Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (28/2023): How to avoid notches in Phosh and Snaps on Ubuntu Touch
Table of Contents
Also: libcamera 0.1.0, Photography on the PinePhone Pro running Sailfish OS, a status update on the Juno tablet, the PineTab V approaching assembly and more!
Commentary in italics.
Hardware
Apparently, there won't be a TH1520-powered LicheePhone, due to excessive power consumption. The phone form-factor is going to be re-evaluated with future SoCs. Honestly: This is a good decision. Also, thank you, Schimon, for sending this in!
Software
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #104 Full Text Search
- chergert: Spellchecking for GTK 4
- Matthew Garrett: Roots of Trust are difficult
- Base-Art: GNOME Web Canary is back
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi blog: Avoiding notches
- Guido Günther: If your device has a notch or cutout and you want #phosh to handle it automatically check https://phosh.mobi/posts/notch-support/ on how to describe the display properties.
- Guido Günther: If you want to prevent phosh from taking notches into account when laying out elements in the top bar use gsettings set sm.puri.phosh shell-layout 'none'
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: No TWiK post this week
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Akademy approaches. Just in case you read the last one in the first hour and missed this.
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- KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 5.108.0
Sailfish OS
Ubuntu Touch
- Unofficial Ubuntu Touch for PinePhone (Pro): v0.7.1
- fredldotme: Just released Snapz0r on the Open Store, enabling Snap support on Ubuntu Touch with ease!. Even if you (like me) are not a Snap superfan, this is great news!
- fredldotme: The levels of completeness at play here just massage my brain right!Tide, originally an iPad app, built as a Snap on the Ubuntu Touch tablet itself, using Snapcraft.
Nemo Mobile
- Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: Have you missed my talk about #NemoMobile at #DevConf? Heads up! Recordings are online.
Distributions
- Manjaro PinePhone Phosh: Beta 34
Linux
- Phoronix: Linux 6.6 Will Make It Easy To Disable IO_uring System-Wide
- Phoronix: Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates Begin Queuing For Linux 6.6
- Phoronix: Linux 6.5 Features From USB4 v2 To More WiFi 7, Unaccepted Memory, Scope-Based Resource Management
- Phoronix: Imagination Tech Rolls Out Latest PowerVR Rogue DRM Kernel Driver Patches
Stack
- Phoronix: Mesa 23.2 Feature Development Concludes With Numerous New Vulkan Extensions
- libcamera/libcamera.git - libcamera 0.1.0 release
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-07-14
Worth Noting
- PINE64official (Reddit): Which one is best for daily driver, Pinephone Pro or Pinephone beta edition?
- Lemmy - linuxphones: can an average person use a linux phone?
- PinePhone (Reddit): What is the bottleneck when it comes to linux phones becoming mainstream? Spoiler: It's more than one bottleneck.
- Purism community: Updated L5 -> Files, PuroStore - Gone! Oops.
- Purism community: XMPP: Dino for Librem 5
- Purism community: Screen calls (voice to text). Good idea!
- Martijn Braam: "First #librem5 frame in #megapixels"
- Yoshi: "By now I've been home for a wh…". PinePhone Pro impressions!
- 𖤐 MadameMalady 𖤐: "I released a very alpha version of My Waydroid Manager as a python / bash program with #gtk and #libadwaita ui today!"
- Lup Yuen Lee 李立源: "#RISCV JH7110 "PineTab-V mainboard fresh from production…"
- Robert Mader: "#ArchLinux / #danctnix now ships #Linux #megi 6.4 which has all #PinePhonePro patches for correct camera rotation and location (front/back - used for automatic mirroring in some apps and better camera naming).…"
- caleb: "LVG/libinput multitouch hack, …"
Worth Reading
- Purism: Purism and Linux 6.2 to 6.4
- Christian Peter: Forensische Sicherungsmöglichkeiten von Linux-Betriebssystemen auf Mobilgeräten This is a bachelor thesis in German. Thank you, Christian, for telling me about this, nice work!
Worth Watching
- Adrian Campos Garrido: Mobile devices and openSUSE, is it posible?
- The Linux Foundation: Camera Applications with Libcamera and PipeWire - Daniel Scally, Ideas on Board Oy
- Linux Stuff: Juno Tablet - Status July 2023
- CodeInc: PostmarketOS 23.06 Arrives for Linux Phones
- RikerLinux: Manjaro Mobile - Linux Mobile for your Smartphone
- Anino Ni Kugi: Trying out Ubuntu Touch on an External Display | Fairphone 4
- Santosh Das: Ubuntu touch installation in one plus 5
- YouTube: Fairphone 4 with Ubuntu Touch on External Display
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E373: Sailfish OS Update 4.5.0.21
- Hugh Jeffreys: Worst Phone I Ever Bought - Jolla Phone - SailfishOS. Why?! Seriously, complaining about hours of time spent after buying an item known to be "permanently locked" is beyond me. Of course there are going to be dragons!
- Joel Martin: GnuRadio fonctionnel sur le smartphone linux PinePhone Pro avec le HackRF One 👍
Thanks
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.
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