Weekly #MobilePOSIX Update (25/2022): Better Processing in Megapixels and another report on the PinePhone Pro Cameras
Table of Contents
The usual development progress, another nice Q&A video by UBports and DOOM on a Modem!
Commentary in italics.
Software progress
GNOME ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #49 New Views. More Files and Calendar improvements, Pika Backup working better as a Flatpak are the highlight's of GNOME's week.
- James Westman: Labelling Maps is Surprisingly Hard. Great read!
- Georges Stavracas: Giving up on GNOME To Do. It's always sad when someone has to give up on a project, but may this change may help getting To Do adaptive outside of Mobian's fork.
- chergert: Builder GTK 4 Porting, Part VII.
- Carlos Garcia Campos: Thread safety support in libsoup3.
Plasma/Maui ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: a mad bugfixing spree. Nice progress!
- Felipe Kinoshita: My week in KDE: Pomodoro and Lorem Ipsum. I'll need to check how well Pomodoro works on mobile!
- SMIT S PATIL: Porting KCM modules from QtWidgets to QtQuick/Kirigami for GSOC 2022.
- KDE News: KDE Apps Mid-Year Update. Not much in terms of mobile in here (seemingly, there's going to be a mobile specific post on June 28th), but Haruna might be worth another look.
Ubuntu Touch
- Florian Leeber for UBports: Ubuntu Touch OTA-23 Call for Testing. It's not too late to get involved in the testing game!
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 118. The transscript and only audio variant of the last Q&A. Make sure to not miss Q&A 119 down below!
Nemo Mobile
- Nemo Mobile: Nemomobile in June 2022. Not much progress, but when the foundations change, that's to be expected. Make sure to watch the talk!
Apps
- Megapixels has seen another release (1.5.0), featuring what Martijn outlined in his video below.
- Tokodon 22.06 now features a Notification view and supports more instances. Via Blort, thanks!
Worth noting
- If you are a Librem 5 owner and have had trouble with charging, you're going to find this thread on Purism's forums helpful. Great work, Quarnero!
- If you've been looking for a Phosh specific settings app that helps with scale-to-fit and feedbackd, Guido Günther has been cooking something nice!
- If you've got a PinePhone Convergence Edition and have been looking for a dock, now you can print one!
- If you've been wanting to run your PinePhone in 4G only mode (may work for other phones two), and have Tor ready, RTP has something nice for you! I don't have Tor setup on the device I am writing this on (a Librem 5) and thus did not test it yet.
- Doom on a Modem? Why not!
Worth reading
PinePhone Pro Camera progress
- megi's PinePhone Development Log: Further Pinephone Pro camera development. Great work! (I must admit that the last sentence saddens me a bit though.)
Competition
- fossphones.com: Linux Phone News - June 24, 2022. Nice roundup! Also, I am excited what comes out of this!
App news
- Günther Wagner: Hackgregator rewritten in Rust. Nice writeup!
- Alberto Mardegan: MiTubo comes to macOS.
- OMG!Ubuntu!: Clapper GTK Video App Bags Performance Boost in Latest Update. I did not test this on my mobile Linux devices yet (I don't watch enough videos on tiny screens), feedback welcome!
App Development
- lupyuen: Build a PinePhone App with Zig and zgt. Nice tutorial!
Tethering
- David Hamner for Purism: How to Enable Hot Spot and Tethering in PureOS on Your Librem 5.
Tablets
- The Changelog: I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2, hn comments. I may have some limited experience with a similar device, more on that when I find the time.
Worth watching
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 119. Great updates: Focal really seems to make progress, work on Waydroid, a first GTK3 app for the Open Store, news on Miroil and Lomiri. Still, they remain resource constrained - please help them out - e.g. hosting Q&As!
Better Megapixels
- Martijn Braam: My progress with messing with Megapixels, YouTube. Great work by Martijn and the other contributors, I just tried the new release with the new postprocessing feature, and it's notably better!
Nemo Mobile
- DevConf: Current status of Nemomobile - DevConf.cz Mini | June 2022.
- Сергей Чуплыгин: crop widget nemomobile.
Tethering
Music Apps
- baby WOGUE: Amberol Vs G4 Music | Nothing is, how it seems :p. Both these apps work great on Phones, too.
Adaptive Dialogues
Something missing?
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