Free Software Activities February 2024

Fri, 1 Mar 2024 17:07:00 GMT

A short status update what happened last month. Work in progress is marked as WiP:

GNOME Calls

Landed support to pick emergency calls numbers based on location (until now Calls picked the numbers from the SIM card only): Merge Request

Bugfix: Fix dial back - the action mistakenly got disabled in some circumstances: Merge Request, Issue.

Phosh and Phoc

As this often overlaps I've put them in a common section:

Prepare and release Phosh 0.36.0 and upload to Debian

phoc: Implement always on top and allow to move to corners via keybindings: Merge Request, Demo

phoc: Wire up support for fractional-scale-v1 protocol: Merge Request. Issue

phoc: Go with the flow and don't use APIs that will be removed in wlroots 0.18, thus switch to render pass: Merge Request

phoc (as art of my ongoing cleanups to make the code base more approachable):

Make PhocServer private: Merge Request

Move drag-icon handling into it's own file: Merge Request

phosh: load backgrounds asynd and handle dark theme URIs: Merge Request

WiP: Allow to use wallpapers in lock screen and overview: Merge Request 1, Merge Request 2, Merge Request 3

phosh: Add a caffeine quick-setting: Merge Request, Demo

phosh and phoc bug fixes

Fix Maximized map of X11 surfaces: Merge Request

vpn fix: Merge Request

Fix crash around emergency calls: Merge Request

Honor disabled locking when there's no lock delay: Merge Request

Testsuite improvements:

Speedup tests: Merge Request

Load plugins in tests: Merge Request

release gmobile 0.0.6

Phosh Tour

Allow for hardware specific pages: Merge Request

Catch up with library and CI improvements: Merge Request

Phosh Mobile Settings

Filter lockscreen plugins on lockscreen page: Merge Request

Phosh OSK Stub

Add OSK side workaround for splash timeouts until GTK side is merged: Merge Request

Update emoji data: Merge Request

Livi Video Player

Remember stream position: Merge Request

Label SDH subtitles: Merge Request

Show controls when window becomes active: Merge Request

Phosh.mobi Website

Directly link to tarballs from the release page, e.g. here

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