Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (38/2024): GNOME 47 and updates on Plasma Apps
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Purism releasing the Librem 5's mechanical design + Crimson funding details, a new app to connect all the (GNOMEy) screens + lots of app related news, Sailfish OS 4.6.0.15, and more! Enjoy!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- Luigi311: Furilabs FLX1. Hm... a custom Firefox? Interesting.
- nokun's hut: Mirror Hall: peer-to-peer screen sharing between Linux devices
- Matrix.org: Update on Native Matrix interoperability with WhatsApp
Fluff
Worth Watching
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E435: New SFOS-Update 4.6.0.15
- TechyNoob: How to Install Sailfish OS on OnePlus 6/6T
- Lonewolf9: Ubuntu Touch os on ASUS XOOTD
- Everything Open: Exploring mobile linux security with PinePhone Pro - Yifei Zhan (Everything Open 2024)
- Neko: Music for PostmarketOS mainlining
- EveryByteCounts: Open Source Phone - PostmarketOS 24.06 with Gnome Mobile 45 - Best Performing Gnome Distribution!
- Purism: The Liberty Phone delivers uncompromising security for government mobile computing.
Worth Noting
- dos: "Purism has released the Librem 5's mechanical design, adding to already available schematics and PCB layouts.https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/3D_designs/-/blob/master/Librem5-Chassis/librem-5.stepI think that may make it the first proper Open Hardware smartphone out there.#purism #librem5 #linuxmobile #linuxsmartphones #openhardware #oshw #cad"
- janvlug: "On 1July 2024 @purism introduced optional subscriptions to advance the development of the #PureOS Linux distribution that is also used on the #Librem5 Linux #phone.Purism released this about the subscriptions:Month Net Sales Subscribers2024-07 $637.49 512024-08 $753.41 59#Purism upstreams as much as possible, so contributing to PureOS might benefit several other Linux devices.The focus is now on moving #PureOS to #Crimson.https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-optional-subscription-added-to-advance-development/#FOSS #opensource #MobileLinux"
- plasmamobile: This Week in KDE Apps contains a bunch of relevant Plasma Mobile changes. Most notably the resurrection of the Marble Mobile application and major improvements to the Itinerary trip management https://blogs.kde.org/2024/09/22/this-week-in-kde-apps/#kde #linuxMobile
- p2panda: "There's so many news that we don't even know how to make a post about it 🫣 shortly here, and more soon:1. Kick-off with our 6 people team to start working on the "event & resource sharing" app 😻2. Modularized and less opiniated p2panda stack! Release end November 😻2. Since 3 months we get support from HIRO, a company integrating p2panda as a decentralized message broker 😻4. We start with the native GTK collaborative text editor with folks from @gnome, hack fest in Berlin tba soon! 😻"
- fsfe: "💥 Software Freedom in Europe, our annual report, is out! 💥Your support has once again helped to promote software freedom! Despite ongoing financial challenges, we have raised our voice in defence of device neutrality, advocated for a dedicated #FreeSoftware budget in Europe and empowered people to take control of their technology.We're proud of the work we've done over the past twelve months, and will keep going!Read the full report to find out more: https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240920-01.en.html"
- bragefuglseth: "#GNOME third-party app developers, assemble! The GNOME 47 runtime is on #Flathub right NOW."
- danctnix: Did you know that the bottom USB-C port on your #PineTab2 now functions as a host on the latest kernel?Grab a USB-C dock and give it a try.
- rudo: "Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps. https://rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-places-to-organic-maps/"
- fosdem: "As has been foretold: https://chaos.social/@RichiH/112579960719663379#FOSDEM will happen on 2025-02-01 and 2025-02-02, we just signed the contract with ULB today!You're hearing it here first, because Mastodon is the #FLOSS social network. We'll publish official news in a bit :)". Accomation is booked, travel awaits for the day DB lets me book a train (October 13th 2024, if my quick research is accurate).
- Lemmy - linuxphones: Follow-up Two: Mobian on the Pixel 3a / 3a XL
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #166 Forty-seven!
- GNOME Shell & Mutter: Understanding GNOME Shell’s focus stealing prevention
- Planet GNOME: Introducing GNOME 47
Phosh
- phosh: Dear distro maintainers and "i build my own stuff" people: In case you want to check out 0.42.0 upfront: we've tagged the first releases candidates of #phosh and related components today. Release is planned 2024-09-30 (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/wikis/Releases)We have some more fixes pending but the bulk of things should be in.
- agx: It's the small things: If you've been bothered with #calls and #chatty seemingly starting up slowly in #phosh (while most other apps startup fast): I've posted MRs to fix this in chatty and calls (which then also prompted a small fix in phosh). Here's a quick demo of calls before and after the change:
- agx: MRs:- calls: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/merge_requests/760- chatty: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Chatty/-/merge_requests/1432
- agx: Another small detail: I often need to scroll up in #chatty to reread something when composing a msg. Going back to the last msg of the conversation by taping the 🔵 would close the ⌨️ forcing me touch into the text area again (and causing visual distraction). We can fix this by having the 🔵 not take focus. Posting this to demo it can be a one line change in a UI file to make #LinuxMobile work better. So please get involved! #Gtk 's GtkInspector is great to figure such things out.#phosh
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This week in Plasma: polishing like mad
- KDE Blogs: This Week in KDE Apps.
