Dear PinePhone users,
I have just published a new Sculpt image for the PinePhone today:
https://depot.genode.org/nfeske/image/
The new version 2023-04-06 introduces three new features:
1. Wifi! For those of you without mobile data connectivity, you can now select "Wifi" in the network part of the GUI, select an access point and enter your passphrase, just like on the PC version of Sculpt. Since the passphrase is not saved, you have to enter it each time when connecting. Not a bug. It's for training your blind typing skills. ;-) ...don't worry, those usability topics are on our list.
2. There is a new preset that starts a pre-configured Morph browser right into Jitsi alongside the camera driver. Speaking of the camera, it is now operated in gray scale because we found the colors provided by the sensor not really presentable. Later, we may come back to work on the colors but until then, gray-scale looks nice enough. When asked, select "Use Jitsi on the Website". As of now, the preset is mainly intended to ease the testing of further performance optimizations. It may not by suited for practical use yet, but I think its a good time to show how far we have come already.
3. The new "Add" tab in the Software section provides the functionality of Sculpt's '+' menu, which is the browsing of depot menus, the installation of packages, and the manual deployment of new components. In addition to regular Sculpt, it offers a way to directly add URLs of new software providers. Since Sculpt does not know any public keys of such providers, downloads can of course not be verified. But the system still offers you the option to download packages without verification. The assessment of trust in such components is of course entirely up to you.
Installation
- If you have an earlier version of Sculpt installed and a mobile data connection, you can use the "Update" tab in the software section of the GUI to check for updates from 'nfeske', download the '2023-04-06' image, press the install button, and reboot.
You may chose to also download an older image (without install). So you can always switch back to the old version should the new image not be to your liking.
- For preparing a fresh SD-card, please follow the instructions as given in the first announcement:
https://genodians.org/nfeske/2023-02-01-mobile-sculpt
Have fun with trying out the new image!
Cheers Norman