[Ubuntu-phone] Twinkle

2017-02-23 Thread Barry Drake
Hi ... I've installed Twinkle to my Ubuntu tablet. I'm the guy that built it. I cant find the app. I've no idea where the installer might have put it. A search doesn't find it, an I can't launch the installed app to try it. Can any of you here help me please? i put out this question on th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] great disappointment with my tablet

2016-07-18 Thread Barry Drake
On 18/07/16 12:40, Matthias Apitz wrote: this is not true; I reported my checks on June 9 to this list; i.e. you can check the archives of the list; Matthias, I'm really sorry. For a few weeks, I've been having troubles with my PC. It turned out to be the motherboard, and during the problems,

[Ubuntu-phone] The 'cooler'

2016-06-13 Thread Barry Drake
What is the purpose of the 'cooler' that pops up when I connect my tablet to my PC? I can't use it for file transfer, or for any operation that I've attempted so far. The phone has a far simpler interface that allows complete interaction with the entire phone ram and storage card. This is re

[Ubuntu-phone] click package

2016-06-09 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there . Two questions. I've built a click package for the for Twinkle sip softphone. Firstly, would someone care to test it, and make the additions to the package that would be required. Second question: At the moment, I'm having difficulty making the install the package. It comes

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] onscreen keyboard

2016-05-28 Thread Barry Drake
Hi ...  I have been using libreoffice on my table, and it's been OK. Now, how can I get the onscreen keyboard to come back?  Gedit gives me access to both. Kind regards, Barry. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscr

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Browser and Dekko constantly crashing

2016-05-28 Thread Barry Drake
> Hi ...  I've been using my bluetooth keyboard with libreoffice just > fine.  How can I get the onscreen keyboard to re-appear please? >  Gedit gives me access to both keyboards with no problem. Kind regards, Barry -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubu

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] My new tablet ...

2016-05-27 Thread Barry Drake
On Fri, 2016-05-27 at 07:51 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > is the keyboard visible there? Got it.  I just hadn't set up the bluetooth pairing properly.  Now it is working OK.  Is there any way of programming quich keys?  I use +1,2,3 quite a lot to play a particular tune quickly, and +x to kill

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] sip softphone

2016-05-21 Thread Barry Drake
On 20/05/16 08:16, Matthias Apitz wrote: I fetched the files and compiled it as explained in the Wiki in my chroot; all a matter of five minutes, and it starts as: phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ baresip baresip v0.4.18 Copyri

[Ubuntu-phone] sip softphone

2016-05-19 Thread Barry Drake
Hi ... I can't remember who I was talking to a while back, as I've been out of the country a while, and had only a netbook with me. Now I have access to my archives again, I see that I had success with Twinkle, as well as csipsimple. Twinkle is open source. I've looked at the source, and it'

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Launcher bar ......

2016-05-11 Thread Barry Drake
On 08/05/16 09:41, Barry Drake wrote: Hi My Ubuntu phone has a problem. I have to have many tries to get access to the launcher bar. It has taken me several minutes quite often. Hi there . The problem went away. Yesterday, the battery went flat, and I didn't have the phone

[Ubuntu-phone] Launcher bar ......

2016-05-08 Thread Barry Drake
Hi My Ubuntu phone has a problem. I have to have many tries to get access to the launcher bar. It has taken me several minutes quite often. If I have faulty hardware, I need to get onto BQ. Meantime, is there a config script that I can edit? The old 'Dodge' arrangement that used to ap

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] M10 tablet ...

2016-04-24 Thread Barry Drake
On 23/04/16 22:38, Mitchell Reese wrote: Libreoffice writer comes preinstalled. Currently you need a keyboard to use it - ths should change with the next update. There are other text writers in the store. Great tablet! I've looked through the Ubuntu website. One thing it doesn't tell me is w

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] M10 tablet ...

2016-04-23 Thread Barry Drake
On 23/04/16 19:58, Filip Dorosz wrote: LibreOffice suite is preinstalled on the device. :) Curiously, it doesn't appear on mine, and it's not on the Ubuntu store any more. I have a text editor - I suppose I could use that. As for a keyboard,I've got one that seems to work very well with the ph

[Ubuntu-phone] M10 tablet ...

