LINux on MOBile

Also: New Ubuntu Touch images for PINE64 devices, GNOME 45 (and plenty apps with awesome libadwaita 1.4 improvements), improvements to phosh-osk-stub, DebConf23 videos and more!

Commentary in italics.

Software

Gnome Ecosystem

• This Week in GNOME: #114 Forty-five!
• jangernert: NewsFlash 3.0. Beautiful!
• Phoronix: GNOME 45 Released With New Apps, New Activities Indicator

Phosh

• Guido Günther: When splitting phosh-osk-stub out of #phosh one of my goals was "use it from day one". This required to hack in a virtual-keyboard driver so Electron apps (and other apps that can't deal with text-input-unstable-v3) can fall back to "emulated key presses" instead of using an input-method.Prompted by input from Kai Lüke who (rightly) pointed out that the German layout was missing symbols in virtual-keyboard mode I revisited the situation and we can now handle more languages:1️⃣ /2️⃣

Plasma Ecosystem

• Nate Graham: This week in KDE: an unfrozen panel for NVIDIA Wayland users
• Volker Krause: Nextcloud Conference 2023
• Planet KDE: GSoC '23: Wrapping Up Nice improvements to mobile Okular!

Sailfish OS

• Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 21st Sep, PINE64
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 38
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 37
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 36
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 35
• flypig's Gecko log: Day 34

Ubuntu Touch

• UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 123
• Unofficial Ubuntu Touch for PinePhone (Pro): v0.10 This is the last Unoffical 20.04 Pine64 release, going official from then on - awesome!
• Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Today Is Q&A Day
• Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Q&A 123 Blog and audio available
• Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 124 Saturday 23rd Sept at 19:00 UTC
• Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Training Videos now available on YouTube
• Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 124 call for questions.
• UBports - Mastodon: Some of our community members co-run an @ubuntuportugal @ubports stand at #FestaSoftwareLivre2023/#UbuconPortugal2023 last weekend.
• Jozef Mlich on Fosstodon: Small change to #amazfish and big joy to me. Finally, I can see battery level.https://github.com/piggz/harbour-amazfish/pull/271#ubports

Kernel

• phone-devel: [PATCH v2 0/2] MPM pin mappings for MSM8226 and MSM8974
• phone-devel: [PATCH v4 0/2] leds: Add a driver for KTD202x

Apps

• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Bluetooth Connect Thanks Andy for creating and adding the app!
• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Flatsweep
• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Letterpress
• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Francis
• LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Jogger Expect more apps to land soon-ish, as this thing finally makes creating listings a lot easier. It still has a few issues and low hanging fruits that should be added, once these are ironed out/done it will become a proper part of LinuxPhoneApps.org.

Matrix

• Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2023-09-22
• Matrix.org: Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
• Matrix.org: Better authentication, session management and permissions in Matrix

Stack

• Phoronix: Blumenkrantz Optimizes Mesa Vulkan Submission Merging - Some Test Cases Improve 1000%+
• Phoronix: Wayland Color Management Protocol Posted For Weston

Releases

• Phoronix: Cairo 1.18 Released - First Stable Release In Five Years
• Phoronix: Mesa 23.1.8 Released While Waiting On Mesa 23.2

Worth Noting

• Lemmy - linuxphones: T-Display S3 Pro, a solution designed for portable applications that require multi-touch display support.
• PINE64official (Reddit): What distro for a PineTab2?
• PINE64official (Reddit): What are valid ways to charge the PineTabV2?
• Purism (Reddit): Is it Dumb to Buy a Librem 5 off ebay?
• Purism community: My issues on 3erdParty Software using Librem5
• Purism community: L5 World Modem Around the Room
• @dos@librem.one: For practical reasons, photos that you #ShotOnLibrem5 are processed into JPEGs with lower quality than what the camera can do.…
• justsoup: "The mobile Full-Disk-Encryption unlocking tool unl0kr has just been packaged under Abyssal Linux's abyssal-packages. We are inching ever so closer to getting a functional initramfs up and running!…"
• Justin: "I just pushed some big updates to my #PinetabV and #Star64 plasma images. If you are already running and want to upgrade please see the release notes here: https://github.com/Fishwaldo/meta-pine64/releases/tag/v2.1 #pine64 #RISCV…"
• Guido Günther: "Regarding webapps: Have you tried chromium? …"
• Tobias Bernard: "Probably the most dramatic app makeover I've been a part of so far 🔥Kudos to @schmiddionmobile and Markus Göllnitz for getting this to such a polished state so quickly!…"
• tpikonen: "I released a small update (version 0.4.2) to Satellite, my simple #GPS / #GNSS app for #MobileLinux: https://codeberg.org/tpikonen/satellite (also in #Flathub).…"
• Fabrice Desré: "Question for the #mobilelinux folks: is it possible to replace the "homescreen" in pureOS / Gnome Mobile without having to re-implement the whole system UI? Like it's doable on Android with custom launchers? …"
• @linmob@fosstodon.org: Shift6mq Dual booting pmOS/Android questions

Worth Reading

• fossphones.com Linux Phone News - August 18, 2023 Nice round-up!
• wandy.dev: Scams, cults, and kernels: A look back on waiting for the Librem 5
• Purism: Introducing the Librem 11
• Scott Jenson: The invisible problem. Maybe mobile Linux can do better here.
  • Purism community: Improving text editing on the Librem 5

Worth Watching

• Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E383: Sailfish OS Sport Activity App "Kuri"
• UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 124
• UBports: API Call Using Fetch I Ubuntu Touch App Development #4
• UBports: API Call Using XMLHttpRequest I Ubuntu Touch App Development #3
• UBports: The Timer Component I Ubuntu Touch App Development #2
• UBports: Using Clickable I Ubuntu Touch App Development #1
• Black MOB: Linux PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition | UNBOXING & REVIEW
• Dylan G: PinePhone Pro - a Proper Pocket-PC
• DebConf 23: How many Mobile Linux Developers does it take to
• DebConf 23: Localization of Mobile Linux
• DebConf 23: Forming a SSH Cluster using old smartphones (Mobian and other OSes) - Sustainable Computing
• DebConf 23: Demo of Sxmo on Mobian Starting around 25:40.
• Purism: Introducing the Librem 11

Thanks

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