Guido Günther @agx@librem.one

If you build #Debian packages a lot and want to test drive them quickly then "sudo debi" is your friend.

@gamey @suraj_sloth …and if @kop316 hadn't picked up MMS support we wouldn't be as far as we are today on that front either.

@gamey @suraj_sloth It would be *very* nice to have support for more common protocols in one app. It's not an easy task though and needs folks working on it.

Modern chat apps include video and audio calls, etc. That's a lot of stuff to churn on. Things like libpurple or Matrix's Rust SDK can help here to some extend but it needs people diving into it 😃 So contributions are welcome.

@gamey @suraj_sloth I think the Chatty authors were very much aware of libpurple's features and limitations and blaming libpurple for anything in Chatty wouldn't be fair to libpurple.

Protocol support is more than anything else a matter of maintainer will power/interest and funding. Idk where Purism promised Signal but I don't know any Chatty developer that ever thought that more than one well supported IM protocol (besides SMS/MMS) would be realistic *without* adding additional developers.

@gamey @suraj_sloth We picked Matrix as it has server side protocol support already. This way we can get a foothold that is (once more complete and merged) already useful to users while we can work on improving the bits on the phones (to e.g. allow for wakeup/sleep cycles).

This wouldn't work with signal (https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/12490) so convincing upstream that this would be good to have would be an important step.

@phosh @suraj_sloth I hope so 😃

- libcmatrix MR: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libcmatrix/-/merge_requests/56
- Chatty MR: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Chatty/-/merge_requests/1379

While @suraj_sloth is working on the #UnifiedPush connector side in #Chatty I got a chance to add the code for registering/unregistering #Matrix push gateways in #libcmatrix and Chatty (with this I can readily round trip messages up to the UP distributor):

#phosh #LinuxMobile #adwaita #gtk

…and here are my #FreeSoftware bits for June:

https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_June_2024.html

#LinuxMobile #phosh #debian #gnome

@craftyguy Nice!

Wallpaper will be able to stretch across the top bar soon too and not require css (phoc side for that landed in 0.40.0) #shotonlibrem5:

@stefan …oder GObject (das macht das ja in etwa so)? Glib wird ja schon benutzt und dann kann man (muss man aber nicht) auch signale und properties verwenden.

@GranPC @dos @kyle I sure wish you luck with your endeavor ! Looking forward to see some of these in the wild.

@kirschner @fsfe Great initiative. Hope it works out!

Best thing for customers is to avoid Apple in the first place and rather channel money to companies supporting user freedom and the #FreeSoftware movement.

@GranPC @dos @kyle Could you maybe dump out as many datasheets, technical documentation, source code samples from the supplier as possible for the components so interested people can look into mainlining things?

@crft Just check how you can autologin with e.g. gdm or phog by following the DisplayManagers steps for autologin.

You should also be able to autologin with tinydm by either passing `-U` to phosh or making sure there's a `GDMSESSSION=phosh` in the environment.

So it's technically not a bug in tinydm but how you have configured the display manager to launch your session.