diff --git a/_posts/2019-02-13-Plasma-Mobile-Sprint-in-Berlin.md b/_posts/2019-02-13-Plasma-Mobile-Sprint-in-Berlin.md index 62d6ab9..13f3d0b 100644 --- a/_posts/2019-02-13-Plasma-Mobile-Sprint-in-Berlin.md +++ b/_posts/2019-02-13-Plasma-Mobile-Sprint-in-Berlin.md @@ -1,86 +1,86 @@ --- title: "Plasma Mobile sprint in Berlin" created_at: 2019-01-13 17:25:00 UTC+1 author: Jonah Brüchert layout: post --- Last week, the KDE Plasma Mobile team held the first ever Plasma Mobile sprint in Berlin. On the first day, we collected important tasks, planned our work and discussed future releases of the project. In the following days, we had been working on the following tasks: -![Shell UI](/img/screenshots/screenshot_20190209_11.png){: .blog-post-image-right} +![Shell UI](/img/screenshots/screenshot_20190215_01.png){: .blog-post-image-right} # Documentation Dimitris Kardarakos improved the documentation to make development environment setup and application development easy for everyone. Thanks to [his work](https://invent.kde.org/websites/docs-plasma-mobile-org/commit/6386a5e34ed36c67f1092108b62933be4a1645dc), we now have a [Kirigami tutorial](https://docs.plasma-mobile.org/AppDevelopment.html#create-a-kirigami-application). Moreover, the instructions to build QEMU and Virgil 3D from the source code have been substituted with the installation of just a single snap package. He also explored new possible ways we could leverage Flatpak, and updated the website with the Debian based images. Ilya Bizyaev helped make the new documentation resources more discoverable by cleaning up old wiki pages and setting redirects where appropriate. # Infrastructure During the sanity checks of the Plasma Mobile documentation, we found out that building Flatpak for the phone was failing in KDE Neon User Edition. Since the root cause lies in the qemu-user-static and binfmt configuration in bionic, Harald Sitter provided a [workaround](https://packaging.neon.kde.org/neon/settings.git/commit/?h=Neon/release&id=e2a572c4f767aea8c3fcce08638f57e2230e8722) until the issue is handled upstream as well. # User interface The Plasma Mobile shell has been visually refreshed and brought nearer to mockups by Ilya Bizyaev. ![Kaidan and the new emoji picker](/img/screenshots/screenshot_20190209_5.png){: .blog-post-image-right} # Applications Simon Schmeisser worked on our mobile Angelfish web browser, which now [makes more use of Kirigami](https://commits.kde.org/plasma-angelfish/335be74ee41250284ebd2e1c0cd12e386cb42515), [displays favicons](https://commits.kde.org/plasma-angelfish/a76bd5ac1318f32e711a506a0af26949e7fe55d0), and provides [autocompletion of search queries](https://commits.kde.org/plasma-angelfish/0b82ae2c75023e7c12aad02fcb2bbfde55dd8469). I (Jonah Brüchert) added settings for configuring a search engine and a homepage. We are planning to give Angelfish a more Kirigami-streamlined look once Marco Martin's patch for resizing windows on keyboard input is accepted. Linus worked on Kaidan, an XMPP Messaging client for Plasma Mobile and many other platforms. Kaidan now [provides a download manager](https://git.kaidan.im/kaidan/kaidan/commit/4078f1dbe13e29a19f156b961c66c5217fdda972) to download and cache files instead of downloading them again on each start. More features and a rewritten database backend can be expected soon. My merge request to add an emoji picker to Kaidan has also been accepted. Marco Matrin fixed and improved many areas of Kirigami, enabling some of our changes in Angelfish in the first place. For example it is now possible to [leave Kirigami layers on a mobile device](https://commits.kde.org/kirigami/dfe1610ef5825f14bba78855b57130810e76a476) without requiring the app developer to add a close button. # Software management I created a [patch for Discover that fixes icons being incorrectly displayed](https://commits.kde.org/discover/502b963bcc96e5e9abb257e2cc90d3fea2212996) on the update page, and made all of our improvements and new applications available in the Debian repository. The issue of non-mobile-friendly applications being recommended in Discover on Plasma Mobile [has been fixed](https://commits.kde.org/discover/b41f8448dc229b899c6e7e811969ac9f861b9497) by Aleix Pol, who also made many new mobile friendly applications available in the KDE Flatpak repository. ![Kaidan being recommended in Discover](/img/screenshots/screenshot_20190209_2.png){: .blog-post-image-right} # Packaging Bhushan Shah worked on further improving our KDE Neon based images, which should now be up to date with the latest changes and even not yet merged patches for a better scaling of the Plasma Shell and applications. Bart Ribbers (PureTryOut) made more Plasma Mobile apps and updates available in postmarketOS, so you can now, for example, install and use Kaidan and Angelfish on it. # Community feedback We have been actively collaborating with community members during the sprint. To make sure everyone's opinion is considered in decisions we make, we have done an [AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit](https://redd.it/anspo5). /!\ WIP Nico Fe ... Camilo ... Dorota ... Librem 5 devkit ... Everyone else please write down what you did :) \END WIP ![Group photo](/img/plasma-mobile-sprint.jpg){: .blog-post-image-centered} Our first sprint was a great experience, and are happy about growing so significantly as a project since Akademy. Marco invited us to a united Plasma Sprint, and we are looking forward to continuing our work there! And who knows, maybe we will get a chance to welcome you as a new developer at our next sprint :) diff --git a/img/screenshots/screenshot_20190215_01.png b/img/screenshots/screenshot_20190215_01.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd1de0c Binary files /dev/null and b/img/screenshots/screenshot_20190215_01.png differ