Community meeting on October 1, 2026

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Please note new time slot

Schedule: Thursday 2026-10-01T16:00:00Z :world_map: :date:

Sailfish OS Community Calendar (ICS format)

Even if you do not participate, topics tend to generate discussion. I want to see discussion happening. Thus, I’m proposing that we’d use 10mins as minimum topic duration. Maximum 6 topics a week. We’ll continue with the extended 90 mins meeting duration.

Jolla to check action points from the previous meeting. We agreed today that we’ll start to follow up action points on each meeting.

Topic proposals for the meeting:

  • Add your name/nick using the template below to suggest a topic.
  • Indicate how much time you’ll need so we can time-box the meeting accordingly.
  • Please be as thorough as you can with your question/topic.
  • If you can’t make the meeting please ask and name a substitute.

It is expected that you show up and present your topic, or name a substitute and make sure they attend in your absence. These IRC meetings are for real time participation and live discussions, otherwise you can post the topic on here and get responses that way.

We need you to be present to clarify details in the topic, and to ensure the discussion is leading to the answers you are looking for! If you do not participate or your question/topic isn’t clear enough it will be postponed. Also: always ask for more time than you anticipate your topic needs!

Please have your topics ready at least 3 days before the meeting so we can prepare good answers. Topics announced afterwards will be postponed to the next meeting.

Template for topic proposal: (post your topic proposals as comments to this forum topic).

  • Name/IRC nick:
  • Topic:
  • Some details about the topic:
  • Approx. time needed:
  • Substitute (optional):

Open Pull Requests:
If you have, or know of, a pull request that’s been open for at least 3 weeks, but which you think deserves attention, please add a comment using the template below and we’ll consider it during the next meeting.

  • Name/IRC nick:
  • Open PR URL:
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Name/IRC nick: jojomen
Topic: Quick app switching gesture
Some details about the topic:
The Quick App Switching gesture works really well and I find it essential in my everyday phone usage. Apparently, I’m not alone in this: Switching between 2 apps more easilly (eg password manager)

Edit: This has also been frequently requested by many new members brought here by the Jolla Phone.

However, to enable the gesture one has to issue a dconf command in the terminal. Please, could we have a toggle for this gesture in the Settings app, section Gestures?

(It can also be set from the pulley menu of the Edge Swipe Control app by @nephros, but it is still pretty hidden.)

Approx. time needed: 5 min
Substitute (optional): I hope I can make it

(edit: Reposted from Community meeting on July 16, 2026)

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+1 for this and it was raised also in last community meeting. Jolla employees said that they will look in to it and thought that to be good idea!

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Name/IRC nick: muhnschein
Topic: Harbour policy: allowing a bundled helper executable
Some details about the topic:
Harbour only allows ELF files at /usr/bin/<NAME> or as .so libraries under /usr/share/<NAME>/lib/. This blocks apps like Piirit that bundle an upstream helper binary and run it as a subprocess. There are many legitimate use cases for this.
Proposal: allow ELF executables in an app-private directory (e.g. /usr/libexec/<NAME>/), under the same conditions as the main binary (no setuid/setgid, no group/world-writable modes, dynamic libraries on the allow-list).
More context: Harbour policy: allowing a bundled helper executable (re Piirit).
Approx. time needed: 10-15 min (wild guess, this is my first rodeo)
Substitute (optional): -

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  • Name/IRC nick: nicov84
  • Topic: Touchscreen nearby taps detected as drag gesture (bug?)
  • Some details about the topic:
    As per BUG report by @HtheB, the touchscreen seems to detect subsequent, close distance taps as drags. This causes some apps (standard keyboard, futo keyboard) to misbehave.
    For the standard keyboard, this results in sudden layout changes. For futo, in problematic swiping and typos.
    Is this a hardware issue or can the sensitivity/behavior be tuned in software?
    Two near-simultaneous taps with different fingers are delivered as a single touch point dragging between them
  • Approx. time needed: 5 mins
  • Substitute (optional): none - Sorry, I am unable to attend :frowning:
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Name/IRC nick: jojomen
Topic: Visibility of spare parts for the Jolla Phone at commerce.jolla.com
Some details about the topic:
I didn’t find the spare parts in the new shop and assumed they were just not available yet. But then I stumbled upon this comment Are the Jolla phones not shipping to the USA? - #26 by makrolon, where it turns out they are just a bit hidden.

Could we have all items visible by default in the online shop, please? Or, if that would be too cluttered, at least a clearly visible option to show the different categories/collections you have defined.

more comments and suggestions: Are the Jolla phones not shipping to the USA? - #27 by teleshoes

Approx. time needed: 5 min
Substitute (optional): I’ll try to make it

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Name/IRC nick: muhnschein
Topic: Jolla Store: Fix screenshot presentation
Some details about the topic:
Jolla Store seems to crop screenshots submitted via Harbour. Without having measured them, these seem like the screen dimensions of the original Jolla Phone. Screenshots with other dimensions are cropped so that top and bottom are missing.

