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 the current "promoted/supported devices" are now all discontinued and at least 4 years old (with the Nexus 5 now 7 years old) - doesn't it make sense to change both the website as well as support priorities to a new set of "promoted devices"? Seems to me Volla Phone, PinePhone, OnePlus 3/3T, Sony Xperia X series, PineTab, perhaps Google Pixel 3A, and whatever Xiaomi/Redmi device is looking to be easiest to fully support, would all make sense to change the focuses to as far as what is "promoted"- with the understanding that some devices (e.g. PinePhone, PineTab) need a bit more development before placing into this category.

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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

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

I will note that for those that like a slightly cleaner look for their lock screen, that you can disable the circle thingy that displays usage stats by going into Settings and then Security & Privacy and unchecking Stats on welcome screen.

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Steve Berson

Excellent news! Thanks so much for your work on this! So, just to check, camera and bluetooth are currently not working?

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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

@adlinux - yes, in retesting I am now getting the same results as you!! - not sure what is going on with this - but it is concerning.

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Steve Berson

New ports of Android devices are community driven - that is, someone who owns the device decides to take on the time and effort to port it - rather than the UBports core dev team ever making plans towards any particular devices (aside from ones from sponsors and company driven projects, such as Pine and Volla).
As such - if you wish to see this devive ported it will much more likely happen if you undertake the attempt yourself - info on how to do this is at
http://docs.halium.org/en/latest/porting/first-steps.html
and
http://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/Intro.html
Also http://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/halium_9/Halium_9_GSI_porting.html

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Steve Berson

@applee - thanks, I was unaware that Anbox apps have no access to gps locaton, but that makes sense.
Anyway - there are in fact some webapps that can access location if permission is granted to it, e.g. the Here maps webapp, as well as the Lyft webapp that I made with Webapp Creator (that can at least hail a ride, but does not have most of the other features that the Android app enables).

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Steve Berson

@stanwood - what impacts to battery life have you seen by installing Anbox?
I have yet to try Anbox for any UT device I have, but the only Android apps I would want to install are things like Simpletask (for which there are a number of UT native options available for though) as well as ridesharing apps (like Lyft and Uber, but which I don't know whether would work in Anbox) - but I am doubtful the impact on battery life would be worth installing Anbox for me.

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Steve Berson

UT community developer Rudi Timmermans posted a nice guide on how to get Anbox working with Volla on Gitlab here -
https://gitlab.com/Xray2000/Anbox-on-Volla-Phone

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Steve Berson

The fact that it only has 1gb of RAM would make this perform sluggishly with Ubuntu Touch.
You would need to port this as well, info on how to do this is at http://docs.halium.org/en/latest/porting/first-steps.html
and
http://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/Intro.html

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Steve Berson

I want to mention that for folks who do install Firefox-esr 78, if you go to update the packages in your Libertine container it is important to set Firefox to "hold" on any updates, so you don't end up replacing your Firefox with a current but unusable version.

The Terminal commands to enable this are:
$ libertine-container-manager exec -i xenial -c /bin/bash

# apt-mark hold firefox

To undo this hold enter:
# apt-mark unhold firefox

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Steve Berson

Tested on Volla I can add:

• LG G Watch R (smartwatch) - syncing nicely, including notifications, via "Telescope" app

Tested on Volla, Meizu Pro 5, OnePlus One:

• iClever BK-05 (folding keyboard)
• iClever BK-08 (folding keyboard / touchpad)

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Steve Berson

@domubpkm - fwiw - with latest OTA-16 RC's I no longer need to occasionally restart in order to maintain the ability to send and receive calls on my Volla.

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Steve Berson

@roguerascal - they only have one model out now - it is a rebranded Gigaset GS290 with nicer styling and a company behind it that is developing and supporting 3 operating systems for it - https://volla.online

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Steve Berson