WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:15.000 Hello, and welcome to my talk about what's been new in Fash. 00:15.000 --> 00:22.000 This is supposed to be like a status update of all the things the team has worked on throughout 00:22.000 --> 00:26.000 past year. 00:26.000 --> 00:27.000 A little bit about myself. 00:27.000 --> 00:35.000 I've been using like an X-Ferf folks for half a decade, now, and I'm involved in various capacities, 00:35.000 --> 00:39.000 sometimes more sometimes less. 00:39.000 --> 00:46.000 But before going on, I do want to emphasize that the things that I'm about to present, 00:46.000 --> 00:51.960 they are obviously a team effort, and I don't want to give them the impression that it is 00:51.960 --> 00:55.320 was all my doings, yeah. 00:55.320 --> 01:04.200 OK, so let's see, for those of you who are maybe unfamiliar, 01:04.200 --> 01:09.680 or let me quickly say what kind of three things 01:09.680 --> 01:13.080 in my mind to the world fosh can represent. 01:13.080 --> 01:19.920 So the first one would be the actual graphical shell, 01:19.920 --> 01:22.680 fosh stands for phone shell. 01:22.680 --> 01:26.360 We have a couple of different projects in that space, 01:26.360 --> 01:33.360 and they often kind of follow this naming convention. 01:33.360 --> 01:37.360 And in a bit more broader sense, 01:37.360 --> 01:43.640 it is not just the shell, but also kind of ecosystem 01:43.640 --> 01:49.160 of more or less closely related components 01:49.160 --> 01:51.560 around that that you also need, 01:51.560 --> 01:56.360 of which I'll talk a little bit more on a couple of slides. 01:56.360 --> 02:00.840 And lastly, fosh can also be understood to me 02:00.840 --> 02:04.280 like a whole project movement that tries 02:04.280 --> 02:09.960 to just kind of push mainline Linux further along, 02:09.960 --> 02:15.720 and we try to contribute where we can have an impact 02:15.720 --> 02:23.560 to make these sort of phones work better for more use cases. 02:23.560 --> 02:28.040 Yeah, this is roughly what the shell looks like. 02:28.040 --> 02:31.080 So you kind of have your app overview, 02:31.080 --> 02:33.000 where it can start applications, 02:33.000 --> 02:35.720 switch to different applications, of course, 02:35.720 --> 02:41.440 you have a box screen where you can take incoming calls, 02:41.440 --> 02:47.360 see currently playing media and so on. 02:47.360 --> 02:52.160 And one of the things that we kind of have a lot 02:52.160 --> 02:54.800 in fosh's different plugins, you really 02:54.800 --> 02:57.360 don't need to take a look at all of the things 02:57.360 --> 03:01.760 that I've basically listed, what plugins they are available, 03:01.760 --> 03:05.360 either that you can use like a quick settings. 03:05.360 --> 03:08.960 So if you pull down the top bar, you get different things 03:08.960 --> 03:12.080 that you can set up and those are implemented as plugins, 03:12.080 --> 03:16.640 and the same is also true for plugins that you can have on your lock screen. 03:16.640 --> 03:21.360 So that you can access, for example, your railway ticket 03:21.360 --> 03:25.280 and don't have to unlock the phone. 03:25.280 --> 03:33.200 In terms of the stack, this is roughly what we are having. 03:33.200 --> 03:36.960 To be honest, this particular diagram is a bit data, 03:36.960 --> 03:38.720 but yeah. 03:38.720 --> 03:42.320 So you have things like more than manager and network manager 03:42.320 --> 03:44.000 for connectivity. 03:44.000 --> 03:47.920 Of course, we're building on top of Linux and regular 03:47.920 --> 03:51.520 in-it systems, components like an obsession, 03:51.520 --> 03:56.240 you know, settings, even that take care of all sorts of things 03:56.240 --> 04:00.000 from brightness to in case of IO sensor proxy, 04:00.960 --> 04:07.600 let's say phone orientation and so on. 04:08.560 --> 04:14.000 So basically, as I've alluded to earlier, 04:14.000 --> 04:18.480 we have these different components that kind of form 04:18.480 --> 04:22.960 the false experience trademark, 04:22.960 --> 04:26.800 and what, like the most important part, 04:26.800 --> 04:29.600 are obviously the shell itself. 04:29.680 --> 04:34.400 You have a compositor, like a wayland compositor. 04:34.400 --> 04:36.880 You do need an on-screen keyboard, 04:36.880 --> 04:41.040 if you want to kind of navigate a phone. 