Telegram-foss: Unable to login with QR code

[codebam]

According to the login page I should go to Settings -> Devices -> Scan QR to login using a QR code however the option is not present in the Telegram FOSS app

[r4sas]

That functional dropped with Google Vision support:
https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/commit/a46fb6d17cbd7c1523ed03d82b57b80a065784fa

[codebam]

Oh okay, thanks for the response

[trysten]

IMO this is still an issue. Users expect to use QR code login, and it would be nice to have for that reason. I'm not familiar with this project, so forgive me ignorance: Why? Why did you do a46fb6d? There's no explanation in the Changelog, issues, or the commit itself. Why is there no explanation?

Unless this is wont-fix, I think this issue should be reopened.

[Younes-L]

It's explained in the readme

Removal of non-FOSS, untrustworthy or suspicious binaries or source code and their functionality:

• Google Vision face detection and barcode scanning (Passport)

Also why would users expect to use QR code in tg-foss ?
Tg-foss is not the same as telegram app, and this is one of the differences

[zk-pre]

Assuming the QR-code is for logging in, I'd expect a foss replacement like the other features, as there are still maps and push notifications.

[jomo]

I suggest using zxing as a Google Vision replacement, or opening an external barcode scanning app. zxing seems to be included in TG-FOSS already, but apparently not used here?

The login QR codes use a URL of the format tg://login?token=<base64>. They can't be used by opening them as a link though, that just shows a warning (which is a good security measure and shouldn't be changed IMO)

[bingoxo]

please re-open the issue as a solution hasn't been implemented yet