Ability to share ambiences

answered 2017-07-02 11:38:19 +0300

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updated 2017-07-03 23:36:12 +0300

If it's user created, you can send the image you used from one device to another and make ambience again from that image. As for ambience that installs with TOH, they reside in /usr/share/ambience/*, the files you find there are everything required to make that package work on another device, but you would have to manually copy it all across to the other device.

Don't hold your breath for Jolla to make a new solution, it won't be happening any time soon, if ever. Ambience is a toy and not a very good one at that. We are still waiting for anything to happen, as Jaako Roppola says "Ambience can be so much more" <----that was 4 years ago (this was with regard to adding settings/features to ambiences, much like the Silent Ambience which of course, silences your phone.......but where is the development?, there isn't, plus the Ambience backend is closed source, making development even more difficult.

Also, you could install rpmrebuild from Openrepos and rebuild the package (i.e ambience-allblack) and bluetooth package to other device, install new ambience.rpm and use, not exactly convenient nor is it a solution, but is a suitable workaround for the time being.

rpmrebuild is not specific to Sailfish, but works well regardless. The author of the version on Openrepos says he has tinkered to make his RPM suitable for Sailfish, but I've found other versions not destined for sailfish but were already in .noarch.rpm format, they installed and worked fine.