04:41.040 --> 04:44.160 Feedback D is a damon that provides 04:46.560 --> 04:52.640 haptical, haptic feedback, audio feedback, 04:52.640 --> 04:55.920 and links your LEDs. 04:56.880 --> 05:01.520 For configuring settings within a flash, 05:01.520 --> 05:05.040 we have this flash mobile settings application, 05:05.040 --> 05:07.920 which allows you to configure, for example, 05:07.920 --> 05:15.520 some of the quick settings and other things like that. 05:15.520 --> 05:18.480 Some of the perhaps lesser known components are 05:19.440 --> 05:26.480 flash pool, which is supposed to be launched on the first boot, 05:26.480 --> 05:31.520 and just give a user like the tool of what kind of things you can do, 05:31.520 --> 05:35.280 what the interaction models look like. 05:35.280 --> 05:41.280 We have a breather to kind of, like, 05:41.280 --> 05:45.840 for your display manager to lock into your session, 05:45.920 --> 05:51.120 and that's two of the fogger, like, phone breeder, 05:51.120 --> 05:55.600 is the old one, and frog, the newer one, 05:55.600 --> 05:59.920 which is also as indicated by the R written in Rust. 06:01.920 --> 06:05.840 And that makes use of, like, this lip-fosh library, 06:05.840 --> 06:08.880 or the particular Rust bindings in that case, 06:08.880 --> 06:13.040 and we have more components, like that, 06:13.040 --> 06:21.200 without a share between, or within this software project. 06:23.440 --> 06:26.080 Kind of activity wise, just by commits, 06:26.080 --> 06:32.800 to give you a rough overview of, in which areas there, 06:32.800 --> 06:35.520 they have been, there was work done, 06:35.520 --> 06:38.080 and the biggest chunk is definitely, like, 06:38.160 --> 06:41.840 for itself, followed by the composer, 06:41.840 --> 06:46.080 we have things like cell broadcast, 06:46.080 --> 06:50.080 which I'll also talk about in a second, 06:50.080 --> 06:52.960 and just to maybe give a couple of numbers, 06:52.960 --> 06:56.640 we're still following this target of six weeks, 06:56.640 --> 06:58.960 until we cut a new release, 06:58.960 --> 07:04.480 so that has totaled up to eight, like, 07:04.480 --> 07:09.760 proper new versions, and additionally, 07:09.760 --> 07:13.280 like, there were three boxics releases, 07:13.280 --> 07:16.880 when things kind of broke, or we had to adapt 07:16.880 --> 07:20.480 to the world-breaking things, and yeah. 07:23.680 --> 07:28.160 So cell broadcasts, can't support something 07:28.160 --> 07:30.480 that has been worked on this year. 07:30.480 --> 07:34.480 I'm also, in the year, before that there, 07:34.480 --> 07:39.440 where there were already some bits on both, 07:39.440 --> 07:41.840 the modern manager, and the first aside, 07:41.840 --> 07:46.240 but we've kind of expanded on that a little more. 07:46.240 --> 07:51.120 We now have this Damon called cell broadcast D, 07:51.120 --> 07:55.440 and that is kind of talking to the modern manager 07:55.440 --> 08:00.400 to fetch cell broadcast messages, and provides a storage 08:00.640 --> 08:04.960 and also gives you a way to configure, subscribe. 08:06.720 --> 08:10.080 You don't actually subscribe to specific channels, 08:10.080 --> 08:15.360 but you tell it, I want President Schoelert, for example, 08:15.360 --> 08:18.960 I mean, I don't think those are actually meant to be, 08:21.360 --> 08:23.760 those always need to be subscribed to, 08:23.760 --> 08:29.440 but you get the idea, and all the stored messages 08:29.520 --> 08:33.360 are then viewable in first mobile settings. 08:33.360 --> 08:38.400 This looks roughly like this, so you can see both, 08:38.400 --> 08:43.920 like in the top, the sort of, I'm just going to say, 08:43.920 --> 08:47.760 channels in air quotes that you can subscribe to, 08:47.760 --> 08:53.440 or what sort of alerts you want to be notified of, 08:53.440 --> 08:59.120 and in the bottom, you just have like all the historical messages, 08:59.200 --> 09:00.400 listed there. 09:00.400 --> 09:11.440 And it was pretty cool when we actually saw real cell broadcast messages 09:11.760 --> 09:16.880 coming in for like a test thing in Germany, 09:16.880 --> 09:21.120 and it's not only works on one particular phone, 09:21.120 --> 09:25.280 but here we have like, I think it's one plus six and a number of five, 09:25.280 --> 09:28.640 so sufficiently different phones are. 09:28.720 --> 09:34.240 In principle, able to display these sort of data. 09:35.840 --> 09:42.080 Another thing that was being worked on was, 09:42.080 --> 09:46.800 so you do have a kind of problem on this phone, 09:46.800 --> 09:57.280 so you want, for example, alarm clock to always go to the speaker, 09:57.440 --> 10:01.440 and not whatever happens to be currently the default output. 10:03.520 --> 10:10.960 And there was some work in wire plumber and pipe wire 10:10.960 --> 10:13.360 to kind of accommodate this. 10:13.360 --> 10:17.360 And of course, we also had like media roles back in, 10:17.360 --> 10:23.440 and post audio already, and there, it also already worked to like kind of duck 10:23.440 --> 10:25.360 and cork different audio streams. 