Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. One larger blocks are the Phosh 0.45 release, also reviews took a considerable amount of time. From the fun side debugging bananui and coming up with a fix in phoc as well as setting up a small GSM network using osmocom to test more Cell Broadcast thingies were likely the most fun parts.

phosh

• Release 0.45~beta1, 0.45~rc1, 0.45.0
• Don't hide player when track is stopped (MR) - helps with e.g. Shortwave
• Fetch cover art via http (MR)
• Update CI images (MR)
• Robustify symbol file generation (MR)
• Handle cutouts in the indicators area (MR)
• Reduce flicker when opening overview (MR)
• Select less noisy default background (MR)

phoc

• Release 0.45~beta1, 0.45~rc1, 0.45.0
• Add support for ext-foreign-toplevel-v1 (MR)
• Keep wlroots-0.19.x in shape and add support for ext-image-copy-capture-v1 (MR)
• Fix geometry with scale when rendering to a buffer (MR)
• Allow to tweak log domains at runtime (MR)
• Print more useful information on startup (MR)
• Provide PID of toplevel for phosh (MR)
• Improve detection for hardware keyboards (MR) (mostly to help bananui)
• Make tests a bit more flexible (MR)
• Use wlr_damage_ring_rotate_buffer (MR). Another prep for 0.19.x.
• Support wp-alpha-modifier-v1 protocol (MR)

phosh-osk-stub

• Release 0.45~rc1, 0.45.0

phosh-tour

• Release 0.45~rc1, 0.45.0
• Maintenance (MR, MR)

phosh-mobile-settings

• Release 0.45~rc1, 0.45.0

pfs

• Add common checks and check meson files (MR)

libphosh-rs

• Update for libphosh 0.45
• Release 0.0.6

meta-phosh

• Add common dot files and job to check meson formatting (MR)
• Add l10n modules to string freeze announcement (based on suggestion by Alexandre Franke) (MR)
• Bring over mk-gitlab-rel and improve it for alpha, beta, RCs (MR)

libcmatrix

• Release 0.3.0

Debian

• Upload phoc 0.45~beta1, 0.45~rc1, 0.45.0
• Upload phosh 0.45~beta1, 0.45~rc1, 0.45.0
• Uplaod feedbackd 0.7.0
• Upload xdg-desktop-portal-phosh 0.45.0
• Upload phosh-tour 0.45~rc1, 0.45.0
• Upload phosh-osk-stub 0.45~rc1, 0.45.0
• Upload phosh-mobile-settings 0.45~rc1, 0.45.0
• phosh: Fix dependencies of library dev package (MR) (and add a test)
• Update libphosh-rs to 0.0.6 (MR)
• Update iio-sensor-proxy to 3.6 (MR)
• Backport qbootctl RDONLY patch (MR) to make generating the boot image more robust
• libssc: Update to 0.2.1 (MR)
• dom-tools: Write errors to stderr (MR)
• dom-tools: Use underscored version to drop the branch ~ (MR)
• libmbim: Upload 1.31.6 to experimental (MR)
• ModemManager: Upload 1.23.12 to experimental (MR)

gmobile

• data: Add display-panel for Furilabs FLX1 (MR)

feedbackd

• Release 0.7.0)

grim

• Allow to force screen capture protocol (MR)

Wayland protocols

• Address multiple rounds of review comments in the xdg-occlusion (now xdg-cutouts) protocol (MR)

g4music

• Set prefs parent (MR)

wlroots

• Backport touch up fix to 0.18 (MR)

qbootctl

• Don't recreate all partitions on read operations (MR)

bananui-shell

• Check for keyboard caps before using them (Patch, issue)

libssc

• Allow for python3 as interpreter as well (MR)
• Don't leak unprefixed symbols into ABI (MR)
• Improve info on test failures (MR)
• Support mutiarch when loading libqrtr (MR)

ModemManager

• Cell Broadcast: Allow to set channel list via API (MR)

Waycheck

• Add Phosh's protocols (MR)

Bug reports

• Support haptic feedback on Linux in Firefox (Bug)
• Get pmOS to boot again on Nokia 2780 (Bug)

Reviews

This is not code by me but reviews on other peoples code. The list is a slightly incomplete. Thanks for the contributions!

• Debian: qcom-phone-utils rework (MR)
• Simplify ui files (MR) - partially merged
• calls: Implement ussd interface for ofono (MR)
• chatty: Build docs using gi-docgen (MR)
• chatty: Search related improvements (MR)
• chatty: Fix crash on stuck SMS removal (MR)
• feedbackd: stop flash when "prefer flash" is disabled (MR) - merged
• gmobile: Support for nothingphone notch (MR)
• iio-sensor-proxy: polkit for compass (MR) - merged
• libcmatrix: Improved error code (MR) - merged
• libcmatrix: Load room members is current (MR) - merged
• libcmatrix: Start 0.0.4 cycle (MR) - merged
• libhosh-rs: Update to 0.45~rc1 (MR) - merged
• libphosh-rs: Update to reduced API surface (MR) - merged
• phoc: Use color-rect for shields: (MR) - merged
• phoc: unresponsive toplevel state (MR)
• phoc: view: Don't multiply by scale in get_geometry_default (MR)
• phoc: render: Fix subsurface scaling when rendering to buffer (MR)
• phoc: render: Avoid rendering textures with alpha set to zero (MR)
• phoc: Render a spinner on output shield (MR)
• phosh: Manage libpohsh API version separately (MR) - merged
• phosh: Prepare container APIs for GTK4 (MR)
• phosh: Reduce API surface further (MR) - merged
• phosh: Simplify UI files for GTK4 migration (MR) - merged
• phosh: Simplify gvc-channel bar (MR) - merged
• phosh: Simplify parent lookup (MR) - merged
• phosh: Split out private header for LF (MR) - merged
• phosh: Use symbols file for libphosh (MR) - merged
• phosh: stylesheet: Improve legibility of app grid and top bar (MR)
• several mobile-broadband-provider-info updates under (MR) - mostly merged

