Unfortunately, the oppo-a51f has been unmaintained for quite some time
now. The original author (harutora) has disappeared and no one else
seems to have this device. The device port has several open problems:
1. The device was never added properly to upstream lk2nd, because
of a special (OPPO-specific) boot image format. Users need to
compile and install some outdated version of lk2nd, which is no
longer (fully) compatible with newer kernel versions.
2. The authorship of the Linux changes are unclear: They were created
with a "no-reply" email address and without Signed-off-by line
that clarifies the licensing of the changes and permits upstreaming
the patches.
Since oppo-a51f is the last remaining device port in linux-postmarketos
-qcom-msm8916 with this problem, I decided to drop the patches from the
kernel, at least until harutora returns or can clarify the authorship
of the created patches.
Also, moving the modemmanager.conf file from the main package to the
nonfree-firmware subpackage as Modem Manager is going to work
only if the nonfree-firmwares are present.
The soc-qcom-sdm845-nonfree-firmware dependency is now moved from
firmware-xiaomi-beryllium package to the device package.
This will make the firmware package to only depend on firmware files.
The soc-qcom-sdm845-nonfree-firmware dependency is now moved from
firmware-oneplus-sdm845 package to the device package.
This will make the firmware package to only depend on firmware files.
The soc-qcom-sdm845-nonfree-firmware dependency is now moved from
firmware-oneplus-sdm845 package to the device package.
This will make the firmware package to only depend on firmware files.
The soc-qcom-sdm845-nonfree-firmware dependency is now moved from
firmware-shift-sdm845 package to the device package.
This will make the firmware package to only depend on firmware files.
The soc-qcom-sdm845-nonfree-firmware dependency is now moved from
firmware-shift-sdm845 package to the device package.
This will make the firmware package to only depend on firmware files.
Also, pmb:cross-native is added to the package options so CI testcases
doesn't fail.
The soc-qcom-sdm845-nonfree-firmware dependency is now moved from
firmware-oneplus-sdm845 package to the device package.
This will make the firmware package to only depend on firmware files.
Also, pmb:cross-native is added to the package options so CI testcases
doesn't fail.
The soc-qcom-sdm845-nonfree-firmware dependency is now moved from
firmware-xiaomi-beryllium package to the device package.
This will make the firmware package to only depend on firmware files.
Also, pmb:cross-native is added to the package options so CI testcases
doesn't fail.
Shared package for shared gnome and phosh ui configurations
Additionally, added missing dependencies:
Both Phosh and GNOME need elogind to do sleep inhibition and to
provide pam modules. gnome-bluetooth has some small udev rule
that helps marking devices for rfkill. Given that most devices
in pmOS have a bluetooth, this should be useful as a dependency.
These were most likely copied from phosh, but not necessary in
GNOME. They safe space in the interface, but GNOME Shell is really
not that useful in very narrow devices, so adding a configuration
for such cases should be unnecessary.
The dconf configuration and installation file was needed because the
schemas `sm.puri.phoc.application.org-gnome-maps` and
`sm.puri.phoc.application.firefox` are not schemas that can be overriden.
The actual schema is `sm.puri.phoc.application`, which is a relocatable
schema. Therefore, we could use an override to specify the default,
but with a simple configuration file, gsettings cannot relocate the
schema. Therefore, the dconf configuration makes sense for these kind
of schemas. For regular schemas that can be overriden with an override
file, it is simpler to just use it.
Phosh takes care of it in a smarter way[1]. The custom override also has the
consequence of never showing closing buttons in docked mode, which can be
an inconvenience.
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/blob/main/src/docked-manager.c#L292-L295
Or in case the lines change with time:
```C
phosh_docked_manager_set_enabled (PhoshDockedManager *self, gboolean enable)
if (enable)
g_settings_reset (self->wm_settings, WM_KEY_LAYOUT);
else
g_settings_set_string (self->wm_settings, WM_KEY_LAYOUT, "appmenu:");
```
Phosh already installs these schemas by default[1] and makes them specific
to the Phosh desktop. Originally these might have been needed because
either Phosh didn't ship the overrides or/and tinydm wasn't setting the
environment variable XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP properly[2]. To verify that the
behavior of the Phosh override is working as expected one can do the following
from an ssh session (so that the full DE envvars are not set):
```bash
$ export DISPLAY=:0 # so that gsettings reset works
$ gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-date
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-date # false
$ sudo rm /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/000-postmarketos.gschema.override
$ sudo glib-compile-schemas --strict /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-date # true (which is the default)
$ export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME:Phosh
$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-date # false (from phosh override)
```
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/blob/main/data/00_sm.puri.Phosh.gschema.override
[2] https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/tinydm/-/merge_requests/12
firefox scaling was set to true before `mobile-config-firefox` existed.
In new installations false is the default, so explicitly stating false is
only necessary for upgrades. Since the default was changed in one and a half
years ago in fef3af0d75 when the
package was still in version 4, removing it should not have any impact. If
anybody had an edge installation not upgrade for more than 1.5 years, it would
definitely be wiser to reinstall than to upgrade.
Glade can be useful if you're building GTK apps on your phone when
making use of convergence, so let's unhide it. The reason it was
hidden was that it gets pulled in when building Phosh, but this
might be solvable in a better way.
Hiding of org.gnome.Extensions can probably be dropped when
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/31086
has been merged.
I'm not deduplicating the UCM files between m3 and m0 as I may not
always be able to test changes to m3, and I'd rather have a an
outdated configuration for m3 than a broken one.
Enable screen locking and embed virtual keyboard. For devices with a
hardware keyboard, this is unfavorable. For touch devices, however,
that's needed for unlocking the screen.
Additionally enable single-click behavior in file manager. This applies
also to the desktop icons. Again this is unfavorable for conventional
devices but advantageous for touch devices.
Apparently works significantly better on SHV-E210S and seems to
work about equally well on i9300. Besides, using upstream firmware
with a clear licence is nice. Also use different nvram file for m3.
unclutter-xfixes version 1.6 introduced new options --hide-on-touch
and --start-hidden. That seems appropriate enough to cover the use
cases touchscreen usage (hide cursor) and mouse/touchpad usage (show
cursor).
