I gave KDE Plasma Mobile another go. It improved a LOT over the past few months. No crashes yet! It's a lot more stable now. Although not as stable as Phosh.
I like their whole "just copy Android" philosophy. Everything feels familiar and intuitive. I might keep it like this.
Today was cell broadcast test day in NL. @janvlug and @z3ntu thankfully captured Modemmanager logs. Piped that into my MM testcase and could parse it out all right:
> NL-Alert 04-12-2023 12:00: TESTBERICHT. De overheid waarschuwt je tijdens noodsituaties via NL-Alert. Je leest dan wat je moet doen en waar je meer informatie kan vinden. *** TEST MESSAGE Netherlands Government Public Warning System. No action required.
Well, I tried and failed for the second time and once again have no clue how to get #KDE / #QT apps to use a dark theme in #Phosh . I even tried switching theme and color pallet over qt5ct, qt6ct and kvantum but the mobile versions don't seem to react to those apps whatsoever or I did something really wrong (yet I set the env variable correctly). I wish something like PostmarketOS Tweaks had it, as far as I know it's just a different call because there is no proper standard for dark mode yet.
More fixes in #phosh and #phoc ➕ allows to reorder lock screen plugins (thanks gauthamx@mastodon.world) ➕ improvements in phosh-osk-stub's virtual-keyboard mode in non US layouts (e.g. for electron apps) and initial #varnam support for Malayalam.
Day 4 of attempting to daily drive postmarketOS Linux on a OnePlus 6T:
📶 I felt brave this morning, so I handed over my SIM card to Linux. At first, the phone didn't recognise the card, but the wiki page helped me resolve the problem quickly. I had to increase the config value sim_wait_time and reboot the phone to make it work. Mobile data and receiving texts work flawlessly. I haven't tried sending texts and making calls yet.
⏰ Yesterday, I also used the Clock app to set an alarm to wake up and a timer when cooking, and it actually worked fine, even with the phone locked.
🚈 I also had my train ticket checked today. I was able to present the QR code without any issues.
If you are not happy with your on-screen-keyboard (#squeekboard) on Mobian, you might want to try out #phosh-osk-stub which is @agx's toy keyboard. I like the layout a lot, apparently it even features local text prediction (have not tried that yet).
Remember, it is a toy, so hold back on your support requests.
People had different theories why phosh-osk-stub woudn't use the whole display width on wider displays so I was buckling up for a full afternoon of debugging sizing issues but as it turns out after a couple of minutes we were just missing a tightening-threshold in a HdyClamp: Rest of the afternoon saved thanks to #gtk inspector 🎉
I think I finally figured out a decent dark theme for #QT apps in #Phosh using #Kvantum and it's dark Gnome theme but Tokodon doesn't seem to like it at all so I will have to use a PWA for Mastodon again. It's really nice to finally have a somewhat decent dark theme even tho I would prefer the dark version of Breeze, maybe KDE will make that possible at some point I guess!
Progress in supporting Indic languages in phosh-osk-stub:
merged initial completer support for Indic languages based on libvarnam earlier this week
have an MR to switch from libvarnam to more modern govarnam (thx @subins2000
@arunmani is looking into making all the possible completions available
have an MR to allow to switch between different completion engines automatically (e.g. use #hunspell for Us & De and #varnam for #Malayalam (see video below)
Hatte ich #mobian eigentlich schon mal auf meinem #ThinkPad 10 getestet?
Suche weiterhin nach einem Rundrumsorglospaket um das Gerät sofatauglich zu bekommen und mobian mit #phosh ... joah?
Testen wir es doch mal.
With some preparatory work to allow plugins to use objects from #phosh core and @arunmani 's nice work on custom quick settings already merged the often asked for caffeine toggle is within reach:
Looking forward tomorrow 3 days hackfest organized by @tbernard
The main topic is GNOME mobile, but I expect there will be lots of collateral topics such as camera, hardware enablement, adaptive apps, UX, platform APIs, interoperability, and coordination.
He look, 🎅 just dropped #phosh 0.34.0 🚀 📱 . The bulk of things happened on the Wayland compositor side but the phone shell and other bits also got some improvements and fixes.
Some progress to handle notches / cutouts of #linuxmobile phones better in #phosh : I have a small lib that gets panel cutout / notch information as #svg paths and can calculate a bounding box . #phoc can use it to render cutouts for debugging and #phosh can use it for layout (so far only to shift the panel down). (see follow up posts for more pictures).
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Gestern habe ich mir #Mobian@mobian mit #Phosh auf mein #Pinephone pro installiert.
Was soll ich sagen? ... Ich bin begeistert!
Gut, die Akkulaufzeit ist sehr klar verbesserungswürdig.
Aber "nur für Entwickler geeignet" ist es definitiv nicht mehr. Für mein Empfinden: es ist eine stabile Beta-qualität.
Kamera, GPS, Rotation, Telefon, SMS, WiFi, Mobile Daten, Karten, ...
Sehr viel besser, als das vorinstallierte Manjaro mit KDE. ...
Als nächstes synchronisierte ich mir Kalender und Kontakte mit meiner Nextcloud. 👍
Was mir aktuell noch ernsthaft fehlt ist ein QR-Code-Scanner (wie z.B. Cobang) und die Batterieoptimierung / eine bessere Batterie.
Das Jahr für ein stabiles #LinuxOnMobile ist nicht mehr weit!
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I forgot to post it but for those of you who (like me) desperately wait for push notifications on your #LinuxPhone there is a issue for #Phosh now, it's just to collect ideas and they don't plan to actually implement anything till suspend is figured out (that currently only works for calls and SMS) but it's a start! Big thanks to @agx for the nice conversation we had in their Matrix room! :) https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/meta-phosh/-/issues/3 #Purism#MobileLinux#UnifiedPush
I remember how nervous I was when (in early 2020) I went to the post office with my #Librem5 📱 to drop off a 📦 and present the barcode on the phone. (Having previously scp'ed the pdf to the phone to show it in evince).
Would the 🔋 last? Would it overheat? Would the display stack hold? It worked.
Nowadays I don't spend a thought: Fill in the data on my laptop, save the pdf, have it synced automatically via #syncthing to #phosh's ticket-box folder and show it at the counter. ✅