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Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. Mostly focused on quality of life improvements in phosh and cleaning up and improving phoc this time around (including catching up with wlroots git) but some improvements for other things like phosh-osk-stub happened on the side line too.

phosh

• Fix crash when switching bitween some fractional scales (MR)
• Make layer surface code more flexible and fade in system modal dialogs (MR)
• Auto close quick setting status pages (MR)
• Cleanup and undraft the captive portal (MR). If this lands we have another 2y old MR out of the way.
• Brush up monitor scaling quick setting originally submitted by Adam Honse (MR)
• Fix modem interface regression introduced by the rework for cell broadcast (MR)
• Fill background with primary color (MR), also ensures fallback
• Release Phosh 0.44.1 (MR)
• Don't forget to update background on dark uri changes (MR) when background can't be loaded
• Fix crash in mpris widget (MR)
• Reduce restyling on state changes (MR)
• Dev Doc updates (MR)
• Drop long unused widget (MR)
• Improve Wi-Fi portal notification handling (MR)
• Support sound capability on the notification server (MR)
• Use systemd-cat to launch session (MR)

phoc

• layer-surface: Don't arrange surfaces / set focus on finalize (MR
• Update to wlroots 0.18.2 and some cleanups (MR)
• Run scan-build in CI and fix detected issues (MR)
• Simplify XWayland handling in PhocDesktop (MR)
• Handle xdg's suspended surface state (in phone mode) (MR)
• Invalidate layer shell list less often and take opacity into account for visibility check (MR)
• Unbreak touch point debugging / deduplicate code (MR)
• Release Phoc 0.44.1 (MR)
• Fix initial alpha == 0.0 (MR)
• Fix leak in output-shield and allow to set easing function (MR)
• Smoothen mode/scale/orientation changes (MR)
• Fix thumbnail rendering of floating windows (MR)
• Fix damage tracking debugging (MR)
• Allow to toggle some debugging flags at runtime (MR)
• Fix subsurface damage tracking regression caused by the wlroots 0.18.x switch (MR)
• Catch up with wlroots 0.19.x again (MR)
• Backport the sensible bits of the 0.19.x branch to main to smoothen the next upgrade (MR)
• Fix touch drag (MR) - basically the wlroots patch from below.
• Make PhocViewChild less of a snow flake (MR)
• Fix popup reposition damage (MR)
• Draft: Deduplicate the View and LayerSurface subsurface/popup handling (MR). Needs 625 to land first.
• popup: Try harder to find a suitable output (MR)

phosh-osk-stub

• Let long press on shift toggle CapsLock (MR)
• Add minimal GObject for application (MR). Lets merge the bits of the 1y old MR that still apply.
• Unbrush 2y old MR to get rid of more globals (MR)
• Update Unicode data, thanks GTK devs! (MR)

xdg-desktop-portal-phosh

• Use GTK 4.17's portal avoidance (MR)

phosh-recipes

• Bring back weekly snapshots by switching to a faster runner
• Use xz compression (MR)

libcmatrix

• Use Authorization header: (MR)

phrog

• Ship example greetd config (MR)

Debian

• Update libphosh-rs (MR)
• Update phoc to new git snapshot (MR)
• Upload phosh 0.44.1)
• Backport touch fix (MR)

git-buildpackage

• Make it work with Python 3.13, sigh (MR)
• Typo fixes (MR)
• Release 0.9.37 (MR)
• Run codespell in CI (MR)

livi

• Suspend video stream when toplevel is suspende (MR) - saves battery
• Release 0.3.1 (MR)

feedbackd

• Allow events to override the sound feedback with custom sounds (MR). Allows desktop/mobile shells like phosh to honour application prefs for notifications.

Wayland protocols

• Propose notch/cuttout support protocol MR)

Wlroots

• Allow to access opacity boolean (MR)
• Unbreak drag and drop via touch (MR)

Bug reports

• udev regression affecting gmobile (Bug). Many thanks to Yu Watanabe for providing the fix so quickly

Reviews

This is not code by me but reviews on other peoples code. The list is incomplete, but I hope to improve on this in the upcoming months. Thanks for the contributions!

• phosh: Uninstall action (MR) - merged
• phosh: Add home-enabled property (MR) - merged
• phosh: Emergency prefs dialog improvements (MR) - merged
• phosh: Bump gtk versions in ui file (MR - merged
• phosh: Show week number (MR) - merged
• phosh: compile schemas for plugins (MR) - merged
• phosh: Reduce API surface (MR)
• phosh: Use AdwEntryRow (MR) - merged
• phosh-osk-stub: Il layout additions (MR) - merged
• phosh-mobile-settings: Use 'meson setup' in CI (MR) - merged
• phosh-tour autostart (MR)
• livi flatpak update (MR) - merged
• debian: phosh: Recommend kbd (MR) - merged
• iio-sensor-proxy libssc support (MR)
• git-buildpackage: Spelling fixes (MR) - merged
• git-buildpackage: DEP spelling consistency (MR) - merged
• git-buildpackage: Add branch layout diagram (MR) - merged

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Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. The larger blocks are the Phosh 0.44 release and landing the initial Cell Broadcast support in phosh. The rest is all just small bits of bug, fallout/regression fixing here and there.