2016-04-23 Thread Barry Drake
I've followed the thread about the M10 Tablet with great interest. I expect to be getting one. However, one App I will find essential will be a document writer, something like libreoffice writer. Are there plans for anything at the moment? Regards,Barry. -- http://barrydrake.co.nr/

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Apps I would like ....

2016-04-20 Thread Barry Drake
On 20/04/16 14:06, Michel Renon wrote: only one that I found to work properly was csipsimple. I really think you'd save a lot of trouble if you tried that one. I currently use it :-) It's in testing phase before a future deployment. I don't know if it's easy to port a java app to Ubuntu Phone.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Apps I would like ....

2016-04-20 Thread Barry Drake
On 20/04/16 11:52, Michel Renon wrote: These last months, I done a small comparison of several softphones for ubuntu, and I tested 'Yate client' [1] The interesting point is that it's written in Qt4, C++. So it may be a foundation of an Ubuntu Touch sip phone, just like Trojita and Dekko. Pleas

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Apps I would like ....

2016-04-20 Thread Barry Drake
On 20/04/16 11:48, Nekhelesh Ramananthan wrote: What's navmii? I am a bit confused here..are you says uNav is complicated to use or doesn't have features that navmii has? What upgrade? Are you referring to the upgrade to a newer version of uNav? navmii is a satnav for Android. This is the Andro

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Apps I would like ....

2016-04-20 Thread Barry Drake
On 20/04/16 10:47, Barry Drake wrote: Another one I'd like to see is a satnav. I'm not aware of an open source one, but I've written a message on the navmii q&a page asking if they will consider porting it. Thanks Alan I got Unav and tried it. It's nowher

[Ubuntu-phone] Apps I would like ....

2016-04-20 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there ... One essential phone app for me is a sip softphone. The one I've always used on Android is 'csipsimple'. It's open source, written in Java, so it ought to port to a click package OK. I'm not up to doing the job, but I really hope someone can take it up. Another one I'd like to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Very new to Ubuntu phone ...

2016-04-16 Thread Barry Drake
On 16/04/16 15:11, Eric Holmi wrote: I have had similar issues with some channels. Make sure you are using the current rc or stable channel. I know for a fact that those apps you mentioned do not work on hammerhead (I know its a port) for any vivid or utopic channels. The same goes for flo, so

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Very new to Ubuntu phone ...

2016-04-16 Thread Barry Drake
On 16/04/16 15:24, Alan Pope wrote: What's more plausible is you tried downloading the file while the store was being updated by a new store platform deployment. Happens now and then. Usually retrying a few mins later works. Cheers, I thought of that, and left it an hour before deleting the f

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Very new to Ubuntu phone ...

2016-04-16 Thread Barry Drake
On 16/04/16 14:30, Michael Zanetti wrote: At this point I'm not really sure if the issue you are facing is really the terminal/filemanager app. Sounds more like a store problem. I've managed to download the terminal and that works OK. I've now compiled the file-manager from source, and that wor

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Very new to Ubuntu phone ...

2016-04-16 Thread Barry Drake
On 16/04/16 11:35, Alan Pope wrote: I'd like to understand some more how File Manager and Terminal are broken for you but work fine for everyone else. Which phone do you have? Make/Model? What version of Ubuntu do you have on it? (System settings -> About phone. Could you maybe launch one of th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Very new to Ubuntu phone ...

2016-04-16 Thread Barry Drake
On 15/04/16 12:56, Michael Zanetti wrote: I've installed the file manager app. The version on the Ubuntu store doesn't work at all. I got the qml source code to see what it is supposed to do, and the app doesn't show anything on the screen like it should. It simply exits without doing anything

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Very new to Ubuntu phone ...

2016-04-15 Thread Barry Drake
On 15/04/16 12:56, Michael Zanetti wrote: Connecting the device to USB will give you MTP which indeed only exposes the Home folder excluding hidden folders. However, you can, if you want a terminal, enable Developer Mode in System-Settings -> About this device which will enable you to connect thr

[Ubuntu-phone] Very new to Ubuntu phone ...

2016-04-15 Thread Barry Drake
. If I plug the phone into a USB port, it shows only five directories: Documents, Pictures, etc. I can't get to anywhere else on the phone. Without a terminal, I can't really do a lot. Can anyone help please? Regards,Barry Drake -- http://barrydrake.co.nr/ -- Mai