Camera Notch interferes with notification bar at top of screen in Ubuntu Touch.

[mokmeister]

As above, the camera notch at the top of the screen of the Volla phone interferes with the notification bar at the top of the Ubuntu Touch display. The notification bar will need to be larger to avoid this.

[NeoTheThird]

Upstream discussion: ubports/ubuntu-touch#523

[McMarius11]

sadly the problem still exists :/

[GerryT11]

Besides the notch, also the rounded corners interferes with the notification bar. It is not possible to read the exact time. E.g. when it is 21:19, the "9" is not readible, but hidden behind the round corner of the screen.

[witty91]

Is the bar configurable? some padding on the left and right should at least take care of the rounded corners, then one would need to align some of the indicators to the left and some to the right -- So far I find the Ubuntu Touch Interface quite frustrating as it does not seem to be particularly customizable :/ -- To be fair, I have not taken too deep of a dive into it at this point.

[GerryT11]

In the UBPorts forum, there is a tweak available that fixes this issue: https://forums.ubports.com/post/44083

The author writes "this is a workaround until a universal and better solution for phones with a notch comes along."

[GerryT11]

Just to add: After some days of using the fix, I am very happy. It works perfectly and there is no regression over the original .qml files.

The only thing I needed to get used to is the following: Since the Volla Phone doesn't have a notification LED, the only sign that there is a notification is the green envelope in the menu bar. Since I tend to switch off Bluetooth, the BT icon is not shown anymore in the menu bar (makes the entire menu bar shorter). When doing so, the green envelope is hidden by the notch. The same would have happened with the switches for location and rotation. Is there maybe a setting in the .qml files that disables this kind of dynamic menu bar so that always all icons are shown?

[JamiKettunen]

For a perhaps simpler and more maintainable version of Sander's fix I've forked their repo and added a simple patching script :p

[gbdomubpkm]

@GerryT11 Personally, the envelope visibility problem has been solved by configuring with UTTT a grid unit of 22 (appropriate if rotation is locked).

[wurzer]

See new ticket #112