Title: Updating UT apps: uHome and Lomiri.action

Date: 2025-09-18 13:00

Author: alaskalinuxuser

Category: Phones

Tags: ubuntu touch, uhome, focal, update, xenial, lomiri

Slug: Updating UT apps: uHome and Lomiri.action

Status: published


As I continue on my journey to update about 200 Ubuntu Touch apps from Xenial to Focal, I once again released more apps on the [open-store](https://next.open-store.io). One of those updates was for an app called uHome, which is sort of like an old school Android launcher application, making your screen look like and somewhat behave like a regular launcher.

For more interesting, though, was a problem I ran into with updating the qml code of an old app called Blackjack. Typically, I run this command in the qml directory for each app I am updating, to update the old references to Ubuntu and change them to Lomiri, it looks like this:

`$ find . -type f -name '*.qml' -exec sed -i 's/Ubuntu/Lomiri/g' {} \; -ls`

Which so far had worked fairly well for me. Unfortunately, this app threw me a curve ball, as it errored out with:

`initialize.qml:7:1: module "Lomiri.Unity.Action" is not installed`

While all the other Ubuntu components got replaced directly with Lomiri, such as Ubuntu.Components.Themes becomes Ubuntu.Components.Themes, but it turns out that Ubuntu.Unity.Action was actually replaced with Lomiri.Action, and I didn't know that was the case. It took me a while to research, and finding nothing (probably because I was searching Lomiri.Unity.Action), I asked on the telegram group for app development, and Stuart Ter Veer pointed me in the right direction.

Either way, there are now more aps on the open-store! If you want to follow along with my journey, here is a little table of my progress so far:

| Apps | Numbers |

| ----------- | ----------- |

| Released on Open-Store | 53 |

| Pending release | 12 |

| Cannot Update | 89 |

| Remaining | 45 |

| Total | 199 |

| Percentage complete | 77.4% |

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