu Touch:
VSCodium
But how does it work? Does it uses Xmir? It requires to be unconfined, I see.
Currently I cannot compile and run natively any electron app, as an UT app that runs seamlessly right? In particular I cannot run natively Signal-Desktop, which would be a quite important addition to Ubuntu Touch.
In pratice I get this warning but nothing happens if you don't open it (at least for me). It has been months that I haven't opened the main device and everything works well.
The thing is that we can never hope to have a main device client that is reliable and with all features, if it is not official. Official support will not happen for UT in any forseeable future. And any unofficial client risks to end up in broken and unusable acvounts as it happened many times with axolotl.
And let's be realistic features like calls could possibly work one day with a customized build signal-desktop , but will likely never work with a custom client form scratch or based on signal-cli.
But you don't have to actively run it. Actually I use signal everyday only on signal-desktop and molly as a secondary device, and the main account is on an old device that I never turn on, it works well.
I would be more than happy to have a secondary device client. I would even say that I prefer a secondary device client. Because being an unofficial client to me this is to risky to let it handle the primary account, because if it fails it can also mess up my PC install ( as a secondary device )
Then you run the primary device in Waydroid or on a separate Android device.
What is the advantage to run it as a primary device?
Is there any chance we will be able to compile/run electron apps natively in Ubuntu Touch, with Mir2.0 through Wayland?
By the way I wonder if with Mir2.0 will be able to run electron apps through Wayland support, and therefore run directly signal-desktop natively in Ubuntu touch? (Without container)
If so we could simply adapt Signal-Desktop interface for mobile screen, and it could offer a nice solution for Signal on UT. Although it would require some maintenance because the release rate of singal-desktop is quite high.
Ps: And by the way I also plan to make this whatsapp application way more usable than it was. The version currently on my repo, already include some improvements that make the app significantly more fluid, polished and usable. But I will keep improving it progressively, and I plan to fix all the major functionalities offered by whatsapp web, that are currently broken on the app (starting with downloading/uploading photos/videos). And also I guess that future upgrade to Qt6 will also be a leap forward in regards of performance of this app, given that the webengine will be significantly more modern.
