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Acou_Bassook, im not sure if im doing something dumb here... xD trying to get the owncloud accounts in ubuntu touch to work, but all it does is tell me my password is incorrect (99.9% sure it isnt...)00:58
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helloHi there02:10
helloxamarin iOS Simulator for ubuntu02:15
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SWATI'm curious about the update policy of ubuntu touch. Currently (with Android) I'm often confronted with no updates from a vendor after a device has aged approximately 1.5 years. Custom ROMs will need to be built to spec and also often stop being updated after a short while. How's that with ubuntu touch? Is there a generic codebase, which is updated, and in turn will cause even older devices to receive p07:22
SWATroper updates? This would be great ;-)07:22
krowvubuntu touch needs android as a host07:26
krowvThe ubuntu part of ubuntu phone runs in lxc container on top of android07:27
r0kk3rzthis means kernel updates become tricky, which influences other things07:32
SWATkrowv, r0kk3rz: thanks, that's what I wanted to know :)07:33
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m0n5t3rdunno about this, on my phone android is put away in a container and ubuntu is the main system :P08:26
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Acou_BassSWAT: not sure if this helps answer your question, but im running a nexus 4 (if i remember correctly, it was one of the first device to have ubuntu touch ported to it) and i still get OTA updates without a hitch - ubuntu's components are seperate enough from all the android stuff that i guess updates dont break stuff as readily xD10:22
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dobeykrowv: you got that backward. android is the bit in the container, inside ubuntu. :)12:35
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jgdxseb128, hey, who worked on the Display part of unity control center? Or, who's the main contact for that panel?14:13
dobeyjgdx: mostly it's just the upstream gnome code i think14:14
dobeypopey: hey. do you own the terminal app? or know who does?14:17
popeydobey: wassup?14:19
dobeypopey: just wondering who to prod to see about bumping some bug priorities there14:19
popeythe problem is we just don't have anyone working on it14:20
dobeyoh :(14:20
popeymight have to speak nicely to bfiller to see if he has someone who can help14:20
dobeyhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-terminal-app/+bug/1627485 is especially annoying for us developers14:23
ubot5`Ubuntu bug 1627485 in Ubuntu Terminal App "Keyboard shortcuts starting from Ctrl is missed in Terminal App" [Undecided,Confirmed]14:23
popeydobey: tbh I think we need a geeky keyboard layout, Elleo may be able to help there14:24
popeywhich omits the bar above the keyboard, but just has everything in it that's missing like esc, ctrl, tab etc14:25
dobeypopey: this is with a hardware keyboard. i don't care as much about the toolbar things (prefer to hide all that if possible)14:25
Elleopopey: yeah, I had a chat with jouni about that a while back, once we finally get the move to skeyer finished I think we can potentially add some API to allow apps to define custom keyboards (since they'll effectively just be JSON layouts then)14:26
dobeyhmm, might need to file a "no way to remap caps lock to ctrl" bug for mir too14:26
dobeyElleo, popey: custom per-app layouts is all fine and dandy, but doesn't help with hardware integration :)14:27
Elleodobey: ah, right14:27
dobeythis bug is specifically about hw keyboards usage14:28
popeyah14:29
jgdxdobey, okay, thanks!14:29
dobeyjgdx: np. i think our forked version just adds a couple unity-specific things like the launcher placement and sticky edges14:29
Jakey3is it possible to run android apps on ubuntu phone?14:35
rap_haelI don't think so14:35
Jakey3im sure it would help with user adoption14:36
Jakey3for example my banking app i can use on android and iphone14:36
Jakey3would be nice if i could have that on ubuntu touch14:36
brunch875Guys, have you seen this? https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/14:37
mcphailJakey3: not possible, I'm afraid14:39
brunch875does utouch have any eyes on this 'progressive web app' thing?14:40
brunch875hopefully it becomes a new standard and "android apps" disappear altogether14:41
mcphailbrunch875: I've seen aquarius mention it, but I don't think he is online just now14:43
pmcgowanseems like it should "just work"14:43
dobeypmcgowan: ?14:43
brunch875it looks very promising14:43
dobeyeh, web apps leave way too much to be desired; even progressive ones14:44
patarrHello. Is there an Ubuntu-touch development channel?16:03
ogra_you are in it16:04
patarrAh, the Ubuntu Wiki stated it as a support channel.16:04
mcphailpatarr: there's also #ubuntu-app-devel16:05
patarrI wanted to pop in and ask some of the devs to see if something like Ubuntu Touch's Android LXC container was possible on a stock Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system16:05
patarrTo be more specific, docker instead of LXC16:06
popeyon a desktop? for what purpose?16:06
patarrpopey: to essentially repurpose an X86 small form factor machine into an Android machine, without having to install something like Android-x86 on it16:06
mcphailpatarr: I think the only android bits are the drivers, which you'd have on a normal install anyway16:08
patarrOut of curiosity, why does Ubuntu touch run android containerized? I know Sailfish OS does it so you can run APKs on their system. Is this also the intended purpose? Parusing the Ubuntu-touch website, I can't find any references to this kind of functionality16:08
ogra_sailfish doesnt do that16:08
ogra_the run aliendalvik *additionally*16:09
ogra_ubuntu could do that too16:09
ogra_that has nothing to do with the driver layer16:09
ogra_s/the run/they run/16:09
ogra_the lxc container is solely to run hardware bits ... and lxc was picked because you need to have communication on a very low level between the container content and the host OS to actually make proper use of the drivers16:10
ogra_i dont think that would be possible with docker16:10
ogra_we could have gone the sailfish way to mix-mash the two OSes but that ends up in a maintenance nightmare16:11
ogra_(and you will not have any more security than a plain android has with that approach, since all your android daemons and drivers run natively ion the host)16:12
patarrogra_: you're using Android for the drivers? I thought that you were booting Ubuntu's initrd? So how does that work?16:18
ogra_patarr, you boot to a headless ubuntu ... then spawn the container that initializes all the blob drivers, sets up shared sockets etc16:20
ogra_on a higher level you talk to the container via libhybris then16:20
ogra_that way you can use all android blobs, codecs and whatever but keep them safely in a sandbox, separate from your host ...16:21
ogra_that makes stuff like stagefright a lot less scary ;)16:23
ogra_indeed it comes with a small penalty, your boot gets slowed down by bringing up the minimal android16:24
ogra_that adds a few seconds16:25
patarrogra_: so it's starting to sound like my use-case will be quite difficult to implement.16:38
patarrProbably much more complicated than just installing the android-x86 project on the hardware...16:39
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Thomas_hello guys20:20
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Guest20439i search a sources of ubuntu touch for import on Blackberry Leap20:20
Guest20439can you link me an url ?20:21
dobeythere is no port for that device; see the Porting guide in the topic if you want to start porting20:22
Guest20439ok thanks dobey20:23
Mark__Hello does Ubuntu Touch work on an HTC Desire 510?22:16
aiyionwell23:00
aiyionthat was fast.23:00
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