A Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine that is actually understandable.
Bla bla bla⌠No, root ability to uninstall system apps is nowhere near anything âdefaultâ.
You are talking about a solution that implies geeky stuff like root, adb and magisk, come on, I thought /e/ was aiming for non technical people
- More apps in the app store
- More fluid activity switch. Something in the current launcher (or somewhere else?) slows the system down. I can feel the difference between the Fairphone OS vs. /e/ on my Fairphone 3+.
- Update of the Notes app
- More regular updates of the system apps from their upstream.
Thanks for acknowledging the freedom you want to have is actually already there, you just donât like the currently possible way to use it. (No root and Magisk required for this, by the way.)
Iâm all for uninstalling system Apps to become more simple, too.
Iâm pretty certain not everybody who uninstalled a system App would identify themselves as technical people. Empowering needs people who want to be empowered .
Hi @ralxx!
@pmoodyâs installation instructions for Ivona-TTS here are absolutely excellent and the app is strongly recommended if you havenât tried it already.
I just wish this info wasnât buried 14 replies deep- it deserves wider promotion on the forum IMO.
Good luck!
- Separate projects for the core OS and the UI changes.
e-core
ande-UI
. Users choose at install time whether to usee-UI
or the default Lineage OS UI - No forked apps in
e-core
unless needed for privacy - Use existing app stores (F-Droid, Aurora Store) in
e-core
- New and forked apps and UI changes go in
e-UI
, can be installed, updated and maintained frome-core
(e.g using F-Droid)
Thanks @mcmd, I had read that post back then when it was published. And tried it. Really great. But I wish such a solution (or another one) for /e/ out of the box - for all those who are not tweakers but âjustâ users.
Understood @ralxx.
While Iâm not completely certain, I believe that version of the Ivona engine is freeware. If correct, I know thatâs not true FOSS per se, but as I understand it, neither is Magic Earth and the /e/OS âbundlesâ it. Might be worth pursuing whether or not the engine could come pre-installed in addition to e-Speak: that would make life simpler for users for sure. Just a thought.
Hi,
it is not against you, but please stop consider âAuroraâ as a store,
it is a alternative to the âGogol playâ store because it is an âusurpatorâ client (coud work anonymly, without personal gogol account)
thatâs why âungogoled android OSâ need a âredistributed appsâ store (where some âend usersâ share their apps) if they want to use âgogol distributed appsâ,
in case of cleanapk, we donât know them, but we trust them.
Itâs where I get my apps that arenât in F-Droid. Itâs as much a âstoreâ (in the sense of a store where you go to get stuff) as Apps or F-Droid or Play Store. I could use the phrase âapp installation and update appâ, but âstoreâ is shorter
I totally agree with that : having read tons of post complaining about app Y, stating that app X is âbetterâ, asking where to find app Z or remove e-apps , I think that e-core with store apps is a very good idea.
Nevertheless, I enjoy stock /e/ apps, they fit my needs. But I understand that the actual monolithic model may not be suitable for everyone.
BTW âAurora Storeâ is the name of the app, so one is quite right to call it ⌠a âstoreâ
Do you want to raise the feature request or shall I?
You came first with the idea, so be my guest !
I trust also everybody i donât knowâŚ
You are right, i had better said : we donât know THEIR NAMES / IDENTITY, but of course, we know them and trust our friends.
Remember the " Penguin Liberation Front â repo for linux .RPM, or some of the âanonymousâ hacktions.
In case of cleanapk, it is curated by a small closed group of person who guarantee the integrity of apk, not everyone like âaptoidâ store.
I actually donât use Apps because i found the Aurora more comfortable, but politicaly, i prefer the âhook-sharerâ Apps than the âlier-stolerâ Aurora
Hello.
e-Apps is a good idea but unfortunately doesnât work fine most of time. With unofficial first and now GSI, I made a lot of clean install and each time encountered issues, without using backup.
I think (but may be wrong) maintaining such a store fully and daily up to date is a bigger amount of work than the e-staff can really do, working hard with OS and devicesâ support.
Now, I first âuninstallâ e-apps, then use F-Droid for a few nomber of added apps and Aurora front-end just in Shelter (two apps only). But Iâm a âLight is right, less is bestâ boy
OK, if you deinstall all /e/ Apps and uses alternatives Apps, whats the different to Lineage-for microG
Why using /e/? Whats then the added value?
then immediately lineage for microg with a nextcloud instance
no, no, I uninstall the e-appstore, not all e-appsâŚ
Iâm enjoying trying this out this morning. Indeed it works like a charm and is super easy uninstalling and reinstalling.
If you root your device with magisk, you can also use the de-bloater from F-Droid. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.sunilpaulmathew.debloater