Some progress to handle notches / cutouts of #linuxmobile phones better in #phosh : I have a small lib that gets panel cutout / notch information as #svg paths and can calculate a bounding box . #phoc can use it to render cutouts for debugging and #phosh can use it for layout (so far only to shift the panel down). (see follow up posts for more pictures).
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phosh using that information to push the top panel down because there's a (simulated) notch:
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And this is how it looks on a device with notch. Also enabled PHOC_DEBUG=cutouts so phoc renders the bounding box of these.
@craftyguy @joao Interesting. That's basically what happens with this MR atm.
So no one will be able to say: look at how google does it ;)
heh, I have looked at Android source code a few times to see how they solved a problem I have been having. In general, the answer is they implimented the first thing I thought of but figured that wasnt a great idea.
*shrug*
@joao optional features (battery percentage, date, ...) are ignored for the calculation - there's not enough space (there isn't even enough space without a notch). There's also the language indicatore for example and the two kill switches.
Landscape: we don't clamp the space on purpose yet. That's a job for the compositor and we want some wayland protocol for that so it's a different topic.