phosh

• Fix notification regression and release 0.43.1 (MR), 0.43.1
• Make notifiction banner take less vertical space (MR)
• Allow to unfullscreen apps from the overview (MR)
• Fix a leak in the tests tripping up our ASAN CI (MR)
• Use consistent prefix and portal name (MR). This allows us to properly name the portal
• Undraft the initial Cell Broadcast implementation (MR)
• Brush up and merge the 1y old background in overview MR (MR)
• Monitor background file changes (MR)
• Some style improvements prompted by the above MR plus some other cleanups (MR)
• Release 0.44~rc1 and 0.44.0
• Make new headers introduced in 0.44 private (MR)
• Port prefs to GtkFileDialog (so we use the adaptive portal) (MR)
• Make fake clock available in regular shell (MR)
• Enable/disable autoconnect on wwan connection, otherwise they come back on after e.g. resume (MR)
• Toggle top-bar transparency (MR)
• Create thumbnails for screenshots (MR)

phoc

• Don't crash on NULL output when using foreign-toplevel to fullscreen (MR)
• Allow to force shell-reveal for debugging (MR)
• Release 0.44~rc1 and 0.44.0
• Don't forget to reset fullscreen state when tiling (MR)

phosh-mobile-settings

• Release 0.44~rc1 and 0.44.0

libphosh-rs

• Update for 0.44~rc1 (MR)
• Release 0.0.5 (MR)

phosh-osk-stub

• Release 0.44~rc1
• Drop experimental status, update screenshots and release 0.44.0

phosh-tour

• Release 0.44.0

pfs

• Allow to sort by modification time (MR)
• Allow to activate via <return> (MR)
• Load thumbnails if they exist (MR)
• Store sort-mode (MR)
• Tweak file name display a bit (MR)

xdg-desktop-portal-phosh

• Use phosh as portal name rather than pmp (which is confusing to users) (MR)
• Update pfs subproject and adjust packaging (MR)
• Release 0.44~rc1 and 0.44.0
• Implement r/o mode (MR)

phog

• Unbreak with recent phoc (MR)

Debian

• Make xdg-desktop-portal-phosh a dependency (MR) as Recommends: isn't enough for existing installations.
• Backport upstream notification fix (MR)
• xdg-desktop-portal-phosh (0.44~rc1, 0.44.0)
• phosh-osk-stub 0.44~rc1, 0.44.0
• phosh 0.44~rc1, 0.44.0
• phosh-mobile-settings 0.44~rc1, 0.44.0
• phoc 0.44~rc1, 0.44.0
• phoc: backport wlroots 0.18 support (MR)
• phosh-tour 0.44.0
• meta-phosh: Bump versions (MR)
• wlroots 0.18.2 (MR)

git-buildpackage

• Fix ci (MR)
• Move upsteam ci to separate pipeline and run type checks and collect test results (MR)
• pristine-tar: handle upstream-signatures like import-orig (MR
• Run tests before salsa-ci pipeline and enable component tests (MR)
• Run tests that need network access in CI, use ci-faire, etc (MR)
• Bundle pipes module to avoid deprecation (MR)
• Release 0.9.36
• Fix --export-dir regression (MR)

wlr-randr

• Document --toggle (MR

python-dbusmock

• Add mock for cell broadcast messages (MR)

livi

• Use AdwAboutDialog (MR)
• Release 0.3.0 (MR)

Chatty

• Fix crash when saving attachments in Matrix chats (MR)

feedbackd

• Add vibrate() API to allow e.g.games more haptic control (MR). This could also be used in browser to implement the vibration API in e.g. Firefox.
• Release 0.6.0 (MR)

libadwaita

• Drop superfluous "makes" (MR)

phosh-ev

• Add ci: (MR)

Reviews

This is not code by me but reviews on other peoples code. The list is incomplete, but I hope to improve on this in the upcoming months. Thanks for the contributions!

• phosh: Switch to AdwPreferencesDialog (MR)
• phosh: Visual effect when swiping notification (MR)
• phosh: Notification banner slide up animation (MR)
• phosh: Slide down notifications when adding a new one (MR)
• libphosh-rs: License symlinks (MR)
• phosh-ev: Support for Nissan (MR) (got merged)
• Debian: libvirt update (enabling nftables) (MR) (got merged)
• Debian: libvirt update (disabling nftables again (among other things) (MR)
• git-buildpackage: uscan --download-vesion (MR
• git-buildpackage: manpage improvements (MR)
• git-buildpackage: improve intro (MR)
• git-buildpackage: Add import-ref to gbp(1) ([MR}(https://salsa.debian.org/agx/git-buildpackage/-/merge_requests/31))

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Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. The larger blocks are the Phosh 0.43 release, the initial file chooser portal, phosh-osk-stub now handling digit, number, phone and PIN input purpose via special layouts as well as Phoc mostly catching up with wlroots 0.18 and the current development version targeting 0.19.

phosh

• When taking a screenshot via keybinding or power button long press save screenshots to clipboard and disk (MR)
• Robustify Screenshot CI job (MR)
• Update CI pipeline (MR)
• Fix notifications banners that aren't tall enough not being shown (MR). Another 4y old bug hopefully out of the way.
• Add rfkill mock and docs (MR). Useful for HKS testing.
• Release 0.43~rc1 and 0.43
• Drop libsoup workaround (MR)
• Ensure notification only takes its actual height (MR)

phoc

• Move wlroots 0.18 update forward (MR). Needs a bit more work before we can make it default.
• Catch up with wlroots development branch (MR) allowing us to test current wlroots again.
• Some of the above already applies to main so schedule it for 0.44 (MR)

phosh-mobile-settings

• Don't mark release notes as translatable to save some i18n effort (MR)
• Release 0.43~rc1 and 0.43.0

libphosh-rs

• Adjust to API change (MR)
• Release 0.0.4 on crates.io

phosh-osk-stub

• Add layouts for PIN, number and phone input purpose (MR)
• Release 0.43~rc1
• Ensure translation get picked up, various cleanups and release 0.43.0 (MR)
• Make desktop file match app-id (MR)

phosh-tour

• Fix typo and reduce number of strings to translate (MR)
• Add translator comments (MR). This, the above and additional fixes in p-m-s were prompted by i18n feedback from Alexandre Franke, thanks a lot!
• Release 0.43.0

pfs

• Initial version of the adaptive file chooser dialog using gtk-rs. See demo.
• Allow to activate via double click (for non-touch use) (MR)

xdg-desktop-portal-phosh

• Use pfs to provide a file chooser portal (MR)

meta-phosh

• Slightly improve point release handling (MR)
• Improve string freeze announcements and add phosh-tour (MR)

