LWN: Comments on "Ubuntu Touch 1.0"

Ubuntu Touch 1.0

chipaca — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:07:16 +0000

About the indicators being very small targets: if you pull down from the top, you can move to the sides to select the one you want as you pull; you don't have to hit the right one initially. If you've already pulled one down, you can swipe the titlebar to the sides to switch.

About control in the terminal: long press for some of the more common ones. Otherwise there's a three long dashes menu top right you can use to switch keyboards.

HTH,

Ubuntu Touch 1.0

nye — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:40:01 +0000

>There are no soft keys

So how do you perform the actions that are bound to those keys on Android? Apologies if I've missed this in the fine article.

>Unfortunately, a dropped 3G data connection cannot be reestablished in the same session. A reboot is needed to reconnect

I couldn't be bothered reading after this point; this alone is enough to render the system completely useless and probably should have been mentioned first.
Sadly I'm not even slightly surprised that this is what Canonical considers 1.0.

Ubuntu Touch 1.0

rsidd — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 02:37:25 +0000

If a dropped 3G connection can't be reestablished without rebooting, it is not feature-complete as a basic smartphone! Canonical should have waited until phone functionality and internet were stable, and UI reasonably stable, before calling it 1.0. Apps and other features can wait, as you say.

I agree their progress on Mir is impressive. Any news on whether Xmir, and X applications, would work too? This would be particularly welcome on tablets which are usable as laptop-replacements. On Android the only usable X option is VNC.

Ubuntu Touch 1.0

asaun — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:46:01 +0000

Hi, article author here. I'm glad you brought up APT, a key component of any Debian-based system. I can confirm that Ubuntu Touch does an excellent implementation of apt-get moo. I could find neither an XMPP client nor a SIP client in the Ubuntu Touch Software Store.

Ubuntu Touch 1.0

asaun — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:27:18 +0000

Hi, article author here. I tried that, and volume down does not work as a Control button on the 1.0 image I'm using.

Ubuntu Touch 1.0

dashesy — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:42:58 +0000

Did you try volume-down key to see if it acts like a Control button?

Ubuntu Touch 1.0

debacle — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:27:34 +0000

Sounds great. I'm using CM10 or what on my Galaxy S with exclusively free apps from f-droid.org installed, but I'm still missing the super cow powers of APT. As soon as the need for a new phone arises, I will consider a Nexus phone with Ubuntu.

Is there already a working XMPP client with video/audio support, such as Empathy, running on Ubuntu Touch? Or a SIP client with video/audio, such as Ekiga?