Proper Ubuntu Touch support

[project-cafe]

Cool ideas?

Since the built in store for Ubuntu Touch is quite limited, and Pi-Apps does work, just lacking proper scaling, maybe a version for Ubuntu Touch with a mobile friendly UI?

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[Botspot]

Could you attach a picture of the screen how it currently looks?
To my knowledge, none of us devs here have a Ubuntu Touch device on hand, so we may need to ask you to try a few things to see what works well on your system.

[project-cafe]

At the moment I cannot, as I don't have the device with me. Though when I get home from work I'm more than happy to get a screenshot and answer questions.

[Botspot]

That's perfectly fine. It's 2AM where I am, so I was about to go to sleep for the night anyway. Do it when you can, that's all we ask. (Some people open an issue and then never respond back)

[project-cafe]

I'll certainly be replying haha. And yeah, no problem!

[project-cafe]

Just got home from work, attached are the screenshots. One is portrait, one is landscape.

[Botspot]

@theofficialgman, what do you think are this user's options here?
On PiOs, I would recommend the user click on an easy preset that changes font size and DPI for large screens. Not sure what equivalents for that are available on Ubuntu.

@project-cafe, pi-apps is following your system-wide GTK settings, which should be changed. You should try to find a way to increase your font size, and DPI, and maybe even a percentage scaling - I'm not entirely sure.

But the small elements on screen are likely an issue with other GTK3 apps you try, so it's better to fix this system-wide than to try to make pi-apps do something special here.

[theofficialgman]

@theofficialgman, what do you think are this user's options here? On PiOs, I would recommend the user click on an easy preset that changes font size and DPI for large screens. Not sure what equivalents for that are available on Ubuntu.

@Botspot Ubuntu touch (a distant fork of the Unity desktop environment) isn't Ubuntu (gnome) and it is also not maintained by Canonical or sponsored by Canonical.

@project-cafe, pi-apps is following your system-wide GTK settings, which should be changed. You should try to find a way to increase your font size, and DPI, and maybe even a percentage scaling - I'm not entirely sure.

indeed, that should be corrected by ubuntu touch developers.

But the small elements on screen are likely an issue with other GTK3 apps you try, so it's better to fix this system-wide than to try to make pi-apps do something special here.

also true

@project-cafe this is a ubuntu touch bug. if it forces all applications to appear in fullscreen (which is what you have shown here), then it should also increase the font size or general scaling as appropriate. what you have shown here is that ubuntu touch disrespects an applications size requests and positioning and that will cause issues on many (realistically, all) desktop applications.

Pi-Apps is a primarily dual window application make for desktop software and uses xorg (or xwayland if on a wayland session) to place windows appropriately on the host display. That is not going to change anytime soon (or likely ever). If your DE cannot handle showing multiple floating windows at the size requested then that is a DE problem.

Marking as upstream bug and closing as not planned.

[Botspot]

@project-cafe, thank you still for reporting this, even though it ended up being something we cannot fix from our end.

If you do end up reporting this issue to Ubuntu Touch in a public place, please reply back here with a link so we can help add any clarification if they request it.