Debian

• Upload Phosh 0.43.0~rc1 and 0.43.0 (MR, MR, MR, MR, MR, MR, MR, MR, MR, MR, MR)
• meta-phosh: Add Recommend: for xdg-desktop-portal-phosh (MR)
• phosh-osk-data got accepted, create repo, brush up packaging and upload to unstable (MR
• phosh-osk-stub: Recommend data packager (MR
• Phosh: drop reverts (MR)
• varnam-schemes: Fix autopkgtest (MR)
• varnam-schemes: Improve packaging (MR)
• Prepare govarnam 1.9.1 (MR)

Calls

• ussd: Set input purpose and switch to AdwDialog (MR, Screenshot)

libcall-ui

• Drop libhandy leftover (MR)

git-buildpackage

• Improve docs and cleanup markdown (MR)
• Mention gbp push in intro (MR)
• Use application instead of productname entities to improve reading flow (MR)

wlroots

• Drop mention of wlr_renderer_begin_with_buffer (MR)

python-dbusmock

• Add mock for gsd-rfkill (MR)

xdg-spec

• Sync notification categories with the portal spec (MR)
• Add categories for SMS (MR)
• Add a pubdate so it's clear the specs aren't stale (MR) (got fixed in a different and better way, thanks Matthias!)

ashpd

• Allow to set filters in file chooser portal demo (MR)

govarnam

• Robustify file generation (MR)

varnam-schemes

• Unbreak tests on non intel/amd architectures (e.g. arm64) (MR)

Reviews

This is not code by me but reviews I did on other peoples code. The list is incomplete, but I hope to improve on this in the upcoming months. Thanks for the contributions!

• flathub: livi runtime and gst update (MR)
• phosh: Split linters into their own test suite (MR)
• phosh; QuickSettings follow-up (MR)
• phosh: Accent color fixes (MR)
• phosh: Notification animation (MR)
• phosh: end-session dialog timeout fix (MR)
• phosh: search daemon (MR)
• phosh-ev: Migrate to newer gtk-rs and async_channel (MR)
• phosh-mobile-settings: Update gmobile (MR)
• phosh-mobile-settings: Make panel-switcher scrollable (MR)
• phosh-mobile-settings: i18n comments (MR)
• gbp doc updates (MR)
• gbp handle suite names with number prefix (MR)
• Debian libvirt dependency changes (MR
• Chatty: misc improvements (MR
• iio-sensor-proxy: buffer driver without trigger (MR)
• gbp doc improvements (MR)
• gbp: More doc improvements (MR)
• gbp: Clean on failure (MR)
• gbp: DEP naming consistency (MR)

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Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. Besides a phosh bugfix release improving text input and selection was a prevalent pattern again resulting in improvements in the compositor, the OSK and some apps.

phosh

• Install gir (MR). Needed for e.g. Debian to properly package the Rust bindings.
• Try harder to find an app icon when showing notifications (MR)
• Add a simple Pomodoro timer plugin (MR)
• Small screenshot manager fixes (MR)
• Tweak portals configuration (MR)
• Consistent focus style on lock screen and settings (MR). Improves the visual appearance as the dotted focus frame doesn't match our otherwise colored focus frames
• Don't focus buttons in settings (MR). Improves the visual appearance as attention isn't drawn to the button focus.
• Close Phosh's settings when activating a Settings panel (MR)

phoc

• Improve cursor and cursor theme handling, hide mouse pointer by default (MR)
• Don't submit empty preedit (MR)
• Fix flickering selection bubbles in GTK4's text input fields (MR)
• Backport two more fixes and release 0.41.1 (MR)

phosh-mobile-settings

• Allow to select default text completer (MR, MR)
• Don't crash when we fail to load a pref plugin (MR)

libphosh-rs

• Update with current gir and allow to use status pages (MR)
• Expose screenshot manager and build without warnings (MR). (Improved further by a follow up MR from Sam)
• Fix clippy warnings and add clippy to CI (MR)

phosh-osk-stub

• presage: Always set predictors (MR). Avoids surprises with unwanted predictors.
• Install completer information (MR)
• Handle overlapping touch events (MR). This should improve fast typing.
• Allow plain ctrl and alt in the shortcuts bar (MR
• Use Adwaita background color to make the OSK look more integrated (MR)
• Use StyleManager to support accent colors (MR)
• Fix emoji section selection in RTL locales (MR)
• Don't submit empty preedit (MR). Helps to better preserve text selections.

phosh-osk-data

• Add scripts to build word corpus from Wikipedia data (MR) See here for the data.

xdg-desktop-portal-phosh

• Release 0.42~rc1 (MR)
• Fix HighContrast (MR)

Debian

• Collect some of the QCom workarounds in a package (MR). This is not meant to go into Debian proper but it's nicer than doing all the mods by hand and forgetting which files were modified.
• q6voiced: Fix service configuration (MR)
• chatty: Enable clock test again (MR), and then unbreak translations (MR)
• phosh: Ship gir for libphosh-rs (MR)
• phoc: Backport input method related fix (MR)
• Upload initial package of phosh-osk-data: Status in NEW
• Upload initial package of xdg-desktop-portal-pohsh: Status in NEW
• Backport phosh-osk-stub abbrev fix (MR
• phoc: Update to 0.42.1 (MR
• mobile-tweaks: Enable zram on Librem 5 and PP (MR)

ModemManager

• Some further work on the Cell Broadcast to address comments MR)

Calls

• Further improve daemon mode (MR) (mentioned last month already but got even simpler)

GTK

• Handle Gtk{H,V}Separator when migrating UI files to GTK4 (MR)

feedbackd

• Modernize README a bit (MR)

