> How did you perceive the Genode year 2022?
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> What directions are you most excited about?
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> Which topics do you deem as interesting to explore yourself?
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> Do you already happen to have rough plans about 2023?
Santa brought a Pinephone for my S.O. this year, she's happy and looking
forward to use it (and I'm relieved my plot worked and there's no longer talk
of purchasing an Android or iOS device in this home ^^)
We tried to use the OS it ships with (Manjaro/Plasma), but after a few days of
use, it's broken : keeps going back to the PIN-code screen every few seconds,
making it unusable ; discussion forums hint that it means Plasma keeps crashing
and getting auto-restarted.
There's no Genode pre-built image yet, so I took a hint from your Genodians
articles and installed LuneOS. It's been solid so far, and wow, that look and
feel is slick indeed. The camera driver does not seem to handle the cams
though. And their site and forums have been mostly inactive for years. Hence :
I'll keep an eye out for Genode. Those start-up times sound impressive. The
intended use for her will be somewhat limited : sending SMS's, Matrix or
Discord, photo album, maybe a bit of web browsing. VPN features would be quite
intriguing, in this day and age.
**
Re. my ongoing project of "marrying" Genode and that other system (let's call
it "upstream-Hai") : the latest build is now playing music from an indexed,
attributed, file system. Finally. So my years of (slow-as-molasses) work
weren't for naught :-)
(@Norman: will email you my cliff-notes later on, not exactly "light" reading
*g* but it seems you agree to read them anyway!)
In the spirit of good Q.A., I started running that "distro" on metal for
several hours every day, to accumulate mileage, before I hopefully ship to an
unsuspecting public in 2023.
Also, now that the main part of the system works, that opens the door to
"secondary features", to wit:
* HDA driver:
During 2H 2022, I should look into multi-output audio, e.g. making the
"line-out" jack output a different audio stream from the "headphones" jack. The
BSD driver relies on a command called "mixerctl" if memory serves, will see how
that translates into code-and-configuration in Genode's port of that driver. If
it's incomplete I'll try to contribute the missing stuff.
* Dynamic vfs mounting:
Will soon-ish look into USB mass storage ; I presume it spawns a new component
(or re-spawns an existing one) with appropriate <config>... <vfs>... nodes for
reading the newly mounted USB stick/hard-drive.
Maybe re-spawning will be sufficient for my needs ; however in case it has
shortcomings, I might have to look into patching Genode to make vfs config
"dynamic" (that is, apply vfs plug-in mounting/unmounting without killing the
host component), though that's always a difficult subject on any OS, so I'll
try hard to steer clear of that if I can.
* Drag'n'drop ("cooperative"):
A much more distant prospect : it would be nice for my apps to re-enable DnD as
in upstream, in addition to using file panels. It's just a vague idea at this
point, not even on the 2023 drawing board yet, just a vague concept whereby
each upstream-Hai app monitors mouse pointer movements and
contributes/cooperates on visual feedback and internal IPC of the dragged
BMessage... You could call it "make believe DnD", since it won't involve
NitPicker much, it will be the apps themselves faking it. Anyway not sure
whether it'll make the cut to year 2023, maybe the year after that (if the
lights are still on in this part of the natostan Empire by then).
As always, thanks for giving Genode to the world, I try to pay you guys back by
filing detailed and helpful tickets and such.
Cedric
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