10:25.440 --> 10:28.720 So if you had an incoming phone call, 10:28.720 --> 10:33.520 kind of your music player should maybe not blast out of music. 10:35.200 --> 10:40.400 And the other thing is all these different media roles, 10:40.400 --> 10:48.400 you probably want to have the ability to set different volumes per role. 10:48.400 --> 10:53.840 So that's, you don't run into the problem that you have your volume completely turned 10:54.800 --> 10:59.040 down. Your either phone call comes in or your alarm clock goes off. 10:59.040 --> 11:03.280 You do want to be able to hear that even if the overall, 11:03.280 --> 11:10.000 the overall volume levels are maybe not quite right. 11:10.000 --> 11:15.760 If you want to learn some more, there's this link that you can follow up. 11:15.760 --> 11:22.800 And maybe the one thing that we can say is if your application is using 11:23.200 --> 11:27.360 feedback D, you would basically already get all of this for free, 11:27.360 --> 11:33.200 because while it's currently not enabled by default, 11:33.200 --> 11:38.960 this feature yet because we're kind of wanting to have 11:38.960 --> 11:45.120 pipe wire and wire plumber releases in distrust before we switch that default. 11:45.120 --> 11:51.520 But if your application is using feedback D, you would basically get the setting 11:51.520 --> 11:56.080 of all these media roles for all the different events for for free. 11:56.880 --> 12:00.320 The mapping is internal to feedback D. 12:01.360 --> 12:05.520 In keyboard related news, 12:07.360 --> 12:11.200 there have been a couple of improvements 12:12.400 --> 12:15.280 and this video is playing very slowly. 12:16.880 --> 12:20.400 That's not good, but you can imagine 12:21.920 --> 12:27.120 that we, okay, it's supposed to show 12:27.120 --> 12:30.880 like a little top-over over the button you've pressed, 12:30.880 --> 12:33.920 which you can disable of course, but yeah. 12:34.800 --> 12:41.920 Then we also got this kind of thing which makes 12:43.840 --> 12:48.480 using the keyboard a bit nicer that if you will long press your 12:48.560 --> 12:52.240 backspace key that it would start deleting whole worlds, 12:52.240 --> 12:56.640 and it kind of just makes things a little bit nicer. 12:57.520 --> 13:04.800 And on the on the video on the right, you can see that we can also now offer 13:04.800 --> 13:11.200 emojis for completion targets, which is a very important feature. 13:12.160 --> 13:22.000 One of the things that again is not created, the videos are also 13:22.000 --> 13:27.280 stuttery, but we're having this gesture that you can use on the 13:27.280 --> 13:32.560 lock screen to kind of change brightness because if you don't have 13:32.560 --> 13:37.600 like the automatic brightness set up already, then kind of things could get 13:37.600 --> 13:45.120 awkward having to pull around the top bar and not being able to kind of properly 13:45.120 --> 13:45.760 see things. 13:48.880 --> 13:53.120 The end result probably also need not be super great, but in the 13:53.120 --> 13:59.920 file selector, we do have, you saw maybe just before for a 13:59.920 --> 14:06.240 small split second there that we're now able to generate our own 14:07.600 --> 14:11.360 generated thumbnails in the file selector. 14:16.480 --> 14:21.040 Okay and and they're supportful like detecting captive portals, 14:21.760 --> 14:27.440 if you have a connectivity check, you are set up in network, 14:27.440 --> 14:34.080 my name is John, we do have a very nice quick setting toggle for 14:34.560 --> 14:42.080 enabling this abling hotspot and not only that, but it will show you like a few 14:42.080 --> 14:46.880 alcohol that you can use to set up connection easily. 14:53.680 --> 14:54.000 Come on. 14:54.720 --> 15:05.840 Yeah, and to in terms of mobile settings, I do want to, this is not exactly new, 15:05.840 --> 15:10.400 the picture on the left, but I do want it to kind of draw attention to the fact that 15:10.400 --> 15:20.240 you can set up your own sounds to be played on incoming calls, SMS 15:20.800 --> 15:30.720 allowments and so on, and on the right, it's just set, you can configure for which types, 15:30.720 --> 15:39.120 so what kind of category a notification is in, that is allowed to unblank your 15:39.120 --> 15:45.280 your screen and light it back up, and yeah, the same also for different category, 15:45.280 --> 15:52.560 so the severity's, no they don't call it urgency, it's the world I'm looking for. 15:57.680 --> 16:06.080 Next, we speaking of kind of waking up or unblanking the screen, 16:06.800 --> 16:12.160 one of the things that you can, so that you don't once usually is, 16:13.120 --> 16:20.080 if you have, if you press your volume buttons, you usually don't want to unblank your screen, 16:20.080 --> 16:28.480 if it's not already unblanked, and you can, for the phone of your choice, if it's not already set up, 16:29.440 --> 16:41.440 provide this sort of data in, to help the composites are not unblank your screen. 