Chatty

• Use special event for SMS (MR)
• Another QoL fix when using OSK (MR)
• Fix printing time diffs on 32bit architectures (MR)

libcmatrix

• Use endpoints for authenticated media (MR). Needed to support v1.11 servers.

phosh-ev

• Switch to GNOME 47 runtime (MR)

git-buildpackage

• Don't use deprecated pkg-resources (MR)

Unified push specification

• Expand on DBus activation a bit (MR)

swipeGuess

• Small build improvement and mention phosh-osk-stub (Commit)

wlr-clients

• Fix -o option and add help output (MR)

iotas (Note taking app)

• Don't take focus with header bar buttons (MR). Makes typing faster (as the OSK won't hide) and thus using the header bar easier

Flare (Signal app)

• Don't take focus when sending messages, adding emojis or attachments (MR). Makes typing faster (as the OSK won't hide) and thus using those buttons easier

xdg-desktop-portal

• Use categories that work for both xdg-spec and the portal (MR)

Reviews

This is not code by me but reviews on other peoples code. The list is fairly incomplete, hope to improve on this in the upcoming months:

• phosh-tour: add first login mode (MR)
• phosh: Animate swipe closing notifications (MR)
• iio-sensor-proxy: Report correct value on claim (MR)
• iio-sensor-proxy: face-{up,down} (MR)
• phosh-mobile-settings: Squeekboad scaling (MR)
• libcmatrix: Misc cleanups/fixes (MR)
• phosh: Notification separator improvements (MR
• phosh: Accent colors (MR

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Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. Besides the usual amount of housekeeping last month was a lot about getting old issues resolved by finishing some stale merge requests and work in pogress MRs. I also pushed out the Phosh 0.42.0 Release

phosh

• Mark mobile-data quick setting as insensitive when modem is off (MR)
• Document handler naming (MR)
• Phosh 0.41.1 (MR)
• Phosh 0.42~rc1 (MR)
• Phosh 0.42.0 (MR)
• Handle per app notification enable setting (MR) (a 3y old MR cleaned up and out of the way)
• Use parent's icon if child doesn't have one (MR (another 1y old MR moved out of draft status)
• Fix Rust build and upcoming events .plugin file (MR)
• Lint markdown (MR)
• Sanitize versions as this otherwise breaks the libphosh-rs build (MR)
• lockscreen: Swap deck and carousel to avoid triggering the plugins page when entering pin and let the lockscreen shrink to smaller sizes (MR) (two more year old usability issues out of the way)
• Let bitfield values end up in the docs again (MR)
• Don't focus incorrect app on launch (MR). This could happen with apps like calls that run a daemon (and needs more work for a clean solution).
• Continue with wallpaper MR (MR) (still draft)
• Brush up and land an old MR to avoid crashes on scale changes (MR). Another five month old MR out of the way.
• API version the shared library (MR)
• Ensure we send enough feedback when phone is blanked/locked (MR). This should be way easier now for apps as they don't need to do anything and we can avoid duplicate feedback sent from e.g. Chatty.
• Fix possible use after free when activating notifications on the lock screen (MR)

phoc

• Simplify layer-surface creation / destruction (MR)
• Don't lose preedit when switching applications, opening menus, etc (MR). This fixes the case (e.g. with word completion in phosh-osk-stub enabled) where it looks to the user as if the last typed word would get lost when switching from a text editor to another app or when opening a menu
• Ease focus debugging (MR)
• Release 0.42~rc1 (MR)
• Release 0.42.0 (MR)
• Mention examples in docs and check more things (MR)

phosh-mobile-settings

• Release 0.42~rc1 (MR)
• Release 0.42 (MR)
• Update ci-fairy (MR)

libphosh-rs

• Update Phosh-0.gir with above phosh fixes to unbreak the build (MR)
• Rework to work with API versioned libphosh (MR)

phosh-osk-stub

• Add paste button to easy pasting text (MR)
• Add copy button (draft) (MR)
• Fix word salad with presage completer when entering cursor navigation mode (and in some other cases) (MR 1). Presage has the best completion but was marked experimental due to that.
• Submit preedit on changes to terminal and emoji layout (MR)
• Enable hint based completion by default (MR)
• Release 0.42~r1 (MR)
• Release 0.42.0 (MR)

phosh-wallpapers

• Add sound for cellbroadcast (MR)
• Release 0.42.0 (MR)

meta-phosh

• Weekly image builds of nightly packages are now built in CI and uploaded.
• Handle Fixes: tag in git commit messages as well (MR)
• Let release prep handle non-RC versions as well (MR)
• Add common markdown linter job (MR)

Debian

• Update wlr-randr (MR)
• Upload libqmi developement snapshot (MR) (Helps eSIM and CellBroadcast)
• Update phosh to not crash with GSD from GNOME 47 (MR)
• Fix systemd unit path in calls (MR)
• Package wikietractor (MR)

ModemManager

• More work on Cell Broadcast so we can finally undraft (MR)

Calls

• Check consistency when building releases (MR
• Object life cycle fixes (MR)
• Use DBus activation (MR). This ensures it spawns quickly rather than phosh's splash screen timing out.

bluez

• Add user unit for mpris proxy so it works out of the box (Patch) and one can skip e.g. songs in a cars media unit

gnome-text-editor

• Wrap info-bar more (MR) to fit smalls screens
• Forward metainfo/desktop file updates from Mobian (MR) (patch originally by Arnaud Ferraris)

feedbackd

• Add udev rule to support haptic on Oneplus Fajita / Enchilada's (non-mailine driver) (MR)
• Support alert-slider on OnePlus 6/6T (MR. Based on a script by "isyourbrain foss".
• Release 0.5.0 (MR)
• Improve spec a bit regarding notification events (MR)

