Colors of Noise

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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A short status update of what happened on my side last month. A broken gcovr in Debian triggered a bit of busy work but 0.39.0 came out nicely nevertheless. We also reduced build time quiet a bit in phosh and phoc.

• Phosh.mobi

  • Release Phosh 0.39.0
  • Blog post on wakeup keys
  • Start video section

• phosh

  • Split mocked and real wall clock: Merge request
  • Speed up build: Merge request
  • Update CI and fix some leaks: Merge request
  • Generate initial Rust bindings for libphosh: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/libphosh-rs
    • Preps for that:
      • Split headers from sources: Merge request
      • Allow to install headers and shared object: Merge request
  • Wire up screenshot keybinding: Merge request
  • Expose OverviewActive property: Merge request
  • Further reduce build time: Merge request
  • Add mocks for ModemManager and NM data connections: Merge request

• phoc

  • Move udev rules and hwdb entries downstream: Merge request
  • Speed up build: Merge request
  • Update wlroots to 0.17.3: Merge request
  • Doc updates: Merge request

• gmobile

  • Add wakeup-key hwdb and udev rules: Merge request
  • Release 0.2.0: Merge request
  • Simplify testing panel information of different devices: Merge request
  • Add hwdb entries for more devices: Merge request

• calls

  • Update ci images so MRs using newer libadwaita can land: Merge request

• mobile-broadband-provider-info:

  • Release 20240407

• feedbackd

  • Initial libfeedback Rust bindings
    • Crate: https://crates.io/crates/libfeedback
  • Test led probing using umockdev: Merge request

• livi:

  • Update flatpak deps: Merge request (This includes a patch from Sebastian Dröge to optionally switch to gtk4paintable sink)
  • Add GSetting for auido visualizer: Merge request

• chatty / libcmatrix

  • Update libcmatrix. This pulls in our changes from last month.

• python-dbusmock

  • Add initial ModemManager mock: Merge request (Makes the ModemManager mock in Phosh mentioned above simpler)

• Linux kernel

  • Export wakeup keys: Merge request
  • Don't wake up on volume key press: Merge request

• libcall-ui

  • Release 0.1.2: Merge request

• Debian

  • Fix and upload gcovr: Merge request, Issue
  • Workarond gcovr breackage in phosh-osk-stub, gmobile, mobile settings and phosh
  • Update wlroots
    • Upload 0.17.2 to sid: Merge request
    • Upload 0.17.3 to exerimental: Merge request
  • Mobile tweaks:
    • Upload new version: Merge request
    • Cleanup a bit: Merge request
    • update Librem 5 power mgmt rules so we don't lose the modem: Merge request (allowed me to drop all PureOS packages on my cross graded device)
  • feedbackd: Install missing docs (Closes: #1050601): Merge request

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A short status update of what happened on my side last month. Maintenance and code review keep to be the top time sinks (in a positive way).

• phosh: A Wayland shell for mobile devices

  • Release phosh 0.37.1
  • Release phosh 0.38.0
  • Be more generous in the gnome-session versions we support: Merge Request
  • Improve notification timestamps for translations: Merge Request
  • Improve test coverage a bit: Merge Request
  • Improve introspection data and documentation (Merge Request 1, Merge Request 2). Besides better docs (we now also fail on new warnings and errors (Merge Request) this allows to use parts of phosh in e.g. display managers in languages using introspection (Rust, JS, …). See this issue how this could become useful.
  • Add night light quick settings toggle: Merge Request
  • Fix power menu rendering without Cantarell: Merge Request
  • Track settings state (Merge Request) in shell state flags too. This will be useful to make tests more robust.

• phoc: A wlroots based Wayland compositor mostly used on mobile phones

  • More internal cleanup: Merge Request
  • Use shared gmobile: Merge Request
  • More introspection fixes to improve doc builds: Merge Request
  • Fix window cycle order: Merge Request
  • Fix crash with cutout/notch debug: Merge Request

• phosh-tour: A short introduction to Phosh

  • Fix blurry images: Merge Request
  • Fix flatpak build: Merge Request
  • Fix packaging build: Merge Request
  • Add a small Getting started page so phosh-tour has anything to point at

• gmobile: Functions useful in mobile related, glib based projects

  • Release 0.1.0
  • Update docs for shared lib use: Merge Request
  • Upload to Debian: https://packages.debian.org/sid/libgmobile0

• libcall-ui: Common user interface parts for call handling

  • Release 0.2.0: Merge Request

• calls: Phone calls application

  • Fix crash without location services: Merge Request

• phosh-ev: Monitor battery status of an electric car

  • Switch flatpak runtime to GNOME 46: Merge Request

• phosh-mobile-settings: Mobile specific settings

  • osk: Allow to configure whether to ignore hardware keyboards: Merge Request
  • Fix build without phoc: Merge Request
  • Allow to organise additional quick settings: Merge Request

• epiphany Don't make it appear frozen on first start: Merge Request

• iio-sensor-proxy (missed that one in March): Make test-suite more robust so people aren't puzzled when trying things locally: Merge Request

• mobile-broadband-provider-info Prepare Release: Merge Request

• feedbackd: A daemon to provide haptic, led and audio feedback triggered by application events

