Colors of Noise

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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