While some work around this with letterboxing, this is evident in most of the apps recently added to the store:

  • Sail Prompt
  • Straps
  • Cookbook
  • Radar (Find my Device)
  • BitSailor
  • Meliona
  • Frostlife
  • Sailstream for Plex
  • […]

This is neither mentioned in the Harbour interface nor strictly necessary - and rather unfortunate for the developers.

I’m kindly asking for this to be fixed and hope that this is the right place.
Approx. time needed: <5 min
Substitute (optional): -

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Name/IRC nick: MikkoTenhunen

Topic: Android App Support: PIN Code and Authentication Issues

Some details about the topic: Many Android applications that rely on secure authentication methods appear to have problems inside Sailfish OS Android App Support. I would like to know whether Jolla has made progress on fixing Android PIN code, biometric authentication, and secure credential storage related issues.

In particular:

  • Do banking applications now support PIN code authentication correctly?

  • Do authenticator applications (2FA/TOTP apps) work reliably with device security features?

  • Are there known limitations in Android App Support regarding Android Keystore, biometric APIs, or PIN protected authentication?

  • Is there an estimated roadmap or planned improvements for banking and authentication apps?

This information would help users understand the current status of Android application compatibility and security related functionality on Sailfish OS.

Approx. time needed: 10 min

Substitute (optional): -

This topic should fit well with the new minimum 10-minute topic duration for the 1 October 2026 community meeting.

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If it can be added, are there any plans to improve the Harbour store platform?

“Android™ apps

Your existing Android™ apps can dock here too and will work on SailfishOS. Join the Jolla developer fleet and submit your app to Jolla Store today for free.”

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Should there be a que number how many apps in que? Some other improvement? Developers could answer to feedback now i cant see comments or reply?

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  • Name/IRC nick: sharks
  • Topic: Community Port - X10V and X10IV AAS update
  • Some details about the topic: Per the 03/09/26 community meeting, I’ve attempted reaching out a few times over the last month on #sailfishos on IRC to see if anyone from Jolla can let me know what is required of me to assist / accelerate AAS progress for the community port.
    Given I’ve not received any reply, I am reaching out again here. Are you able to give us any news? After all, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
  • Approx. time needed: 5 mins
  • Substitute (optional): I cannot attend due to timezone issues as usual.
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  • Name/IRC nick: MiPal75

  • Topic: Jolla Phone 2026 Wi-Fi hardware: 1x1 or 2x2 MIMO?

  • Some details about the topic:

Could Jolla please confirm one specific hardware specification of the Jolla Phone 2026 WLAN subsystem:

Is the Jolla Phone 2026 physically designed for 1x1 or 2x2 Wi-Fi MIMO?

Several real-world tests indicate that the Jolla Phone 2026 currently operates using only one spatial stream. This has been reproduced by more than one user and with different access points. At the same time, iw phy phy0 info advertises HE MCS support for both NSS 1 and NSS 2.

There is an existing forum discussion with measurements here:

https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-2026-wi-fi-6-throughput-appears-limited-to-400-mbit-s-480-mbit-s-phy/32719

I have also asked Jolla Customer Care for clarification but have not received an answer.

I am specifically not asking whether the current Wi-Fi connection happens to operate as 1x1. I would like to clarify the physical design of the phone:

  • If the WLAN hardware/RF/antenna design is 1x1, then the observed behaviour is expected and the question is answered.

  • If the phone is physically designed for 2x2, then the fact that multiple devices appear to operate as 1x1 may warrant investigation of the driver, firmware or configuration.

A confirmation from the Jolla hardware team of “1x1” or “2x2” would therefore be sufficient.

  • Approx. time needed: 5 minutes

  • Substitute (optional): -

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Minutes: #sailfishos-meeting: Sailfish OS, open source, collaboration -- October 1, 2026
Minutes (text): https://irclogs.sailfishos.org/meetings/sailfishos-meeting/2026/sailfishos-meeting.2026-10-01-16.00.txt
Log: #sailfishos-meeting log

Next meeting here

And like @abranson said, I was in a Transit and still am.

In a Transit
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Here’s the Sailfish Settings Labs repository like discussed in the community meeting last week. Please split your contributions into multiple PRs so that those are easier to review.

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GitHub - sailfishos/sailfish-settings-labs: Sailfish Settings Labs · GitHub ?

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Thanks, was just about to go looking myself!

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Amazing, thank you @rainemak ! Now, pretty please, could someone make PR to add GUI option for Switching between 2 apps more easilly (eg password manager) - #5 by davidrasch ? :slight_smile:

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I think I read somewhere that there is already a GUI option for that in some patch by @nephros

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I’m sure there is, I would just like to have that option visible to all users, even for us that don’t use patchmanager :slight_smile: As I think that is super cool and useful gesture!

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Application, not patch, buy yes. Edge Swipe Control.

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