  • Allow to override feedback level: Merge Request (gnome-clocks branch using this)
  • Allow to use shared gmobile: Merge Request
  • Release 0.3.0: Merge Request

• meta-phosh Update dependency set: Merge Request Use common style check: Merge Request

• phosh nightly: Package builds of current Phosh git

  • Add some more packages that are useful for mobile: https://source.puri.sm/guido.gunther/phosh-debs

• livi: A small video player targeting mobile devices

  • Add devel profile to ease having the devel and release flatpak installed: Merge Request

• chatty / libcmatrix: Assorted fixes. Some to make matrix a bit more robust:

  • Don't forget to call sync callback: Merge Request
  • Improve copy popover: Merge Request
  • Drop support for libsoup2: Merge Request
  • Matrix robustness: Merge Request
  • Fix Matrix image download: Merge Request
  • Fix Doc build and make sure more methods end up there: Merge Request

• systemd:

  • Discuss hwdb and udev rules so we can track unidle/wakup keys: hwdb Merge Request, udev Merge Request to better handle device tree devices. As it turns out we'll do most of this in phoc initially and then open another merge request once we have more data.

• librem5-flash-image

  • Bring it back to debian testing: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/librem5-flash-image

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A short status update of what happened on my side last month. I spent quiet a bit of time reviewing new, code (thanks!) as well as maintenance to keep things going but we also have some improvements:

Phosh

• Release phosh 0.37.0
• Add support for progress indicator and counts to lockscreen launcher entries: Merge request, Demo using Phosh-EV's charge status as example (Merge request)
• Fix 5G with MM: Merge Request
• Doc updates: Merge Request
• Drop builtin session support Merge request
• Support gnome-session 45/46: Merge request
• Add plymouth theme: Merge Request
• OSD improvements: Merge Request
• Monitor: Only use wl_output_done and background fixes: Merge Request
• Support phones with rounded display corners: Merge Request
• CI maintenance: Merge Request

Phoc

• More fractional scale fixes: Merge Request
• Dedup pointer constrain code: Merge Request
• xdg-shell: Check serial on move/resize: Merge Request
• Add an animation when toggling always on top: Merge Request
• Make ViewChild a GObject: Merge Request
• Validate more things during build: Merge Request
• Update to wlroots 0.17.2: Merge Request

phosh-mobile-settings

• CI maintenance: Merge Request

phosh-osk-stub

• Detect and optionally disable when hardware keyboard is present: Merge Request
• Coloring fixes for HighContrast: Merge Request
• CI maintenance: Merge Request

gmobile

• Make a shared library: Merge Request
• Let it work with recent json-glib : Merge Request

Livi

• Allow to preprocess pasted URLs: Merge request
• Bump GTK dependency and add fallback so we can land Robert's GtkOffload support: Merge request
• Allow to list recent videos: Merge request
• Check for Wayland support early: Merge Request

squeekboard

• Build against newer dependencies: Merge Request
• Forward to glib 2-58: Merge Request
• CI maintenance: Merge Request

GNOME calls

• Release 46.0: Merge Request

Libsoup

• Don't export too many symbols: Merge Request

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A short status update what happened last month. Work in progress is marked as WiP:

GNOME Calls

• Landed support to pick emergency calls numbers based on location (until now Calls picked the numbers from the SIM card only): Merge Request
• Bugfix: Fix dial back - the action mistakenly got disabled in some circumstances: Merge Request, Issue.

Phosh and Phoc

As this often overlaps I've put them in a common section:

• Prepare and release Phosh 0.36.0 and upload to Debian
• phoc: Implement always on top and allow to move to corners via keybindings: Merge Request, Demo
• phoc: Wire up support for fractional-scale-v1 protocol: Merge Request. Issue
• phoc: Go with the flow and don't use APIs that will be removed in wlroots 0.18, thus switch to render pass: Merge Request
• phoc (as art of my ongoing cleanups to make the code base more approachable):
  • Make PhocServer private: Merge Request
  • Move drag-icon handling into it's own file: Merge Request
• phosh: load backgrounds asynd and handle dark theme URIs: Merge Request
• WiP: Allow to use wallpapers in lock screen and overview: Merge Request 1, Merge Request 2, Merge Request 3
• phosh: Add a caffeine quick-setting: Merge Request, Demo
• phosh and phoc bug fixes
  • Fix Maximized map of X11 surfaces: Merge Request
  • vpn fix: Merge Request
  • Fix crash around emergency calls: Merge Request
  • Honor disabled locking when there's no lock delay: Merge Request
• Testsuite improvements:
  • Speedup tests: Merge Request
  • Load plugins in tests: Merge Request
• release gmobile 0.0.6

Phosh Tour

• Allow for hardware specific pages: Merge Request
• Catch up with library and CI improvements: Merge Request

Phosh Mobile Settings

• Filter lockscreen plugins on lockscreen page: Merge Request

Phosh OSK Stub

• Add OSK side workaround for splash timeouts until GTK side is merged: Merge Request
• Update emoji data: Merge Request

Livi Video Player

• Remember stream position: Merge Request
• Label SDH subtitles: Merge Request
• Show controls when window becomes active: Merge Request

Phosh.mobi Website

• Directly link to tarballs from the release page, e.g. here

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