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 5648935..c8d4cb3 100644 --- a/_posts/2019-02-13-Plasma-Mobile-Sprint-in-Berlin.md +++ b/_posts/2019-02-13-Plasma-Mobile-Sprint-in-Berlin.md @@ -1,72 +1,78 @@ --- title: "Plasma Mobile sprint in Berlin" created_at: 2019-01-13 17:25:00 UTC+1 author: Jonah Brüchert layout: post --- Last week, the Plasma Mobile team held the first ever Plasma Mobile sprint in Berlin. On the first day, we collected important tasks, and discussed future releases of Plasma Mobile. In the following days, we worked on the following tasks: # Documentation ![](/img/screenshots/screenshot_20190209_11.png){:width="30%" class="blog-post-image"} -Dimitris Kardarakos improved the documentation to make application development easy for everyone. -Thanks to his work, we now have a [Kirigami Tutorial](https://invent.kde.org/websites/docs-plasma-mobile-org/commit/6386a5e34ed36c67f1092108b62933be4a1645dc) +Dimitris Kardarakos improved the documentation to make development environment setup and application development easy for everyone. +Thanks to his work, we now have a [Kirigami Tutorial](https://invent.kde.org/websites/docs-plasma-mobile-org/commit/6386a5e34ed36c67f1092108b62933be4a1645dc). Moreover, the instructions to build QEMU and Virgil 3D from source have been substituted with the 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. + +# 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. # Applications Simon Schmeisser worked on our mobile angelfish webbrowser, which now [makes more use of Kirigami](https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-angelfish.git/commit/?id=335be74ee41250284ebd2e1c0cd12e386cb42515), [displays favicons](https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-angelfish.git/commit/?id=a76bd5ac1318f32e711a506a0af26949e7fe55d0), and provides [autocompletion of search queries](https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-angelfish.git/commit/?id=0b82ae2c75023e7c12aad02fcb2bbfde55dd8469). I (Jonah Brüchert) added settings for configuring a search engine and a homepage. We are planning to redesign angelfish once Marco Martin's patch for moving up windows on keyboard input has been accepted, which will allow us to move the navigation bar to the bottom. Linus worked on Kaidan, the 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. ![Kaidan and the new emoji picker](/img/screenshots/screenshot_20190209_5.png){:width="30%" class="blog-post-image"} 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://cgit.kde.org/kirigami.git/commit/?id=dfe1610ef5825f14bba78855b57130810e76a476) without requiring the app developer to add a close button. # Software center I created a [patch for discover that fixes icons being incorrectly displayed](https://cgit.kde.org/discover.git/commit/?id=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 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){:width="30%" class="blog-post-image"} # 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 for example install and use Kaidan and angelfish on it. /!\ WIP Nico Fe ... Camilo ... Dorota ... Librem 5 devkit ... Everyone else please write down what you did :) \END WIP Our first sprint was a great experience, and are happy about having become so many developers since Akademy. Marco invited us to an united Plasma Sprint, and we are looking forward to continuing our work there! We are looking forward to maybe welcome you as a new developer at our next sprint :)