- KDE Blogs: This Week in KDE Apps
- Phoronix: KDE Optimizes How It Finds Mount Points - Up To 80% Speed-Up
Sailfish OS
- flypig's Gecko log: Week 49 Summary
- Sailfish OS Forums: [Release notes] Sauna 4.6.0.15 - Announcements
- #sailfishOS: there is a new update for the sailfish os of my phone. as expected it worked flawlessly on my xperia 10 III.#smartphone #handy #SailfishOS #Xperia10III #jolla #^[Release notes] Sauna 4.6.0.15Many thanks to you our active contributors for your feedback and proposals. Version history of the OS release 2024-05-20: OS version 4.6.0.11 was released to Early Access subscribers as an over-the-air update. 2024-06-06: OS version 4.6.0.12 was released to Early Access subscribers as an over-the-air update. See the brief release notes of 4.6.0.12. 2024-06-13: OS version 4.6.0.13 was released to Early Access subscribers as an over-the-air update. 2024-06-19: OS version 4.6.0.13 was released ...
- #sailfishOS: Celebrating the #JollaCommunityPhone2 #JollaC2 order progress. Upgrading the non-daily driver pile of #SailfishOS devices. Image: #JollaTablet resting safely on top of the charging phones. The #Xperia10v waiting impatiently for the tugboat to get it off the sand bank into the #SailfishOS sea. @jolla
- #sailfishOS: Time for final payment for the new #jolla C2 mobile, the Jolla Community Phone.https://shop.jolla.com/details/91eb91d3-c3de-41d0-b3c0-7075a339112d/I want to back #sailfishos as it’s a different approach to Apple and Google.
- piggz: Kernel 6.11 is now available for #SailfishOS on the @PINE64 #pinephone
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 148
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Volla Phone Quintus UT Perks
- UBports - Development - Issues: Large file transfers can cause the calling app to be reaped due to OOM errors
- fredldotme: Asahi Ubuntu 24.04 + Pocket VMs from Ubuntu Touch + KVMNooooiiice!
Distributions
- omasanori: "Thanks to everyone commented here or wherever, the final text of postmarketOS leaflet / handout / brochure / flyers / (do you know any other names for this kind of thing?) was just committed to the official artwork repository! I hope some of you will find a copy at your favorite events and enjoy reading it!#postmarketOS #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #fedidesign"
- postmarketOS: "if you're local to #Berlin, come join us for a weekend of hacking next weekend.@tbernard https://mastodon.social/@tbernard/113175875184518962 topics include (but aren't limited to)* immutable* pmbootstrap / tooling* OnePlus 6 provisioning (https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/3187)* localfirst"
- tbernard: "A bit last-minute this time, but we have a hackfest/release event coming up next weekend in Berlin feat. @postmarketOS, @p2panda, and more!More details to follow, but here's a teaser :P#gnome #postmarketos #localfirst #berlin"
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: [geary] can't add account
- postmarketOS pmaports Merge Requests: Draft: linux-google-nyan,linux-sourceparts-pocketpc,linux-postmarketos-mediatek-mt8173,linux-postmarketos-mediatek-mt8183,linux-postmarketos-rockchip,linux-p...
- DanctNIX (Mastodon): What is the best UI for the #PineTab2 ?I might use this data for the next PineTab 2 image!GNOMEPlasma DesktopPhoshLXQt
Apps
- tuxdevices: "🪞 Introducing Mirror Hall, an app to turn any Linux devices into a second wireless monitor!We use semi-custom P2P screen sharing optimized for low latency. Only Mutter-based DEs are currently supported as senders, whereas all DEs work as receivers.This is our first unstable release, sp please be kind and report issues. If you are an #ARM user, we would love your help testing the gstreamer pipeline on new phones! https://notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22-mirrorhall/ #linux #opensource #foss #gnome #apps #gstreamer"
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Shutter
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Binary
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Arca
- postmarketOS: Apps by Category: Sohrabbehdani: /* Clients for various web services */
- postmarketOS: Apps by Category: Milesalan: Add transito app
- piggz: "I recently started using #navidrome to manage my music, so naturally, I had to write my own #subsonic compatible client. Its using @kde Kirigami2 so will take a little effort to get running on #SailfishOS. https://github.com/piggz/supersonik"
- cassidy: "Adwaita is really pretty freaking great. It makes designing responsive apps just… easy?? Here’s an update to Butler, my Home Assistant app, for GNOME 47 and Adwaita 1.6.Update coming soon to Flathub!#GNOME #Adwaita #Flatpak #Flathub #HomeAssistant #Linux #OpenSource"
- sohrabbehdani: From now #Carburetor is also available inside Alpine Testing Repositories.I had updated the related page in #postmarketos wiki.https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Tor#linuxmobile #tor
- rolandlo: "As I have abandoned Android and am now daily-driving Gnome mobile / PostmarketOS on my OnePlus 6, I feel the urge to contribute to filling the app gap. Nobody seems to have asked for an app to record push ups and track progress, but that's what I want to accomplish now. Here are some first impressions of my Libadwaita app, which I call "Pushup Sessions":#Oneplus6 #linuxmobile #PostmarketOS #GnomeMobile"
- jane: I'm slowly landing on a nice UI with relm4. It's so nice to work with libadwaita.(no image alt text right now. going to sleep now)
- monster: I’m currently working on a new Python WebKitGTK browser for GNOME. I’m aiming for it to be a better foundation to work on than Epiphany which has a huge C codebase and some outdated UI patterns. :blobcat_engineer:#GNOME
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