Chatty

• Don't send feedback for notifications (MR). The notification daemon does this already.
• Add event for cellbroadcast messages (MR)
• Switch to DBus activation (MR). This ensures the compositor sees the activation token and is will be useful for unified push.
• Don't let scroll_down button take focus (MR). This prevents the OSK from folding when the text view is focused and ones scrolls to the bottom.
• Use revealer to show/hide scroll_down button (MR) - just to make the visual more appealing
• Unbreak messge display (MR)
• Unbreak application icon (MR)
• Drop special preedit handling (MR).

libcall-ui

• Drop margin so we can fit on smaller screens (MR). This helps phosh on lower effective resolutions.
• Backport margin patch (MR)

glib

• Fix doc formatting for g_input_stream_read_all* (MR)

wlr-protocols

• Add toplevel responsiveness state (MR) so phosh can inform about unresponsive apps

git-buildpackage

• Modernize docs to use debian/latest instead of debian/sid (commit, commit).
• Use pytest instead of nose as test runner (MR)
• Release 0.9.35

iio-sensor-proxy

• Unbreak and modernize CI a bit (MR). A passing CI is so much more motivating for contributers and reviewers.

Fotema

• Fix app-id and hence the icon shown in Phosh's overview (MR)

Help Development

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Another short status update of what happened on my side last month.

Quite a bit of time went into helping organize the FrOSCon FOSS on Mobile dev room (day 1, day 2, summary) but that was all worth it and fun - so was releasing Phosh 0.41.0 (which incidetally happened right before FrOScon). A three years old MR to xdg-spec to add call categories landed (thanks Matthias) allowing us to finally provide proper feedback for e.g. IM calls too. The rest was some OSK improvements (around Indic language support via varnam and layout configuration), some Cell Broadcast advancements (thanks to NGI0 for supporting this) but also some fixes. Here's the details:

Phosh

• Debug crash when swiping away keyboard on lockscreen (MR).
• Fix outdated clock when swiping back from lockscreen plugins (MR)
• Avoid deprecation warning (MR)
• Better handle mobile network generation bit masks (MR)
• Improve docs that end up in the libphosh-rs docs (MR)
• Modernize ModemManager backend in preparation for Cellbroadcast support (MR)
• Remove hacks from Cell Broadcast support MR (MR). Still draft but not much todo left once the ModemManager side landed
• Remove deprecated UI props and add a check so they don't creep back in (MR)
• Allow to use ASAN when feedbackd is a subproject (MR)
• Fix crash when Wi-Fi hot spot quick setting gets disabled (MR)
• Don't allow to change hotspot state on the lock screen (MR)
• Prepare and release Phosh 0.41.0~rc1 and Phosh 0.41.0
• Prepare 0.41.1 (MR)

Phoc

• Don't reject gesture when we cross another surface (MR)

phosh-mobile-settings

• Drop redundant enums (MR)
• Remember last used panel (MR)
• Fix initial state of move up/down popovers (MR)
• Allow to select OSK layouts (MR). This ensures only actually available layouts can be selected. Currently used by phosh-osk-stub but can easily be extended to squeekboard once it provides the information.

libphosh-rs

• Allow to run doc build locally and fix CI (MR)
• Release 0.0.2

phosh-osk-stub

• Allow to open OSK Settings panel when screen is not locked (MR)
• Unswap Enter and Backspace (MR)
• Bug fix release 0.41.1
• Use varnam_learn() for better completions in the varnam completer (MR)
• Export layout information (MR)
• Reduce flicker when launching settings (MR)

phosh-wallpapers

• Avoid new event sounds not being picked up due to stale caches (MR)
• Improve phone-hangup sound (MR)

meta-phosh

• Add release helpers (MR)

phosh-recipes

• VM images to test nightly packages https://salsa.debian.org/agx/phosh-recipes (based on Mobian's recipes)

Debian

• Upload Phosh 0.41.0~rc1 and 0.41.0 releases
• Robustify release script a bit (MR)
• Enable binding lib in phosh (MR)
• Move govarnam and varnam schemes packages into the input method team
• Upload varnam schemes to sid (MR)
• Make varnam-schemes reproducible, add autopkgtests and run upstream test during build (MR)
• Build wlroots with xcb-errors support (MR)

Mobian

• Help mobian-recipes with newer debos: (MR)

ModemManager

• Rework most bits of Cell Broadcast to move it closer to undraft status (MR). (Remaining bits affect enabling of unsolicited messages and setting channels).

Calls

• Use official notification category (MR)
• Use AdwAboutDialog (MR)

gnome-bluetooth

• Fix some deprecations (MR)
• Make pairing dialog adaptive (MR)
• Allow to use with Phosh without imposing more API/ABI guarantees (MR

gnome-settings-daemon

• Fix crash when hitting an error condition (which could then bring down the whole session): (MR)

feedbackd

• Install the udev rule via meson (MR to makes it easier for distros to pick up rule changes
• Sync packaging with Debian (MR)
• Document used gsettings (MR)

Chatty

• Update information at matrix.org (MR)
• Implement more unified push bits: (MR
• Document things a bit (MR
• Chase libcmatrix API changes (MR)

Libcmatrix

• More cleanups (MR, MR, MR)
• Publish docs (MR)
• Ship introspection data (MR)
• Release 0.0.2 (MR) (Release announcement)

Eigenvalue

• Catch up with libcmatrix API changes (MR)

kunifiedpush

• Avoid broken URLs when using ntfy (MR)

gir-rustdoc

• Improve error message when not running in CI (MR)

python-dbusmock

• Drop outdated comments (MR)

matrix spec

• propose some hints for Mobile clients (MR)

sound-theme spec

• propose new sound name for cell broadcasts (MR)

varname-schemes

• Make reproducible (MR)
• Don't ignore errors in build scripts (MR)
• Allow to run test against installed schemes (MR
• Fix build with recent ruby (MR)

FroSCon

• Helped a bit to setup the event
• Gave a short Phosh status update

Help Development

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Last weekend FrOSCon took place in St. Augustin (near Bonn). While memory is still fresh: here's a short look back with the focus on what I think worked well and what we could maybe improve for next year (should we want to do it again):

It was the 2nd time we had a dedicated FOSS on Mobile devroom with a mix of talks, discussions and hacking time and the first time we had a booth showing different devices running Linux. It was nice to see people joining for the first time as well as some familiar faces.

