Zach "earboxer" DeCook @zachdecook@librem.one

Posted an update on gemini, featuring #wvkbd #swipeGuess #suggPicker and other such #SXMO #mobilelinux developments.

gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com/capsule/2022-01-24-status.gmi

I usually publish an update on my gemini capsule on the 22nd each month, but it'll be late this month. Exciting stuff though with a wvkbd and work on suggpicker: a new suggestions selector to complement the keyboard.

@omgubuntu @postmarketOS @ollieparanoid Are you a distro maintainer who likes to change firefox's defaults? How much would you sell out for?

@neauoire Do you want someone to fix 'select by clicking and dragging right to left'?
That's one that carried over from c left (back when I wrote patches for c left).

@armen
One thing that gets me to actually use my pinephone is when the experience is better than on my android. `wvkbd -O`, micro, and senpai are examples. Hopefully tootle and gerbil get there this year, as fediverse and gemini are two things I use my phone for a lot.
(amd maybe an email and music app too)

@geotechdigital ditching the maximize button was the right move. 'Windows-style' snapping (drag window to the top to maximize) is easier and more intuitive on desktop, and those buttons are irrelevant as client-side decorations for many environments (mobile, tiling window manager, etc)

Saw this comment about #gnome4 #adwaita theme flat design that rings true:

> changing buttons to be plain icons means removing crucially important contrast between elements and weakening visual cues to the user that things are clickable. In effect it makes it harder for the brain to “parse” the interface the person is looking at and leads to users having a harder time navigating the interface

(Personally, I think icon-only buttons are a necessary evil for mobile)

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2021/10/12/platform-design-goings-on/#comment-23856

@neauoire that reminds me of when I wrote character rules for sphinx or #manticoresearch to ignore hebrew vowel markings (to fix search result highlighting). Maybe that's more related to stemming than I thought.

@zash Time for a new release?

My status update: #SXMO and #wvkbd changes (seen here first), better mobile support in #senpai IRC, #alpine 3.15 upgrade experience.
gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com/capsule/2021-12-22-status.gmi

@neauoire or in #varvara's DateTime device, the "year 65536 problem"

@silverhax there's also wtype (which in my experience works better than ydotool)

@silverhax two words: rounded corners.

BTW, is this #OpenHardware? (I love #OpenSCAD)

@silverhax I think #valent (#KDEConnect protocol) should be able to do that.

@zudn Me and my dad both found different solutions to this same problem. His choice was more expensive, mine... well you probably wouldn't consider it 😶.

Do you mind answering what size you have and what takes up so much space (besides the OS)?

If yours has an internal SD card reader, you can delay the inevitable by getting a flush, in-slot microSD adapter to offload files/infrequent programs into. (If formatted to apple's filesystem, time machine will backup it).

@PINE64 I hope we can get updates to our modems to remove the vulnerability... but all things in their time.