Thanks for sharing! In addition to the UX improvements, I am looking forward to being able to use debian 11 base. There are a fair number of apps I cant use because they arent supported on deb 10.
Any improvements in squeekboard? like autocorrect?
No, not as far as I know, and I do not use autocorrect. Currently, there is a bug with Squeekboard when attempting to access “Keyboard Settings”: nothing happens. Normally it links to the Settings app → Keyboard.
I noticed a significant issue: the modem is unreliable and may not power on even after disabling the cellular hardware kill switch. In comparison, my Byzantium experience is always reliable within 10 seconds.
Even though Firefox ESR’s various flickering issues are gone, attempting to sign in to Royal Bank of Canada remains completely unusable, with the credential input text boxes and Squeekboard constantly flickering in and out.
There is a visual stuttering issue that still occurs when highlighting a hyperlink with a truncated context menu. This issue does not apply if the context menu is not truncated.
Crimson for the L5 is indevelopment. You can’t expect these things to work at this point in time. The phone related bits haven’t been forward ported yet. Devices like the L11 that use Crimson don’t have a modem or voice apabilities.
Lots of things in development track what works and what doesn’t as a means of being able to tell how far along in development they are. Whether or not they’re meeing their objectives and how far along that development process they are.
There’s a difference between asking if something is being tracked and expecting it to work. I hope things like this are being tracked and that someone has some idea on the development progress beyone “it’s in development”.
It is my understanding that crimson is allabout details at this point (Road to crimson (#346) · Issues · Librem5 / OS-issues · GitLab). If you don’t bother about details the best thing is to wait for the official announcement which i’m sure will also happen in the forums.
Crimson will bring at least “fresher” user space software.
that’s already a big gain! in my opinion Crimson is still not recent enough from a user GUI perspective!
then we have user space “driver” and hardware driver!
no concerns about kernel drivers.
what about vulkan, openGL, ffmpeg, pipewire software “driver”?
i would like to keep track of all in above!
again, how?
your advice is to patience wait for some pusim announcement!
Cool!
If you ask nicely, and mentioning specific, exact package names, someone who is already running Crimson (@FranklyFlawless) might tell you what version of the package(s) is currently included.
Edit: Or you could install Crimson on a spare x86 device yourself.
GNOME Files/Nautilus has an updated context menu with a scroll bar. You can drag anywhere up or down within the context window to display other options without selecting one, then you can tap on the option you want to execute. If you accidentally drag past the context menu, it resets to the displayed options before interaction.
GNOME Web/Epiphany launches, but immediately crashes after, so it is unusable. Setting it as the default browser does nothing to improve its stability.
