Start with installing gimp package in your Libertine Container.
Screenshot is GIMP running in Libertine Container using the Color 48 theme to make icons usable on a mobile device - https://bitbucket.org/paynekj/paynekj-gimp-scripts/raw/2e8e87faf5eaaf6036e0d8b68ff9f6f37a3f0421/themes/Color-48.7z

In order to install this theme I had to extract the 7z archive on my computer and upload the folder to the phone. Then I had to go into home/phablet/cache/libertine-container/xenial/rootfs/usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes rename the "Default" theme folder as "Old Default" - and then paste in the Color 48 theme folder renamed as "Default" (because trying to change the theme from Gimp's gui would just crash it)

Also to get the GTK menus to be sized to be useable on phone it is important to: create a file named .Xdefaults in a text editor (tedit is a good Ubuntu Touch native one for this) with a single line Xft.dpi: 280 - or whatever other dpi value which you prefer. Save this to the home directory of your chroot environment - usually .local/share/libertine-container/user-data/xenial/ in your normal home directory.

You also still need to use an external bluetooth keyboard for GIMP on the phone in order to have the gui respond.

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Steve Berson

Given that Dekko2 was recently updated for the 2.x version from using the Oxide engine to the QtWebEngine - to the best of my knowledge no critical UT native apps are using Oxide anymore. Is there a timeline to remove Oxide support from UT (from my understanding, a step that will be necessary at some point in order to free up space in the UT image for future enhancements) - and is there a way to check whether our webapps will be effected by this? Am I correct in believing that any webapp made using Webapp Creators "Ogra container" will not work once Oxide support is removed - so that these webapps will have to be updated once the change is made? And is this change expected to be made in OTA-12, OTA-13 or later?

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Steve Berson

• What improvements and fixes for the Morph Browser are marked as "definitely will happen" for OTA-6? Biggest requests I have myself is to be able to sign into sites like Dropbox, and be able to upload files to various services via the browser itself.
• Any chance that camera zoom for the OnePlus One will get fixed in OTA-6 - or is this just a serious brickwall of an issue that will likely take much longer, if ever, to fix?
• Would UBports consider hosting crowd sourcing drives for specific native apps? E.g. on the Telegram channel there were two of us that were willing to put up $80 to help fund coding for a native Wire app - and I would be willing to donate $200 myself towards a native Lyft app. Seems to me if there was a place hosted on the UBports site where people could donate towards funding specific apps they desired - with any funds held in escrow by UBports itself - then greater funds could be raised, and the donors would have the confidence that their money would not be sent without a functional app getting delivered, and the coders would have the confidence that they would get all pledged monies as soon as they delivered the functional app.
• Has the UBports team received the Purism Librem 5 developer boards yet - and based on specs known so far, does it seem realistic that it will end up being a fully convergence capable device?

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Steve Berson

The following desktop apps are working ok in OTA12 via Libertine in my tests (meaning that they launch and can, with some work arounds and patience with the clunkiness of their guis when used on mobile devices, generally made to function), and all offer some amount of functionality that is not necessarily already found with UT native apps.
For apps that much more suited for desktop, like AbiWord and GIMP, I would suggest using them with an external keyboard/mouse/trackpad and/or external display.

abiword - word processor
file-roller - archive manager
evince - pdf viewer
firefox - web browser
gimp - image editor
gthumb - image gallery & editor
gedit - text editor
medit - text editor
gtick - metronome for musicians
youtube-dl - command line YouTube video downloader - run in Terminal app
hardinfo - system information & benchmark tester
xournal - note taking via touch, stylus or text; pdf annotator
mypaint - illustration - note it is somewhat laggy and crash prone though
easytag - id3 tag editor for audio files
p7zip-full - command line archive manager for 7zip files
p7zip-rar' - command line archive manager for rar files
mpv - media player - open files into it from the File Manager app

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Steve Berson

Some screen shots

There is a functional native Signal client (Axolotl) now in the Open Store, and there is a beta for TELEports available that allows the UT device to initiate an encrypted "secret chat" for Telegram, and there is a clunky but functional webapp available for Wire - so there is in fact a number of ways to send and receive encrypted messages from a UT device currently.

Also - if one needs to have end to end encrypted notes, the Standard Notes UT webapp allows to access these online with an option for them to be password protected.

But it would be great if encrypting our home folders was made much easier to do in the future - hopefully a developer will take on this task at some point.

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Steve Berson

@MarkG_108 - yeah - uNav is a bit clunky in usage in my experience - but I think offline maps for Pure Maps should end up happening within a month or two - I've been really encouraged by how well it works, and it was just ported to Ubuntu Touch a couple weeks ago.

