08-16-2020, 11:15 AM
(08-16-2020, 09:52 AM)amosbatto Wrote: I honestly don't think that Ubuntu Touch and Lomiri are viable options in the long term, due to the lack of code commits over the last 3 years. UBports is going to have to attract a lot of new committed volunteers to maintain their codebase, and I'm skeptical that it will happen. UBports has the right strategy in trying to get its packages into Debian and trying to create an active community, but it is going to be an uphill battle.
I think you are looking at the wrong repositories for Ubports. Their structure is a bit of a mess with stuff on Github and Gitlab, but they are far from inactive. Might not be pre-2017 Canonical levels of development, but it really isn't too bad.
But I agree in so far that the whole of Ubuntu Touch is too much for a small community project to manage, as it isn't only an UI, but a full mobile operating system quite diverged from standard GNU-Linux already (about half-way to something like Android IMHO).
But just looking at the UI Lomiri and recent efforts to get it in Debian and to run it on Arch/Manjaro makes me quite optimistic that it might not be necessary to maintain the full stack of Ubuntu Touch.
But as implied above the real elephant in the room is the qt / GTK issue. Yes there are some issues with qt, but it is designed to run well on mobile and embedded devices and there is already a good catalogue of mobile apps running on qt. GTK on the other hand isn't optimized for mobile AFAIK and the main developers (Red Hat) have not much stake/interest in mobile or embedded Linux. And I personally doubt that trying to get desktop GTK apps into a mobile form factor via libhandy is the right way forward.