The results are in from the voting!
We have reached the close of the first (ever?) 'Community favourite' awards.

As a quick recap, we had two categories and many nominations. It looks like people were very hungry to acknowledge the work done on UT.
For the community favourite app we had 15 nominees.

OSM scout server
uWolf
Morph QT6
futify
dekko
Sapot
Keeweb
Podcat
RockWork
OpenStore
Waydroid
LogViewer
CinnyUT
TELEports
uNav

For the community favourite developer we had 13 nominees.

@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)
@lduboeuf (Lionel Duboeuf)
@alan_g (Alan Griffiths)
@vlad-nirky (Vlad Nirki)
@Fuseteam (Tobiyo Kuujikai)
@kugiigi (Kugi Eusebio)
@CiberSheep (Joan CiberSheep)
@thevancedgamer (Muhammad)
@peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
@danfro (Daniel Frost)
@jonius (Jonathan Zeidler)
(Brian Douglass)
@mariogrip (Marius Gripsgård)

For the community favourite app:
In second place, with 22% of the votes ... The Openstore
The first place and the winner ... is actually a tie with second place ... with 22% of the votes
TELEports.

For the community favourite developer:
In second place, with 22% of the votes ... @peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
The first place and the winner,
... with 25% of the votes.
@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to all the community for keeping UT up and running.
I will be in touch soon with details on how to get your prize.

I thought it might be useful to have a list of snaps that run well on UT.
I will slowly populate this list as I try things.
Tested an FP5
focal 24.04 24.04-1.3

News

• Now testing on 24.04-1.3
• Snaps now do notifications!!
• You can snaps via App Centre with functional password prompting!!

No success
installed, seems to work, further testing needed
Works in desktop mode, fully functional
CLI tool (so it is convergent-ish)
Convergent(-almost)
My favourites

Issues with snaps on phone:
- No OSK
- Scaling issues
- audio issues

New entries
Based on 24.04-1.3
app center
alpaca
cozy
firefox
hardware sensor indicator
amberol
kate
gnome-weather

Typst
itrue-jellyfin
zellij : requires '''--classic''' (24.04)
midnight-rebooter
gdu
yazi
git-confined
htop
micro : requires '''--classic'''
rsync
ladder
deepseek-r1 (painfully slow)
tldr
Terminal-parrot
nano-strict
clera
ponysay
asciiaquarium
clipboard
fzf
procs

gnome-hitori
local send
evince
blanket :
supertux
alienshooter

keepassxc
alacritty: requires '''--classic'''
vivaldi (24.04)
Chromium (24.04)
Jabref
Inkscape
libreoffice
Deepseek
xournal++
konsole: requires '''--classic'''
sublime-tex (24.04)
pinta
brave
leafpad
micropolis
dolphin
Gimp

snapcraft
clickable
duplicity
magnus
openscad
audacity
audacious
crypton
transmission
LXD
ollama
darktable
cheese
cherrytree
Dolphin emulator

zetsubougames-wandernomore
angelfish
steam
minetest
gnome-nibbles
gnome-chess
tuxfishing
supertuxkart
komikku
ubports-installer
opentyrian
axolotl
sensor monitor
gnome-contacts
gnome-mahjongg
gnome-sudoku
gnome-calculator
gnome-clocks
emoj
pydoro
frog
tux-paint
ghostty : requires '''--classic'''
opencv-demo-web
mission center
fingerpaint
celluloid
zenity

Nominations are now open for the UBports Community Awards.
Since this is the first run at having these awards, I thought
its best to keep things a bit simple.
Here are the final two categories:

• Community favourite app
• Community favourite developer

Everyone can suggest up to two nominees for each category.
Nominations close on the evening of 1 Dec.
Leave your suggestions below.

For each nomination, indicate the category, nominee and a short paragraph about why you are nominating this person/app.

Prize: A large pizza for each category.

Could you add a segment to the 'show' where you give an example of how to get things done on UT?

I think many people need to figure out ways to work in UT since it is quite different from android but many of these ideas don't make their way to the 'general UT public'.

