Porting to a newer Pixel device than the 3a would be nice, wouldn't it? Well, as it happens to be: I have a Google Pixel 6 laying around that I'm willing to donate to a serious dev who wants to port Ubuntu Touch to it. Is anyone interested? Let me know.

@Rondarius Ah, cool! In that case I'm definitely going to become a patron! Thanks.

@potet But how do I make a back-up when UT is not booting? That's my question.

@AppLee said in Busy, crowded app overview; Can Ubuntu Touch be converted to an iPhone interface?:

@Cycle-Maniac said in Busy, crowded app overview; Can Ubuntu Touch be converted to an iPhone interface?:

I am definitely not an Apple fanboy. But as nice and intuitive as iOS (and macOS) work; It really is unbeatable.

Sorry to disagree, but I think you've mistaken intuitive and "used to". :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Because never in a thousand years would I have figured about a diagonal draw...

UI design of a smartphone is not just about "graphical design", you also have to deal with technical constraints (that can be overcome with time and money) and mostly subjectivity.
Everyone is different and everyone find great things in both iOS and Android, but no one has not a complaint and wish something was different or more like X or Y.

Having the drawer less crowded means less apps visible at a glance hence scrolling or typing action.
I thin @kugiigi is right about masking the launcher when the drawer is expended but the transition might be weird...
I thing if the drawer had the same spacing between icons you might feel it is a bit more calming and pleasing (I feel it could be an answer to your issue) but many will probably say that before they had all their favorite apps right there and now they have to scroll...

So really not a simple question.
If you come up with a mockup and if someone is willing to try and implement it, I guess we can have a poll and decide to mainstream it or make it available to tweak this out.

Exactly! I love intuitive designs too and I too am a normal user (and 31 years old, so not an old geezer!), but iOS is not intuitive for me (and Android is even worse). Ubuntu Touch is way more intuitive to me, including the app drawer. I love the app drawer and launcher so much as they currently are, so please don't change that! Or if it's changed, at least provide an option to keep the current workflow for people like me.

@messayisto said in Device donation:

@Vistaus Maybe you ask in the device section of the forum or contact the porter?

Maybe, but it's not just the porter that would benefit. UBports devs could use it for other development and testing purposes too.

@rocket2nfinity said in Recover files while stuck in bootloop?:

@Vistaus If you can boot TWRP, you can back it up to an SD or pull it that way. But, only if there isn't anything wrong with memory/emmc.

That turned out to be the solution! Thank you so, so much!

@TheVancedGamer You're not invasive at all! I'm sorry to hear your FP4 died. If you're itching to do UT development again, then I'm happy to donate you the Pixel 3a. Send me a DM with your address and what not.

@TheVancedGamer said in Device donation:

@Vistaus Sent you a DM

Sorry, I now see that you messaged me 5 hours ago. I didn't receive a notification. I have answered you.

@arubislander True. I meant that I want to use the Volla Tablet as a laptop most of the time, and for that I'd rather have mouse input, but the physical keys will still be very welcomed.

@arubislander Shoot. I hope it does make it before the stable release of 24.04, though, else the Volla Keyboard will not be all that useful, as the trackpad cannot be used. I'll also ask Volla where they submitted the fix.

@MrT10001 Yeah, that didn't solve the issue. But like I said: upgrading to OTA-10 did. And to 24.04 too, btw.

Unfortunately, the bug where the mouse cursor can't reach the right half of the screen in landscape mode still isn't fixed. Volla said it was fixed in 24.04, in time for delivery of their keyboards with trackpads that are about to ship in the next few weeks. Did that fix not make it in this RC?

@arubislander said in Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 Beta 1 is now available for testing:

@Vistaus Just follow the instructions as they are written in the OP. I assume it will get you on the RC for 24.04. But I haven't followed them myself, so I don't know for sure. It will get you on the version of 24.04 that was made available for testing in any case.

Thanks, it worked fine - I'm on 24.04 now!

said in Pixelated font on Volla Tablet:

With UT on my phones, fonts are crisp. On the Volla Tablet, however, you can almost see the pixels. I think either something's wrong with the font rendering or the wrong font (perhaps Ubuntu-L?) is used for display. I already tried to reinstall the Ubuntu fonts package several times, and multiple reboots, all to no avail. Is this a bug or can I easily fix this myself somehow?

I think it was a bug in 20.04 OTA-9, as upgrading to the OTA-10 RC has mostly resolved my issue. It could be a little bit sharper still, but it's waaaaay better than on OTA-9.

@arubislander Thanks. So I have to enable the RC channel on the Volla Tablet rather than the dev channel mentioned in the OP? Will do that, then! (After upgrading to 20.04 OTA-10, of course.)

With UT on my phones, fonts are crisp. On the Volla Tablet, however, you can almost see the pixels. I think either something's wrong with the font rendering or the wrong font (perhaps Ubuntu-L?) is used for display. I already tried to reinstall the Ubuntu fonts package several times, and multiple reboots, all to no avail. Is this a bug or can I easily fix this myself somehow?

This may be a dumb question, but you're only talking about phones. Is the 24.04 beta also ready for the Volla Tablet? In other words: can I test it on the tablet?

Porting to a newer Pixel device than the 3a would be nice, wouldn't it? Well, as it happens to be: I have a Google Pixel 6 laying around that I'm willing to donate to a serious dev who wants to port Ubuntu Touch to it. Is anyone interested? Let me know.