Okay, I think it is time to contact Purism support then.
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Will it hurt anything if i remove librem5-gnome?
Wait, let me test me first.
EDIT: i still testing âŚi found one error.
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The buttons work, they just donât show the right icons. This is true for me in several other apps, as well â both GTK and KDE.
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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
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ii librem5-gnome 65pureos1~byz1 all GNOME metapackage for the Librem5
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Ok you are Good to go:
sudo apt update -y; sudo apt purge gnome-contacts -y; sudo apt install gnome-contacts librem5-gnome -y; sudo reboot
This wonât remove Contacts
sudo apt update -y; sudo apt purge gnome-contacts -y; sudo apt install gnome-contacts librem5-gnome -y;
[sudo] password for purism:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for purism:
Get:1 https://repo.pureos.net/pureos byzantium InRelease [9,641 B]
Get:2 https://repo.pureos.net/pureos byzantium-updates InRelease [9,649 B]
Get:3 https://repo.pureos.net/pureos byzantium-security InRelease [9,650 B]
Fetched 28.9 kB in 3s (10.4 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-contacts* librem5-gnome*
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
librem5-gnome
gnome-contacts (due to librem5-gnome)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
E: Essential packages were removed and -y was used without --allow-remove-essential.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
gnome-contacts is already the newest version (43~beta-1pureos2).
librem5-gnome is already the newest version (65pureos1~byz1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
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That wonât work as the flatpak version lack support for that. Iâd recommend to not use flatpak versions of system components as those often need minor patches that are needed on mobile.
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Yeah I was just seeing what it was like.
Do you have any ideas on why my default app does not have this functionality anymore?
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If by âdefault appâ you mean the one shipped in PureOS? Are you certain youâre not (by accident) still running the one from the flatpak? (You can check with ps)
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purism 32763 731 9 13:34 ? 00:00:08 /usr/bin/gnome-contacts --gapplication-service
That is what this: purism@pureos:~$ ps -ef | grep gnome-contacts returns
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Does anyone else have my issue?
- Yes
- No
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So just to confirm: you can actually make calls? You just canât do it from Contacts. But it might be OK from Calls?
And for those numbers where it makes sense to send a text: you can initiate the sending of a text from Contacts?
My only gripe is that Contacts fails to recognise which numbers are able to receive texts (mobile numbers) and which numbers are not (fixed lines and special purpose numbers). In other words, some numbers in a contact would have both the âcallâ and the âtextâ icon next to the number while other numbers would have only the âcallâ icon. I realise that that would either be hard-coding or would require country-specific configuration.
I donât suppose Contacts already has that functionality and for me itâs not working (fail safe) but for you itâs not working (fail unsafe)??
Another wild speculation: You appear to have your camera/mic killed. Would it make sense to disable calling in that scenario?
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Every single one of my contacts has the phone and text icon. Hardware kill switches being active or not has no effect towards it.
That being said, all of my contacts, except for Voicemail, are mobile phone numbers.
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(without checking hundreds of contacts rigorously) yes, for me too.
Both of which look like opportunities for future functional polishing.
(I have definitely been known to text in a hurry and send the text to the contact on their fixed line number rather than their mobile number - many of my contacts have both - and then the text will maybe eventually fail. At one time one of our MNOs offered a service where you could send a text to a fixed line number and they would handle that in some way - but I wouldnât want to rely on that.)
So I would rather have the text icon missing if the number is not text-capable and I would rather have the phone icon greyed out if the mic is killed (and yeah I understand that in the future you can have a Bluetooth headset paired - including a car - and that might not be killed by the mic kill switch and it might be valid therefore still to make a call - so there is more complexity to this).
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It would make sense, but unfortunately itâs not the case.
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I did remove the flatpak version after testing it, but would the config files from it change how the PureOS version worked?
(I may have installed it a couple of months ago just to see what it was like, but I removed it then as well.)
So I did run this and nothing changed when it rebooted.
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