(image taken from https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS/112976637275476001)

Talks

There were talks ranging from how Qualcomm devices are booting (and how the should boot), Debugging the Mobile Linux stack as well as happenings in the app ecosystem and how the weekly news feed covering our ecosystem is created (to name a few). I think the diversity of different topics was well received.

Lightning Talks

Last year we had two one hour slots for lightning talks which weren't completely filled so we went to 30min total this year. The three 10min talk slots filled up quickly with

• Usage of BTRFS on Mobile Linux
• A project to bring VR gaming to Mobile Linux using Guix
• A project for mainline recovery

so we squeezed in a 4th one between two talks (about posting images to the Fediverse directly from a digital camera). We should likely reserve one full hour for lighting talks.

Discussons / Round Tables

The What are you missing to use Linux Mobile daily… round table/discussion (which was sparked by last year's Phosh community get together) was enlightening as it highlighted the different issues people are having (for some of them others could already contribute a solution). We should likely keep that as a fix point in the schedule. These are the bullet points from the white board we could use as a base the check what changed (hopefully improved) next year.

Time for Hacking / Problem solving

The Let's hack together on Mobile Linux session on Sunday morning looks like a good idea as people can trickle in as they see fit in the morning after the social event. It also allowed people to drop by with questions or devices they wanted to get Mobile Linux on (which wasn't always possible due to not yet working kernels).

We could often spark some hope though by redirecting them to the booth to see similar devices to theirs running Mobile Linux. This made me notice that not everyone was aware that there's a booth as well so we could connect booth and devroom better i.e. mention the booths location and devices present there on the devroom's white board and have a printout with the talk schedule at the booth.

Podcast

The postmarketOS podcast Live Episode was a very nice wrap up of the two conference days. Something similar (or same) would be nice next year.

Misc

Some other random thoughts on what we could keep/change for next year (should we want to do it again):

• The closing event is somewhat superfluous. Let's drop it. Some people have left by then as they need to catch trains or want to say goodbye and we can have some closing words right after the last talk. We're also usually enough people to clean up the room afterwards. The opening event however is useful as an introduction on what to expect (especially for people joining the first time).

• People said that speakers were sometimes hard to understand in the back rows so we should consider using a speaker microphone (which would also make recording possible).

• It would be nice to (optionally) video record sessions as there were some requests regarding that but people also raised privacy concerns and enjoyed being able to watch talks without being recorded but that's solvable by having areas in the room that don't end up on camera. On the other hand not recording gives the whole thing a "be there or be square" touch.

• Setting up the room on Saturday morning became a bit hectic so it's likely better to do that on Friday afternoon (especially if we'd need to set up video recording as well).

• Not having any events in the devroom when there are Mobile Linux related talks on the main track (like this years eSIM management on Qualcomm phones) looks useful to avoid split brain.

• Keeping the room ventilated worked out well according to the measured CO2 levels. Hopefully the health and safety guidelines were appropriate to make everyone feel comfortable. If so we should do that next year again.

• Taking a photo and posting it to the Fediverse is a lot of steps on Mobile Linux atm. A small app that allows to open a picture (or paste it from the clipboard), rotate and crop it, add some text (that is also added as alt text), allows to select from a list of hash tags and post it to ones timeline would be nice to have to make that less distracting.

Thanks

Many thanks go to the people doing a presentation, staffing the booth, the FroSCon orga for a smooth conference and everyone joining, listening in and participating.

A short status update on what happened on my side last month. Looking at unified push support for Chatty prompted some libcmatrix fixes and Chatty improvements (benefiting other protocols like SMS/MMS as well).

The Bluetooth status page in Phosh was a slightly larger change code wise as we also enhanced our common widgets for building status pages, simplifying the Wi-Fi status page and making future status pages simpler. But as usual investigating bugs, reviewing patches (thanks!) and keeping up with the changing world around us is what ate most of the time.

Phosh

A Wayland Shell for mobile devices

• Update to latest gvc (MR)
• Mark more strings as translatable (MR)
• Improve Bluetooth support by adding a StatusPage (MR)
• Improve vertical space usage for status pages (MR)
• Fix build with newer GObject introspection, we can now finally enable --fatal-warnings (MR)
• Fix empty system modal dialog on keyring lookups: (MR)
• Send logind locked hint: (MR)
• Small cleanups (MR, MR)

Phoc

A Wayland compositor for mobile devices

• Update to wlroots 0.17.4 (MR)
• Fix inhibitors crash (can affect video playback) (MR)

libphosh-rs

Phosh Rust bindings

• Add doc build (MR)
• Release 0.0.1 on crates.io (MR)

phosh-osk-stub

A on screen keyboard for Phosh

• Allow for up to five key rows and add more keyboard layouts: (MR)

phosh-mobile-settings

• Allow to set prefer flash (MR)
• Allow to set quick-silent: (MR)
• Make DBus activatable (MR)

phosh-wallpapers

Wallpapers, Sounds and other artwork

• Add Phone hangup event: (MR)

git-buildpackage

Suite to help with Debian packages in Git repositories

• Fix tests with Python 3.12 and upload 0.9.34

Whatmaps

Tool to find processes mapping shared objects

• Fix build with python 3.12 and release 0.0.14

Debian

The universal operating system

• Upload whatmaps 0.0.14
• Package libssc (MR) for upcoming sensor support on some Qualcomm based phones
• Fix iio-sensor-proxy RC bug and cleanup a bit: (MR)
• Update wlroots to 0.17.4 (MR)
• Update calls to 46.3 (MR)
• Prepare 0.18.0 (MR
• meta-phosh: Switch default font and recommend iio-sensor-proxy: (MR)

Mobian

A Debian derivative for mobile devices

• Fix non booting kernels when built on Trixie (MR)
• Make cross building a bit nicer: (MR, MR)

Calls

PSTN and SIP calls for GNOME

• Emit phone-hangup event when a call ended (MR). Together with the sound theme changes this gives a audible sound when the other side hung up.
• Debug and document Freeswitch sofia-sip failure (it's TLS validation).

