Hi
did not want to create a bug already now:
i am running whisperfish on volla phone with dualboot.
whisperfish consumes constantly 10%+ cpu. actually 12-13%.
am i the only one ?
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Interesting! Iām only seeing about 0-1%, but Iām not constantly monitoring. Running OpenRepos release, or master? Feel free to file a bug with your setup (possibly with a guesstimate of your database size), usually thatās a better channel than the forum to discuss. Also: does this happen right after starting, or after network switching, or ā¦ ?
For the starters, thanks for the great app! It is sleek and working properly.
I guess I found a bug (at least not mentioned here). I filed it in GitLab (my first one ever and without any logs). The issue is quite straightforward: if I change the ambience, Whisperfish does not change font colours etc. XA2 Ultra with Koli, I have had Whisperfish since 0.5 I guess.
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Thatās actually a known bug, but the developers donāt have a fix for it yet:
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Dang, didnāt notice.
No problem; closed yours as duplicate.
Iāll repeat it: please upvote the issues that apply to you, because I use the thumb-up-counter as priority list.
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PSA: OWS is tying off groupv1 support as fast as I am writing groupv2 support. I estimate a few days before groupv2 starts to work. Weāre very close now, the UUID-rework is mostly done.
The new Signal Desktop now shows a nag screen and hides the text input. Android and iOS clients might do the same. Weāll get there very soon now.
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I get
bash: zypper: not found
What do I do?
I just posted it on OpenRepos too: Try
pkcon install zypper
That should install zypper, and from there you should be able to continue.
Sorry for the inconvenience. This will not be necessary in SailfishOS 4.1 
With all the work you put into this, donāt be sorry. Thanks for the help! Seems to be working now.
Strange thing is that I had some messages on Signal before and thus some contacts, but there is nothing there now. Doesnāt seem to know that some of my contacts use Signal.
Cordially,
Martin
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If you did a clean install, everything starts from scratch indeed. Contact discovery is on the wish-list, but currently not (re)implemented.
https://github.com/Michael-F-Bryan/libsignal-service-rs/pull/52 and https://gitlab.com/rubdos/whisperfish/-/issues/133 if you want to upvote some stuff on Gitlab 
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My Android app doesnāt see any contacts either. Soā¦ No problem. Iāll try to get the ones I need some other way.
Iāll see if I can get access to upvote. Thanks!
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Update, with great news! I have implemented a very basic Group V2 system. Itās limited to ābeing addedā to groups (invitation donāt work, invite links donāt work, inviting others donāt work, etc), and of course talking in it.
Weāre doing the final clean-up, and I will then update OpenRepos with our first (and hopefully only) beta version.
To all that can and are willing to test: please join us on Matrix/IRC. If you know how to start an app from command line, know how to copy-paste logs from a console, and are not afraid of a bit of Linux trickery in case things go haywire (probability is low there), please come and join us on Matrix/IRC and give me a ping. Feedback is crucial here, if I release it to OpenRepos with many bugs, weāre going to face a lot of unnecessary bug reports.
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Great news! Thank you for your hard work!
I understand that weāll be able to join a Group V2. What about groups we are already in and that contacts convert in Group V2, would that work for us?
Yes. If your contacts get a message that you canāt be directly added to the v2-ified group and you need to be invited first, you can use Signal Desktop to accept the invitation.
Indeed, what @nthn says; either someone adds you to an existing group, or they have invited you. In the second case, you can accept the invitation from Signal Desktop. If you canāt do that for some reason, you can ask them to add you again (but that hasnāt been tested by anyone afaik).
If everything moves smoothly with the people that are currently testing, and when Iāve fixed the above four bugs, Iāll pull out beta.1 by the end of the week.
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Iāve just tagged 0.6.0-beta.1. Itās on OpenRepos by the time your read this! It is still beta quality software. Be aware that it may 
your 
, it could 
a 
, and send unwanted 
to your 
. Be prepared to submit bugs.
Highlights:
- A revamp of the whole UI. Itās seriously impressive, thanks to @ichthyosaurus
- Note that many new UI elements have been added, but some of them (reply/quote, notably) are not yet implemented.
- Linking with Signal Desktop (go to Settings and pull down)
- A revamp of the back-end database, which paves the path for implementing all the fancy new Signal features.
- Implementation of GroupV2. You can now be added to new-style groups; invitations do not yet work. Group upgrades also should work.
You can check whether your group is of the ānew typeā, by swiping to the group overview page (also revamped by @ichthyosaurus). Itāll show a little text on top to tell you about the upgrade status.
These are only the highlights, please do take a look on Openrepos to check the full (and huge) change log.
Some notes w.r.t. GroupV2
GroupV2 (ānew groupsā) is a huge beast. This beta version enables you to join these groups and talk in them. Ironically, thatās actually the easiest part of GroupV2. We had a lot of technical debt to pay off (inheritance from Whisperfish 0.5 and our ad-hoc rewrite: DB migrations and UUID-based sessions) before we could implement it all though. These are some important things to consider:
- You can only be added to a group. You cannot be invited, you cannot ājoinā a group or request to be joined.
- Groups can be updated, but:
- It may take a few minutes (up to a few hours) before your other group members see you as group-v2-compatible. Send them a direct message to kick off the process.
- When the group is updated, you may see āunknownā members (without phone number, but with a hexadecimal UUID). These people map on members that you miss, and it will resolve itself over time when these people start talking or send you a message. Speed up the process again by sending them a message.
- If the group is already updated, then you can be readded. Ask a group member in a direct message to add you to the group (not invite, but add). The old group will automatically be merged with the already upgraded group.
- You cannot at the current time alter your own profile. Iāve been egoistic though, and Iāve made my own profile hard-coded with a
as emoji, because SailfishOS, of course.
Once again, upvote the features that you want most on Gitlab, request new stuff, report bugs, and upvote bugs that affect you. Closing the feedback loop is important, keeping the loop tight reduces bugs and their impact on others.
Happy chatting!
Ruben
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There are now also people from KDE and beyond working on Whisperfish to make it available on Plasma, Ubuntu Touch, etc. Not that much related to Sailfish but more good news nonetheless 
.
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Right, I was 100% planning on putting that as a highlight, but glanced over that
More developers from more backgrounds for more features for all of us!
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I have used Whisperfish in the past and have now a big problemā¦how do I keep the history, when currently using the Signalās Android app? Is it somehow possible with a linked desktop client?