For example, there was a discussion about getting uwolf or firefox to sync passwords. This is a great alternative to the non-functioning password manager apps and makes life a lot easier.
Or maybe demo how to use ghostcloud.

I think these 'FYI' segments can help ease the transition for many people.

Ideas for Categories:

• Biggest OS bug squashed
• Favourite new app in the open store
• Community's favourite developer
• Favourite new app concept ( in the app store)
• Best new port

Update
Since this is the first run at having these awards, I thought
its best to keep things a bit simple.
Here are the final two categories:

• Community favourite app
• Community favourite developer

I would like to ask that you do a quick announcement for the 'Community Awards'.
Things have developed quite well with a lot of input from other community members.
This year we will have only two categories:

• Community favourite app
• Community favourite developer

The prize for each category:

• a large pizza (details TBD).
• a webpage mentioning your award and why your won (details TBD).

Nominations are open until the evening of 1 Dec. Each forum member can nominate two nominees for each category (here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11623/call-for-nominations-for-the-ubports-community-awards?_=1764437371137 )

The current nominees are as follows:

Community favourite app

• OSM scout server
• uWolf
• Morph QT6
• futify
• dekko
• Sapot
• Keeweb
• Podcat
• RockWork
• Teleports
• OpenStore
• Waydroid
• LogViewer

Community favourite developer

@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)
@lduboeuf (Lionel Duboeuf)
@alan_g (Alan Griffiths)
@vlad-nirky (Vlad Nirki)
@Fuseteam (Tobiyo Kuujikai)
@kugiigi (Kugi Eusebio)
@CiberSheep (Joan CiberSheep)
@thevancedgamer (Muhammad)
@peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
@danfro (Daniel Frost)
@jonius (Jonathan Zeidler)

Prizes

Any one who wants to contribute to the prizes or make them more interesting is very very welcome to let us know what they have in mind.

@keneda said in This Forum's software is horrible! :

BTW if you can't do some things here it's because your reputation is not already high enough.

I couldnt find how to increase reputation... There isnt any links on the landing page to guide new users on how use the platforw.

@moem said in This Forum's software is horrible! :

You build up reputation by posting and getting upvotes on your posts.

I couldn't post because my reputation was too low.

@wally sorry, misread the title!

Are there any formal instructions for setting up snap support?

@O.o. Thanks for sharing. Its great to see what others have done. The am/pm trick is a neat way to deal with the corners!

@messayisto I have not had any issues with it thus far.

I did not need to try again. When I opened the app all my google emails had arrived.

I am organising a UBport Community Awards for the developers.

If you have suggestions for award categories, please let me know!

Current ideas for Categories:

• Biggest OS bug squashed
• Favourite new app in the open store
• Community's favourite developer
• Favourite new app concept ( in the app store)

Details about the planning can be found here:
https://forums.ubports.com/post/90354

@lsitongia with the installer you can install UT again and choose 'do NOT wipe data'. I had to do the same. it went smoothly. I lost no data, nothing broke.

It would be good to have some clear advice to non-developer on how we can encourage work on stuff that we felt was needed.
Maybe the OS development should not be guided by ad-hoc money waving from the community, but if we wanted an app to be ported or if we needed a bug to be dealt with, it would be great to know how we can nudge some development in that direction.

This should not be an alternative to supporting UBports directly but it could be a way to supplement app development.

Maybe the first question should be: What is the UBports developers choice of platform for bug bounties?
How should be let the developers know that we want something addressed and we (the community) will organise the bounty.

@johndoe
about the webpage and graphics; That would be greatly appreciated.
I will try to find out how one gets a page added to the UBports website.

@gpatel-fr I could not downgrade. The FP provided installer did not work so I went from A14 directly.

I have two monitors at work and I recently learnt about daisy chaining with DP connections so I though to try with UT and my phone.
It almost works! With no effort at all, I got my screen to be mirrored on both monitors but I could not find a setting to allow for side-by-side displays.
Is there any support for this?

UT 24.04 on FP5

@johndoe
Yes, nominations. Voting happens later.