@bam said in Dekko2 Developer Community Thread:

I agree with the importance of working email client.
Actually, I would like to try Ubuntu Touch, and the lack of tolerable email client stops me.

I think dekko is getting close to being usable on xenial, just a matter of fixing a couple of bugs still lingering with the build. It already works great using the current stable 15.04 (vivid) release so you can take that for a spin.

By the way, its curious what would cost to adopt https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Email? Can we run their programs easily?

I believe the email app like others are not open source by Jolla. Just the framework referenced above which dekko I believe is already using. Also given that Silica is also proprietary it like other Sailfish apps would have to be modified in order to work properly.

@doniks said in Dekko2 Developer Community Thread:

Created a branch using your build script:

https://gitlab.com/doniks/dekko/tree/building

Dekko should build, install and run now!

I took it for a spin on my laptop running 18.04 but it failed. (Issue #104 I'm presuming). I tried it on another machine I have with 16.04 still and it was able to build and install. Now onto the next step and try to get things functional.

@bam said in Dekko2 Developer Community Thread:

Thanks @thrrgilag for shedding light on this!
Still doubt if Email is closed source by Jolla (never heard of this before), but it's another topic I think..

If it's open source they aren't exactly making it easy to locate. I looked at the github and gitlab locations and no projects or source for the email app. I've checked this thread https://together.jolla.com/question/41724/sailfish-os-source-code-location/ which states that their apps are closed source. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

Another question: I would like to try Dekko 2 on Desktop. Is it possible now? If not, does somebody trying to achieve that?

It's available as a snap. I have it running on my laptop in fact. Instructions are on the website. https://www.dekkoproject.org/download/

@gnu-mobile said in Dekko2 Developer Community Thread:

Have you seen the prior discussion, https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core/ is probably still the library to go for mobile email.

Not sure it would make sense to swap out the libraries dekko already uses but could be worth spinning up a new project around a different library. There is certainly room for more than one email client on Ubuntu Touch. I myself have thought it might be fun to spin up an effort after we get dekko functional just to have something different.

@bam said in Dekko2 Developer Community Thread:

I agree with the importance of working email client.
Actually, I would like to try Ubuntu Touch, and the lack of tolerable email client stops me.

I think dekko is getting close to being usable on xenial, just a matter of fixing a couple of bugs still lingering with the build. It already works great using the current stable 15.04 (vivid) release so you can take that for a spin.

By the way, its curious what would cost to adopt https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Email? Can we run their programs easily?

I believe the email app like others are not open source by Jolla. Just the framework referenced above which dekko I believe is already using. Also given that Silica is also proprietary it like other Sailfish apps would have to be modified in order to work properly.

@doniks that's the annoying part a log doesn't get created, it fails as soon as it starts it seems.

I did load the 0.1.6-alpha0 click you tagged and that worked so I presume something is wrong still with my build environment. Tried blowing away the .build-armhf/ and rebuilding but I don't see anything obvious there. Guess I'll keep digging.

With the 0.1.6-alpha0 click, I was able to confirm that it does render plain text emails but not html ones. Guessing this is related to the existing browser issue where it crashes on certain sites maybe? And I do have one particular email that causes it to segfault outright. Don't know offhand what it in the messages is triggering that though. I was able to send an email though and notifications work so that's something.

@hummlbach said in Dekko2 Developer Community Thread:

short status:

• currently my builds are crashing - no clue yet why. Are your builds still working? (also after updating the docker image, keep the old one... ;))

I'm probably missing something obvious but my builds keep crashing, is it something to do with the docker image for building the package?

My docker skills are non-existent so I guess it's time I finally educate myself.

@hummlbach that was it! Thanks!

@doniks said in Dekko2 Developer Community Thread:

strange. I only have an 18.04 machine to test and it works there. also, since it's clickable (ie, docker) it should be mostly independent from what you have locally ....

I clearly got something knackered somewhere.

dekko/upstream/ubuntu-plugin/plugins/core/core.qbs:52:9 Dependency 'Qt.core' not found for product 'Contacts'.
Please create a Qt profile using the qbs-setup-qt tool if you haven't already done so.

That pretty much repeats for the other components until it bombs out.

@doniks said in Dekko2 Developer Community Thread:

merged to master now. Let me know how it goes!

Builds fine on my 16.04 machine, but not my 18.04 machine. I'm going to assume I have something sideways there that'll need to be sorted out at some point. But it builds!

Now to figure out why the account setup / settings don't work. I'm assuming that's the same point others are at as well?

@doniks said in Dekko2 Developer Community Thread:

Created a branch using your build script:

https://gitlab.com/doniks/dekko/tree/building

Dekko should build, install and run now!

I took it for a spin on my laptop running 18.04 but it failed. (Issue #104 I'm presuming). I tried it on another machine I have with 16.04 still and it was able to build and install. Now onto the next step and try to get things functional.