Guido Günther @agx@librem.one

The at-mention above should have been @gauthamx

phosh 0.32.0 is out 🚀📱:

More fixes in #phosh and #phoc ➕ allows to reorder lock screen plugins (thanks gauthamx@mastodon.world) ➕ improvements in phosh-osk-stub's virtual-keyboard mode in non US layouts (e.g. for electron apps) and initial #varnam support for Malayalam.

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.32.0/

#librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile #gtk #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux

Sources are at https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-ev/

Next thing needed is a "stop charging" button as some charging stations don't allow for that either 😞 . The data leaking involved here is also concerning but as it is sent out no matter what, let's at least make it usable via #FreeSoftware too.

Had the need to charge an all electric Kia recently and guess what: both the charging stations app and the vendor's app are proprietary so how would I know when charging finished?

Turns out people around #HomeAssistant figured out the vendor API so I could use that to have a small app to monitor the charging status on my #Librem5 running #phosh

#gtk #gnome #MobileLinux #ev

I had already disabled automatic HighContrast in #phosh but the last days were so ☀️ that I flipped it on again.

Thankfully this doesn't need any `gsettings set sm.puri.phosh automatic-high-contrast true` anymore but can be done conveniently in the mobile-setting's sensor panel added by @devrtz in 0.29.0.

Note that other on screen keyboards handle that well since a long time and that this really only affects the fallback to virtual-keyboard mode.

GTK apps using text-input-unstable-v3 don't care as they handle unicode via text-input so they worked well before and can even benefit from text completion.

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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:

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@junocomputers
You get a completely free operating system, please support us in developing it with detailed
reports rather than pushing end user support upstream.

At the very minimum check with the communities upfront how to best interact and supply them with hardware.

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Dear @junocomputers if you sell computers and use Free Software Operating systems it is not o.k. to assume you can free ride on community support.

It makes me sad to have mails from users in my inbox that are stuck with an unusable device on a Sunday and are seeking help to get it going again. This is your job.

Please listen to your customer's issue. If it's a software issue in the latest upstream version forward it with a good description.

Screenshot is from https://junocomputers.com/product/juno-tablet/

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Related: there's a l10n on mobile BoF at Debconf23 tomorrow: https://debconf23.debconf.org/talks/107-localization-of-mobile-linux/

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Progress in supporting Indic languages in phosh-osk-stub:

- merged initial completer support for Indic languages based on libvarnam earlier this week
- have an MR to switch from libvarnam to more modern govarnam (thx @subins2000
- @arunmani is looking into making all the possible completions available
- have an MR to allow to switch between different completion engines automatically (e.g. use #hunspell for Us & De and #varnam for #Malayalam (see video below)

#phosh #LinuxMobile #gtk

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