Sailfish Community News, 25th August, Coffee

bundyo · 25 August 2022 06:57

Will Discourse upgrade bring dark mode?

vige · 25 August 2022 07:04

Minor correction regarding MPRIS: Amber.Mpris was already allowed when Sailfish OS 4.4.0 was released. For some reason that didn’t make the headlines at the time, but it’s there already. Documentation is available at Amber MPRIS - Sailfish OS.

bundyo · 25 August 2022 07:11

Another question - what about official SFOS QML bindings for Rust? Maybe based on https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs?

thigg · 25 August 2022 07:12

Thanks for featuring me. If you want you can download Sailing to Java from this github release already

rubdos · 25 August 2022 08:49

I’m told that the authors of qmetaobject-rs will be deprecating their library. They seem to be working on cxx-qt now.

I cannot imagine Jolla exposing official SFOS QT bindings any time soon, given that there’s no “one” Rust-Qt library.

I think some official Rust support (and occasional updates) would be great, however That said, I should continue working on my Rust 1.61 update…

fph · 25 August 2022 09:25

An implementation of the Flood game is also included in the Android port of Simon Tatham’s Puzzles (available with the name “Puzzles” on F-Droid). It’s an excellent puzzles app.

Seven.of.nine · 26 August 2022 18:52

What about Ambience White on Black?

filip.k · 26 August 2022 22:19

I didn’t try on phone. Great if it works. But I don’t find anything in that direction on this Discord on “PC” platform. Any ideas?

meolic · 27 August 2022 06:28

Sorry for a dumb question, but how do I send a coffee (i.e. donation) to the dev? Is there a single platform (link, please) or every dev has different approach?

ric9k · 27 August 2022 06:47

Hi,
There are different approaches.
But often, you can find how to donate or contribute in the “about” of your favorite apps.
There is also this thread which contains links for coffees:

flypig · 27 August 2022 11:58

Yeah, not a dumb question at all, but a very good one. Just as @ric9k points out, different devs provide different routes, and some don’t yet provide any at all. As well as the “about” page that @ric9k has already mentioned, I’d also suggest checking the app’s OpenRepos page as it’s common for app maintainers to post links there as well.

nephros · 27 August 2022 13:03

For devs publishing on Chum, there is a metadata field for donation links:

github.com

sailfishos-chum/main/blob/main/Metadata.md

# Additional metadata for SailfishOS:Chum

The basic specification for the additional metadata is [that of AppStream](https://freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#spec-component-filespec).
While it is a goal to leverage AppStream metadata directly for SailfishOS:Chum packages and the SailfishOS:Chum GUI application, we are not at that stage yet, and are instead using a method of embedding metadata in the `%description` section of the RPM spec file.

Note that it is important, that the part from the `%if "%{?vendor}" == "chum"` to the `%endif` is the last and a contiguous paragraph of the `%description` section, i.e., it must not contain empty or comment lines (or any other line, which is evaluated to an empty line).
If you need comment lines for remarks with regard to the SailfishOS:Chum metadata, place them outside of the whole metadata paragraph, as shown in the example.

Also note that embracing the metadata for SailfishOS:Chum by `%if "%{?vendor}" == "chum"` / `%endif` is not strictly necessary: If the `%if…` and `%endif` lines are both omitted, the metadata for SailfishOS:Chum is displayed as part of the package description by common tools as `pkcon`, `zypper`, `rpm` etc.
Nevertheless, metadata for SailfishOS:Chum always must be contiguous (i.e., without lines which are empty or may be evaluated to become empty) and the last paragraph of the `%description` section.

An example of how this is done follows:
```
%description
A camera application for Sailfish OS, which provides advanced features. 

# This description section includes metadata for SailfishOS:Chum, see
# https://github.com/sailfishos-chum/main/blob/main/Metadata.md
%if "%{?vendor}" == "chum"
PackageName: Advanced Camera

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enrish · 28 August 2022 17:04

Thank you for the informative post, making technicalities clear to non-techies. A lot of coffee news, I hope to see the sailing-to-coffee project take off and its author popular in the thank you thread. Oh, and thank you for endorsing the thread early on, that does make a difference.

nephros · 29 August 2022 07:13

I haven’t tried, but Firefox UserCSS works in principle on Sailfish Browser.

So you could try something like https://github.com/StylishThemes/Discourse-Dark
But I guess UserCSS is a topic for another thread.

[EDIT:] yes that does work, except for some elements like embedded content.

rubdos · 1 September 2022 07:13

I was told that I’m mistaken. They’re working on something else now. This is maybe a useful table: https://github.com/KDAB/cxx-qt#comparison-to-other-rust-qt-bindings

Kuba77 · 1 September 2022 08:31

I use this css for this forum - https://pastebin.com/UpM8vfAt. It’s some discourse dark theme from userstyles.org which I modified to work better with this forum.

filip.k · 1 September 2022 19:46

Thx! In testing. For now it looks good.

thigg · 10 September 2022 06:05

I pulished Flood to Java in openrepos, as jolla store approval is still pending.

thigg · 22 September 2022 09:05

It is now also published in the jolla store

system · 24 September 2022 06:30

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