UPI Payments

@Pirate Praveen That's the thing: inconsistent and hard to discover is catastrophic UI. Just add a copy/paste buttons where useful. People are used to it from websites and it works well.

Edit: it's also the kind of thing where you can take a couple of minutes of free time and make a real difference in usability.

@Guido For Dino at least, its partly because it was originally designed for desktops and mobile support is still a work in progress. But for USSD in GNOME Calls, adding the buttons directly in the app would make sense as it is primarily targeted at phones/touch screens. But keyboard doing it would already solve this to a large extend.

Opened issue for qr scanner (https://github.com/SecUSo/privacy-friendly-qr-scanner/issues/324 as flx1 camera is broken)

LibreFin project has reverse engineered the UPI protocol and demonstrated successful payment using command line https://fossunited.org/c/indiafoss/2025/cfp/c1ujjkgd9c but we still need to make a graphical application.

@Pirate Praveen this is on my to-do list. The code is yet to be actually released though.

@Badri Sunderarajan would you consider starting it with *99# already? When librefin is available, you can add it as another option. Parts like QR reading, upi id parsing will be common anyway. It can offer two backends, one with ussd and another with libreinfra.

We can submit a grant request to FOSS United.

@Pirate Praveen yep I can do that! Would help me (finally) get started with GTK development.

I won't be able to focus properly until at least May due to having other projects lined up. That said, let me check and maybe if other people are interested we can work together. Having a grant would also increase motivation to finish fast 😜

Let me try to block off Sunday for writing grant proposals—this and the Prāv one