Guido Günther @agx@librem.one

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/iotas is great for note taking / lists and gnome-text-editor for generic text. I like the fact that I don't have to worry about saving to a file.

@badrihippo @phosh I'm not aware of a presage cli tool that could be used in a shell pipeline which would then work to chain that and fzf together via the pipe completer. That cli would need to read json or similar as you not only need preedit but also the surrounding text.

It should be doable with not too much effort, needs some coding (both the cli tool and then the p-o-s side to feed the surrounding text to the pipe completer too).

With the fixes made in the last #phosh release and those in flight for 0.43 regarding on screen keyboard, text input, text completion and copy/paste together with small app fixes here and there I'm really starting to enjoy text input on mobile and grab the phone more often although the laptop is nearby.

I consider that a good sign 😃

@badrihippo @phosh Testing of the nightly packages is always welcome (as they shape up the next Phosh release).

There's not necessarily a need to flash as they mix well with Debian/Mobian Trixie (it behaves basically like Debian Experimental) - but booting from SD and adding the nightly repo would put you on the safe side.

@badrihippo @phosh and there's https://flathub.org/apps/org.adishatz.Screenshot which works with phosh right away (and which could be packaged for Debian too asi it has few dependencies)

@badrihippo @phosh @zachdecook Funny enough the background thing is rather more involved than lots of other things we did recently but it helped cleaning up lots of things.

Regarding screenshots: phosh's nightly builds (https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-nightly/) ship a gnome-screenshot with https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-screenshot/-/merge_requests/69 applied but we should move the UI bits into phosh eventually so we can have timers, etc as you mentioned.

@badrihippo @phosh @zachdecook I think shift should already work with the one on the keyboard. At least I've checked `<ctrl>` (from the shortcuts bar) and <shift>c` from the osk layout.

We might a need a minor fix to combine it with other shortcuts from the shortcuts bar so you can have `<ctrl>c` as shortcut and when you select `<shift>` first it gives you `<ctrl><shift>c`.

@usia @gordoooo_z

Thanks for pointing this out!

There's also some intro videos that show how to configure haptic at https://phosh.mobi/videos/

You get there via the "Phosh Tour" app. The "Getting started" at the end takes you to https://phosh.mobi/gettingstarted/ which then takes you to the videos. They can also be subscribed to via https://phosh.mobi/videos/index.xml

The videos are also mirrored on youtube for folks that fancy that over a website (https://www.youtube.com/@PhoshMobi) and want to subscribe there.

@gordoooo_z Regarding swipe input see https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-osk-stub/-/blob/main/doc/phosh-osk-stub.rst?ref_type=heads&plain=1#L286 and the thread around https://fosstodon.org/@badrihippo/113304999034923284

@andyholmes@floss.social @badrihippo @Lehmanator Thanks for the update! Could you file a bug? There's ever so often the question for a `send` API in chatty and for "DB" access and it seems TinySPARQL could be a good way forward for the later (also mentions of apps doing similar things are welcome 😃 )

@rasumi Got to check with the squeekboard maintainers for that - I would assume so though.

@sohrab I happily take patches to fix that up - preferably tested by somebody speaking the language on p-o-s as there can be ever so subtle differences.

…and #phosh-osk-stub doesn't want to miss out either:

@spv Filed that here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/issues/1131

@spv Scrolling back up I see you asked for polkit in the first place (I was reading system prompt), sorry for the confusion.

@spv polkit even has its on prompt (and DBus API) separate from system prompts (that e.g. gpg or SIM unlock uses). It's not driven by gcr so one could use a keypad for that case.

The OSK could deal with it nicely, we'd just need send that one hint over DBus and everything would fall into place.

@spv Not in the case of the prompter, that's a DBus API so the app needs to sent the hint over the channel (hence the MR). (The text-input client in this case is the shell not the app)

@spv In fact phosh would like to do it but there's currently no way for apps to indicate that a keypad would be the preferred choice: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gcr/-/merge_requests/79