- battery life / suspend implementation
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Improved photo and barcode scan functionality
(P.S. Some of the things in this list may already be working better in Byzantium.)
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- Map/GPS combo capable of being used for navigation (car/public transport/walking)
- Signal messenger client (with push notifications)
- Adaptive Gnome calendar
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Is it okay to post what I miss on Mobian@PinePhone assuming that it’s the same on the L5? Of course I can’t be sure, until I get my L5.
In convergence mode the app switcher is only on the phone’s screen and not on the external screen. I think it should be on the external screen, maybe on both. For productive use a classical task bar would be a good alternative. Or how do you people use convergence? Do you install another desktop environment and switch at login?
Also some windows do not have a title bar. I guess these are non GTK programs. Also I would like to see the classical minimize, maximize etc. buttons.
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You can switch the main output in settings.
If those are Qt applications, then this is a matter of distro configuration and doesn’t happen on PureOS.
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After (re)starting the Librem 5, after unlocking with the pass code, I get this pop up window:
Authentication required
The login keyring did not get unlocked when you logged into your computer.
Password:
The password for me is the same as the pass code to unlock the screen. I think this “Authentication required” window is a small annoyance that reduces the smoothness of the initial login process. Not really a pain point, but more a paper cut.
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I believe the conclusion of that topic was “3G audio doesn’t sound as nice as VoLTE” 
From what I heard, making GNOME Calendar adaptive will be the focus of this release cycle.
What’s missing there? Megapixels seems to work fine for me.
As said above, that can be already configured via GUI, phosh chrome follows the primary screen.
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Currently with the latest version of megapixels on byzantium. You can detect but not copy or launch the code. Even though there is a copy button, it doesn’t seem to copy anything.
This works a lot better on mobian with a newer version of megapixels.
edit: I’d be thrilled if the L5 got the updated qr settings for megapixels. I’ve been working on expanding what codes can be used and should have a release available in the next few weeks.
Ah, indeed - I only tried with an URL and launching it in a browser works, but copying does not. I’ll take a look at it.
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For me, the most important piece still missing is a calendar app.
Ahh, I see it only offers to qr codes that a browser would take.
Would you be able to expand that to allow the opening of any of them with xdg-open like it is on mobian? This allows for the system to figure out what to do with it. This opens it up to allowing more codes the system can already handle such as:
mailto:
geo:
This also opens people (such as myself) to add more codes that the system can handle. Just yesterday I got wifi codes working on mobian.
edit: We really appreciate the work you do dos!
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@amarok Big camera should work fine in amber-phone for a while now (since kernel 5.13.12pureos1~amber1). There also were some more improvements since and a new kernel with all of them will migrate into amber-phone in a few days: https://master.pureos.net/migrations/excuse/3d7229fc-a6a4-45d6-a1bb-40c4c30666bb - please test whether it works for you; if it does not, this could mean a hardware issue (or some completely different software bug that we haven’t seen yet).
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OK, right…I just checked and it does work; those old issues seem to be corrected. I hadn’t tested in a while, because I hadn’t seen any updates specific to Megapixels arrive.
Looking forward to the coming improvements… Thanks!
Yeah, it was the kernel that needed fixing 
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@dcz Sorry for my misleading statement.
At first I was able to connect the L5 to my monitors, cars and televisions with the usual USB-C docks (HDMI alt-mode) and operate it with a portable keyboard / mouse. That was a really good feeling and made me very happy personally
After an update (I don’t know which one anymore) the support for the HDMI / DP alt-mode was lost and I can use these docks (I have 7 different of them) for everything else but not to connect a display.
Now the L5 is just lying around at my house because it doesn’t do what it used to be.
I hope the functionality will be restored. 
@execrable FYI, connecting external displays should still work fine (and it does for me), especially with adapters that have worked before. Seems like your device needs some troubleshooting; it may be a good idea to contact support.
@dos It is quite possible. I try to reset the L5 again and then test it. I’m glad to hear that it should still work
As has been mentioned before, VoLTE may or may not be one of the biggest issues. Given that one can use SIP or XMPP with a data SIM (or Wifi when available), this is a possible solution (or workaround) for not being able to call with VoLTE. If you want to stick with your current voice/text or voice/text/data plan then I guess not. There are pretty reasonable (IMHO) data-only international offerings like Surfroam and Keepgo. On the SIP/XMPP side, there are offerings like jmp.chat (US and Canada only currently), Zadarma (international) and many, many more.
Although I have experience with (and even done development on) SIP-based systems in the past, I have not tried any of these XMPP/SIP offerings associated with real PSTN phone numbers. I also don’t know how seamless this would be, especially with respect to SMS/MMS. It would be nice if Purism would at some point tell us:
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Some kind of progress report on discussions with the main US carriers wrt to VoLTE whitelisting for the Librem 5, and/or
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Discussion of how feasible the XMPP/SIP solution is for Voice/SMS/MMS as a substitution for VoLTE.