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Steve Berson

@Aury88 said in New badge for Yumi?:

here some iterations..!

...my screen is filling with friendship...
Here the link to the svg:
https://mega.nz/#!UN0SDA7J!njORZM45c7EuA5DotnT8eW3KKdTD36mN9HL_iYIsmEo

I really like the bottom logo on this one a lot, far superior to the others in my opinion.

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Steve Berson

@dobey said in New Launcher, edge channel.:

@TotalSonic said in New Launcher, edge channel.:

I think the ultimate plan (or at least one possible one) is to allow people to place widgets and launchers on the wallpaper background as if it was a "home" (same as if it was a non-vanilla-Gnome-3 desktop) - but that this will take time to code and the need to streamline the code and image size to what can be easily maintained makes the first step of getting rid of Scopes one that will have to happen in order to make any forward progress from there.

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Steve Berson

It has been an idea that a few people have mentioned. There is currently no plan to do it (nor do I think should there be, as it's not a convergent feature).

I don't see why allowing icons and widgets on a "home" background (whether mobile, tablet, or desktop) would be consodered "not a convergent feature" when that feature is an integral part of most OS's in all 3 form factors. I do agree that coding that feature to be truly convergent would likely be difficult, and as such should not be a priority for the UBports team.

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Steve Berson

I think the ultimate plan (or at least one possible one) is to allow people to place widgets and launchers on the wallpaper background as if it was a "home" (same as if it was a non-vanilla-Gnome-3 desktop) - but that this will take time to code and the need to streamline the code and image size to what can be easily maintained makes the first step of getting rid of Scopes one that will have to happen in order to make any forward progress from there.

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Steve Berson

@Thatoo - just a note that there is already a PR for including vcf import and export directly in the Contacts app - there is a click available for the beta you can test at https://t.me/ubports_qa_team/35166 -
(it has worked well on my tests of it for armhf on the Meizu Pro 5.)

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Steve Berson

Just tested it and changing resolution actually works fine using gthumb even on a phone without any peripherals connected.

The best native UT app for image editing currently is InstantPho - https://open-store.io/app/instantpho.dobey

Otherwise, in a Libertine container gthumb or gimp can change resolution, but best to have an external keyboard and trackpad hooked up while using them.

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Steve Berson

Xournal works ok in Libertine, but it is a bit clunky in UT currently. The native UT apps, Pluma and FingerPaint to me also lack resolution and flexibility to be that good for note taking as well.

Slightly off topic of this forum - but Xournal works well on 10" and above x86 tablets - I've used both standard Ubuntu (with Gnome3 DE), and customized Xubuntu (with Onboard osk and Touchegg multi-touch-gesture configurator packages installed) to run it on a number of Intel based tablets that originally came with Windows (e.g. Dell 7275, Dell 7140, Samsung Slate 7) - lots of options for these "2 in 1"'s that work decently with Linux can be found on the second hand market for reasonable prices, including the Microsoft Surface and Lenovo X1 tablet lines.
Besides Xournal, another nice stylus note taking app for standard Linux is "Write" from
http://www.styluslabs.com/

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Steve Berson

Not to be mean about it, but I'd say your advice and request are absolutely terrible. There is not really any available device that would benefit from using the outdated and unsupported UT OS, and it would be a serious waste of time to any of the UT developers to try and accommodate this as well. UT native apps running on Xenial will give you way better of a tablet experience than Libertine on Vivid ever will.
If running desktop Linux apps on a tablet is the priority then the very best way to do it is by using a standard Linux distro on an x86 tablet - I have done this a lot myself - generally running standard Ubuntu with Gnome 3 DE, or by using Xubuntu with the Onboard osk, and Touchegg multi-touch gesture configuration app - and I've set this up on a Dell 7140, Dell 7275, and Samsung Slate 7. The experience on the Dell 7140 has been best out of all these.

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Steve Berson

Sounds like some FUD to me. I hope you are aware of the GNU GPL which makes it impossible for them to ever "buy every other version."

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Steve Berson

Document Viewer in the OpenStore will allow you to view spreadsheet files. If you have a Dropbox account it will display and allow editing of spreadsheet files nicely online. Also - you could install gnumeric in a Libertine container, although its gui is not optimal for mobile devices.

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Steve Berson

@manland - working well on Meizu Pro 5 (armhf) RC channel. Thank you for your work on this!

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Steve Berson

@3T_Ed - Dekko 2 is working well for me, although it has a few bugs still. Sometimes you need to restart it after a display error, but otherwise if you take time to make sure the settings for each account are correct it will work well.

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Steve Berson

Thank you so much for taking this project on, and your work on it! Will test later.

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Steve Berson