phosh v0.20.0~beta3

New features

  • This is a beta release
  • Support plugins on the lock screen (only an example plugin is shipped for now)

Maybe noteworthy

  • Many bug fixes related to the overview, lockscreen, osk handling, screen rotation, tests and drag_surfaces.
  • Add a symbolic icon for phosh
  • Contributors:
    • Alexander Mikhaylenko
    • Guido Günther
    • Sam Hewitt
    • Sebastian Krzyszkowiak

i18n updates

  • UI translations:
    • Efstathios Iosifidis (el)
    • Vittorio Monti (it)
    • Zurab Kargareteli (ka)
    • Мирослав Николић (sr)

Detailed changes

phosh (0.20.0~beta3) experimental; urgency=medium
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  [ Guido Günther ]
  * lockscreen: Drop am/pm from time formats (Closes: #103)
  * data: Install and add icon to desktop file.
    This will allow us to use it in e.g. phosh-mobile-settings panels.
  * tests: Allow for phosh's icon.
  * build: Adjust to polkit version changes.
  * build: Rename config.h to phosh-config.h.
    Otherwise we end up including config.h from elsewhere e.g. gvc.
  * testlib: Kill compositor on SIG{ABRT,SEGV,TRAP}
  * drag-surface: Add threshold getter. For symmetrie with the setter.
  * drag-surface: Remove drag_surface_new (). The created object is not very
    useful as we need to setup layer-surface too.
  * drag-surface: Fix argument type. Fold margins are integers.
  * tests: Add drag surface test.
    This way we at test the setters and getters.
    Fixes: 578a666f7fb69553bdf82ff8ab390467ab25165f
  * tests: Don't change signal handlers when ASAN is in use.
    ASAN wants to tweak these so don't touch them in these cases.
  * build: Abort post-install on missing arguments.
  * gitignore: Ignore i18n related generated files
  * lockscreen: Avoid some keyboard filtering when not on unlock page.
    This allows for keyboard navigation with the upcoming lockscreen plugins
    and emergency call support.
  * Add widget box to lock screen.
    The widget box loads plugins that implement the phosh-lockscreen-widget
    extension point and puts them on the lock screen.
    Swiping to the left switches to the plugins if at least one is enabled.
  * build: Generate module cache on install
  * tools: Add standalone widget-box.
    This allows to test the lock screen plugins without
    running phosh itself.
  * plugins: Add minimalistic calendar plugin.
    It implements the phosh-lockscreen-widget extension point. It's
    main purpose is to have a minimalistic example.
  * debian: Install plugins.
    We use an extra binary package so people can easily get rid of
    plugins and their dependencies. It will also help splitting things
    into a separate repo later.
  * debian: Add trigger for plugin directory.
    Run gio-querymodules to build the cache. Most of this copied
    from Debian's glib package.
  * monitor-manager: Drop useless ref.
    We unref right away anyway (by automatic cleanup) at the end of the
    function
  * monitor-manager: Make different enum types explicit.
    PhoshMonitorTransform and wl_output_transform have the same values
    but don't convert implicitly.
  * monitor: Add helper to detect "tilted" transforms.
    We consider a transform to tilt the display if it changes the
    display orientation from portrait to landscape or vice versa.
  * head: Make header private.
    PhoshHead should only be used by PhoshMonitorManager (and tests).  We
    had it in the comments, reflect it in the file name too.
  * monitor-manager: Move transform setting to PhoshHead.
    It only affects the heads which will ease testing.
  * monitor-manager: Adjust layout when rotating an output.
    When rotating an output we need to adjust outputs left and below the
    rotated output to avoids gaps or overlaps in the layout.
    We shift all these heads whether they're currently enabled or not.
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  [ Sam Hewitt ]
  * icons: Add symbolic icon for Phosh
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  [ Sebastian Krzyszkowiak ]
  * tests/stubs: Add phosh_shell_get_docked
  * overview: Raise toplevels on activity scrolling.
  * shell: Don't fold the top panel and keyboard on unfolding home screen.
    This isn't necessary anymore.
  * ui/lockscreen: Set the PIN entry to be initially insensitive.
    We change sensitivity based on carousel page in C code, but
    the initial state stayed out of sync, which could cause
    the keyboard to pop up right after locking the screen.
    Fixes: 5300ba2ce ("lockscreen: Use entry focus to request OSK")
  * stylesheet: Remove background from keypad's focused buttons.
    Focus doesn't do much there as the lockscreen intercepts keyboard
    input by itself, so don't display any visible focus indication
    to not confuse users.
  * lockscreen: Focus PIN entry on carousel page change when OSK is on.
  * lockscreen: Focus PIN entry regardless of OSK status.
    Won't hurt, but seems like a good idea that may help accessibility tools.
  * stylesheet: Apply lockscreen PIN entry styles also to disabled state.
    Otherwise caret-color may end up being animated when toggling sensitivity.
  * home: Remove duplicated "unfold on no activities" handling.
    It's already taken care of by PhoshShell.
  * shell: Only fold the home screen when the first toplevel is added.
    Folding when any window appears can get annoying if the user unfolds
    the home screen while waiting for an app to launch (for example to launch
    another app simultaneously).
  * home: Don't (un)fold while being dragged.
    Don't forcefully pull the surface out from under the user's finger.
  * overview: Focus the activity on carousel page change.
    Without this, we may end up scrolling back to some previously
    focused activity on carousel focus if the active activity has
    changed while the carousel wasn't focused.
  * overview: Focus the activity right away when scrolling to it.
    This fixes the same issue as the previous commit, but in cases
    where scrolling has been invoked programmatically by phosh and
    the animation hasn't finished before PhoshHome gained focus.
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  [ Alexander Mikhaylenko ]
  * docked-manager: Update gtk4 is-phone setting too.
    Since gtk4 needs to be parallel-installable with gtk3, it ships its own
    schema. Change it as well.
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  [ Efstathios Iosifidis ]
  * Update Greek translation
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  [ Vittorio Monti ]
  * Update Italian translation
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  [ Мирослав Николић ]
  * Update Serbian translation
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  [ Zurab Kargareteli ]
  * Update Georgian translation

Required versions of related projects

  • glib >= 2.72.0
  • gnome-calls >= 42
  • gtk3 >= 3.24.30
  • gtk4 >= 4.6.2
  • phoc >= 0.21.0~beta1, wlroots = 0.15.1
  • squeekboard >= 1.15.0

Patches that are merged upstream but not yet in a released version:

Patches that aren't merged upstream yet:

Recommended patches on other projects

Patches that are merged upstream but not yet in a released version:

Patches that aren't merged upstream yet:

See meson.build and debian/control for build-time and run-time dependencies.

For older releases

These are only some of the required/recommended patches. If in doubt please use the released versions above: