I really wish somebody continued the Suru icon theme or #Lomiri would switch over to Yaru. Having to hack together a way for the two to coexist is giving me a headache.
The most complex package I have ever written has been merged into #AlpineLinux! It totally has nothing to do with #Lomiri on #postmarketOS. (It actually does. It fixes a bug.)
To give you an idea of how confusing it is to package Lomiri, here is the state of the dependencies:
There are 4 versions of Lomiri, each incompatible with one other.
Two of those versions run Wayland, with only one using an actual Wayland compositor.
Only one can use Mir2, the rest using Mir1 because Mir1 and Mir2 are incompatible as well!
Oh, and did I forget to say that this trend goes for all the dependencies too?
For those wanting to give #Lomiri a try on #postmarketOS based on my last post, I wrote a quick shell script to set up the pmaports environment for you. All you have to do is run the shell script and then run pmbootstrap init and make sure to select "y" when prompted "Build outdated packages during 'pmbootstrap install'?".
#Lomiri on the #Librem5 ? Yes! In a moment of frustration, I flashed #Mobian and installed the version of Lomiri in the Debian 12 repo. It was buggy as hell and crashed after 2 minutes. I suspect this was due to the GTK app I tried to run. After it crashed the first time, it wouldn't boot again and I had to flash Mobian all over to record this video.....
#Lomiri runs surprisingly well on #AlpineLinux! I got it on one of my spare laptops (by adding the #postmarketOS repo, which might be cheating) and with a few tweaks it could be someone's actual daily driver.
Ubuntu Touch Q&A 129 is this Saturday 2nd Dec at 19:00 UTC. We will cover project news and your questions.
And you can follow it live at: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-pK_TeJwxkE
I know people are probably getting annoyed from all the #Lomiri posts from me, but here is another to push you just a bit further.
A bug with msm8953/msm8996 devices where fonts would render poorly and drop letters was fixed! Oddly enough, the fix was not the same as used in Plasma Mobile, the other QT5 desktop, but was instead the same as the fix for Phosh, the GTK desktop. One step closer to checks notes something?
#UbuntuTouch#Focal 20.04 #OTA4 is available Now We are very pleased to announce the release of the fourth stable release based on @ubuntu 20.04 brings many improvements and changes. All the details can be found in the blog:
If you have not been following @z3ntu and my work in the postmarketOS-devel Matrix room, let me fill you in. With the update of #Mir to 2.16 in #AlpineLinux, Qtmir, the "display manager" for Lomiri, cannot compile due to an entire refactor of the Mir graphics API to account for multi-GPU setups. Fixing this does not seem to be a trivial, as various portions of the Qtmir code will have to be rewritten.
In-line with my previous blog post about #Flatpak in #Lomiri I have been working on getting the core Lomiri click apps packaged for Flatpak.
Thankfully, there have been upstream efforts to do this already! Sadly it seems that the packages are out of date and barely functional, but it is something to work with!
So far I have the Lomiri calculator, clock, and filemanager running.
(1/3) After my new attempts to actually use the #Pinephone I am a little disaponted, beside of pure looks #GTK4 and #Libadwaita improved very little and fundamental issues like insane lags in applications you wouldn't expect like the Terminal, Podcast client or Tuba and annoying UI glitches barely improved whatsoever. #Kirigami is more performant but it seems to have even more glitches and small annoyances and the UI choices are often plain unfit for a mobile device and hard af to navigate.
(3/3) I ended up on Mobian because I have the Morph browser there and I really wish I could just use #Lomiri at this point. #UbuntuTouch doesn't seem like it will ever be usable on the Pinephone but their very mature QT based UI framework and seamless browser and Web-app integration go a LONG way, not to mention their app ecosystem on the Open Store. I wish we could just all use those tbh!
I would love to try Lomiri on postmarketOS. Probably my favorite out of all the mobile Linux UIs. I wonder what blockers there are from it entering the main repos? I would even consider maintaining it in the repos if I had to. I guess I'll just have to build it manually...
There is no better time to return from a hiatus than now! I guess I should re-introduce myself to anybody who sees this. I am justsoup, a person who likes #MobileLinux a little too much, specifically #postmarketOS. I have a totally healthy obsession with making #Lomiri run on it for no reason other than not being a spy for Canonical. I also tinker with Chromebooks sometimes. I run #VoidLinux as my daily driver and absolutely love #Linux (if that wasn't obvious).