Livi

Minimalistic video player targeting mobile devices

• Export stream position and duration via MPRIS (MR)
• Slightly improve duration display (MR)
• Improve docs a bit: (MR)

libcall-ui

Common user interface parts for call handling in GNOME and Phosh.

• Release 0.1.2 (Build system cleanups only)
• Add consistency checks: (MR)

feedbackd

DBus service for haptic/visual/audio feedback

• Fix test failures on recent Fedora due to more strict json-glib: (MR)

Chatty

Messaging application for mobile and desktop

• Continue work on push notifications: (MR)
  • Allow to delete push server
  • Hook into DBus connector class
  • Parse push notifications
• Avoid duplicate lib build and fix warnings (MR)
• Let F10 enable the primary menu: (MR)
• Focus search when activating it (MR)
• Fix search keybinding: (MR)
• Fix keybinding to open help overlay (MR)
• Don't hit assertions in libsoup by iterating the wrong context: (MR)
• Matrix: Fix unread count getting out of sync: (MR)
• Allow to disable purple via build profile (MR)
• Fix critical during key verification (MR)
• ChatInfo: Use AdwDialog and show Matrix room topic (MR)
• Fix crash on account creation: (MR)

libcmatrix

A matrix client client library

• Fix gir annotations, make gir and doc warnings fatal: (MR)
• Cleanup README: (MR)
• Some more minor cleanups and docs: (MR, (MR, (MR)
• Generate enum types to make them usable by library consumers (MR)
• Don't blindly iterate the default context (MR)
• Allow to fetch a single event (useful for handling push notifications) (MR)
• Make CmCallback behave like other callbacks (MR)
• Allow to add/remove/fetch pushers sync (MR)
• Add sync variant for fetching past events (MR)
• Make a self contained library, test that in CI and make all public classes show up in the docs (MR)
• Track unread count (MR)
• Release libcmatrix 0.0.1
• Add support for querying room topics (MR)
• Allow to disable running the tests so superprojects have some choice (MR)
• Fix crashes, use after free, … (MR, MR, MR)

Eigenvalue

A libcmatrix test client

• New project to ease testing libcmatrix changes: https://github.com/agx/eigenvalue
• Add support for /room-details: (MR)
• Add support for /room-load-past-events: (MR)

Help Development

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A short status update of what happened on my side last month. Was able to test our Cellbroadcast bits, feedbackd became more flexible regarding LEDs, Phosh 0.40 is out, and some more.

Phosh

• Phosh 0.40.0
• Fix testing custom quick setting plugins (MR)
• Add icons for dark style toggles (thanks to Sam Hewitt for the help) (MR, MR)
• 0.39.x backports (MR)
• Set default sound-theme (MR)
• Launch apps in transient scope (MR)
• Allow to suspend from lock screen (MR)
• Fix media player button style (MR)
• Don't use plain .so for bindings lib (MR)

Phoc

• Fling gesture to open/close phosh's panels (MR)
• Fix crash on output removal (MR)
• Don't draw decorations when maximized (MR)
• Allow to stack layer surfaces (MR was a bit older, polished up to land it) (MR)

gmobile

• Add hwdb support for Juno tablets (based on information by Giovanni Caligaris) (MR)
• Support add generic BT AVRCP profile (with the help of Phil Hands) (MR)
• Released 0.2.1

phosh-mobile-settings

• Use shared gmobile (MR)

phosh-wallpapers

• Add sound theme (MR)

emacs

• Add a major mode for systemd-hwdb files (MR)

Debian

• Backport phog fix to work with phosh-osk-stub (MR)
• Release git snapshot of phosh-wallpaper for NEW processing (MR)
• Backport phosh fixes for 0.39.0 (MR)
• Phoc: Install examples, they're useful for debugging (MR)
• Make libpam-ccreds work with gcrypt 1.11:
• Upload phosh release 0.40.0~rc1 and 0.40.0
• phog: Add example for autologin (MR)
• Update firefox-esr-mobile-config (thanks to Peter Mack for the input) (MR)
• Tweak meta-phosh:
  • Add feedbackd-device-themes (MR)
  • Add jxl pixbuf loader (MR)
  • Make gstreamer-packagekit a recommends (MR)

ModemManager

• Test our current code at NLalert test day: Current branch

Feedbackd

• Only apply Qualcom bits to lpg driver (MR)
• Support arbitrary RGB values for multicolor LEDs (MR)
• Allow to use camera flash LEDs as status LEDs (MR)
• End too noisy feedback when switching profile levels (MR)
  • calls bugfix for this (MR)
  • Trigger this via vol- in Phosh when a call comes in (MR)
• Packaging fixes (MR) , MR)
• device-themes: Lower brightness of feedback events as the flash is too bright on OnePlus 6T (MR)
• cli: Inform user when nothing was triggered (MR)
• Released 0.4.0

Livi

• Released 0.2.0
• Robustify stream resume (MR)

Calls

• build: Add summary (MR)
• Handle missing sim better (MR)
• Backports for 46 (MR)
• Fix SIP crash (MR)

Chatty

• Allow to display a Matrix clients access token (MR)
• libcmatrix: Add support handling push notification servers (MR)
• Allow to add push notification servers (draft)) (MR)
• Package docs (MR)

meta-phosh

• Add check for release consistency (MR)
  • mobile-settings: Use it in mobile settings (MR)

Libhandy

• Fix use-after-free in stackable-box (MR)

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