16:42.240 --> 16:53.600 We do have in mobile broad spans provider info, and you set off of data that is emergency numbers, 16:53.680 --> 17:00.560 where you specify, okay, one, one, two is used for, so first of all, in my country, 17:00.560 --> 17:06.400 I can call this number, and that is used for kind of fire brigade, and so on, 17:08.320 --> 17:16.720 so please do have a look for your country, maybe if there's stuff missing, submit a patch, 17:17.840 --> 17:22.800 the same is obviously true for all other data in mobile provider info, so there's APN and so on, 17:24.480 --> 17:32.720 we do have, do not disturb mode, nowadays you can kind of also, from the quick settings, 17:34.160 --> 17:40.240 like the phone for your feedback levels, you have a little button that you can press down, 17:42.640 --> 17:50.800 same is true for all the brightness, our lock screen can now show wallpaper, which 17:50.800 --> 18:00.320 like without any CSS hacks or anything like that, and the post-market was tweaks, 18:03.120 --> 18:10.800 suit has been kind of, now my option is not not the right word, but within the 18:10.800 --> 18:20.480 first mobile settings you can have all these, you have a way to kind of change all the tweaks 18:20.480 --> 18:33.520 that are available in, okay, I think I kind of need to get a little bit quicker, one other 18:33.520 --> 18:42.080 noteworthy thing is that we found it a non-profit association, and yeah it's kind of what's 18:42.080 --> 18:53.200 to talk about all of these sort of things, and obviously text deductible in Germany, being recognized 18:53.200 --> 19:00.640 as a non-profit and donation. Welcome, if you want to get involved, there's multiple different ways 19:00.720 --> 19:07.280 that you can do that, one short thing that I do want to call out again is this nightly 19:08.560 --> 19:17.840 package is basically where the current main is daily being built and put into an archive, 19:17.840 --> 19:25.440 we do have that for Debian, and as I learned yesterday, this is also available in post-market 19:25.760 --> 19:34.720 or if you pay attention to all these talk earlier, yeah and in the future there's some things, 19:34.720 --> 19:39.680 these are just like an internet grant that I thought would be kind of noteworthy, 19:41.680 --> 19:49.040 yeah, and I think I should give it no up to you for any questions that you might have. 19:56.400 --> 20:06.880 Yes. So right now the way you don't think put it on in the middle, it's kind of like 20:06.880 --> 20:15.120 in de-mobile way. Yeah, the question was where the volume button wake up thing, 20:15.200 --> 20:26.880 if yes, that is in G-mobile, it has a, it should hardware database thing and that basically, 20:26.880 --> 20:34.160 then at the end of the day leads to some youth staff being being set and that allows the 20:34.160 --> 20:40.320 compositor to do its thing or in this case, don't do its doesn't. 20:46.080 --> 20:54.160 The question was whether I think this makes sense to move it to the device three in 20:54.160 --> 21:06.160 stats and honestly I don't know mostly because I'm another kind of person perhaps. 21:06.320 --> 21:27.200 No, yeah. Sorry I didn't get all of that. You're running 21:27.520 --> 21:30.720 flush on your TV. Nice. 21:43.840 --> 21:52.560 Yeah, so the question to kind of summarise it was to whether there's like plans or 21:52.560 --> 21:59.920 work done on improving like the best job use case. Yes, would be the short answer. 22:01.040 --> 22:09.760 We do have, so one of the things that we kind of was implemented not that long ago is for example, 22:09.760 --> 22:21.360 workspace support. I know that for example, like Leeds developer has been using flush on his 22:21.440 --> 22:29.840 laptop since I think probably basically the first version ever. So yeah, there's definitely 22:29.840 --> 22:39.600 interest in that area. Not exactly in what you were asking, but I think the landscape 22:39.600 --> 22:46.800 story could also generally be improved and that may have some, some overlap just because the 22:46.880 --> 22:58.160 orientation is similar. Okay, I'm sorry the time's up, but you can ask me later. 22:58.160 --> 23:04.480 Okay. Okay, quick question. How do you choose a picture you're working on? 23:05.280 --> 23:14.480 How I choose a feature to work on basically I, it depends on my personal level of annoyance. 23:16.800 --> 23:22.880 Okay. Yeah. All right. Thanks.