Enable TTYescape for Sxmo, Phosh, Plasma Mobile by default

TTYescape can currently be installed manually. It depends on triggerhappy currently, however the code base was unmaintained and @calebccff just wrote hkdm to replace it.

To get it into v21.12:

• aports MR: testing/hkdm: new aport
• pmaports MR (each line one commit)
  • main/ttyescape: use hkdm
  • main/triggerhappy: drop
  • phosh,sxmo,plamo: add ttyescape to _pmb_recommends
    • verify that it works :D IIRC that's all that was needed?
• update wiki page
  • mention that it's now installed by default
  • remove triggerhappy references
  • key combinations are the most important thing, make sure they are easy to find directly
  • screenshot would be nice
• aports MR: community/hkdm: move from testing
  • create after it was in testing briefly (a day or two?), and we verified that the binary package works, that's how it works in alpine
• pmaports MR to v21.12:
  • temp/hkdm: fork from alpine
    • (pmbootstrap+rust doesn't work great, but it should build with options="!pmb:crossdirect")
  • main/ttyescape: use hkdm
    • (this is a backport from the edge MR)

@calebccff: as discussed, it would be awesome to ship this in v21.12. Can you take care of it?

CC: @PureTryOut to potentially help out with packaging if needed.

changed milestone to %v21.12 Release

added type::feature ui-phosh ui-plasma-mobile ui-sxmo labels

assigned to @calebccff

By Oliver Smith on 2021-11-25T23:15:05

mentioned in issue #1295 (closed)

By Oliver Smith on 2021-11-25T23:17:35

Hi Ollie, yeah this sounds good to me! There is one more exciting upgrade for TTYEscape, I just got buffyboard merged in aports, this replaces fbkeyboard, is MUCH nicer to use and derives it's layout from squeekboard, so we will have a consistent keyboard layour from Phosh to a VT. I'll open an MR to upgrade TTYEscape to use it as well as ship the new HKDM config and try and finish packaging HKDM this week.

Picture of buffyboard for reference:

By Caleb Connolly on 2021-11-27T10:39:25

very awesome! :D

CC: @cherrypicker

By Oliver Smith on 2021-11-25T23:28:03

Exciting to see this hit the wild!

By Johannes Marbach on 2021-11-26T18:46:40

Feel free to ping me when you guys have the branch setup and before you release v21.12. I will provide feedback for sxmo with this enabled.

cc: @stacyharper

By Anjandev Momi on 2021-11-25T23:34:05

Please checkout and test !2713 (merged)

By Caleb Connolly on 2021-11-29T15:23:35

i tried to get it working for hours without any luck using the ttyescape apk from that mr and hkdm from the alpine mr. hkdm just didnt seem to be reacting at all. finally figured out that the config was being installed as ttyescape.conf instead of .toml and hkdm was (properly) ignoring it and doing nothing. after rename, it works great!

By tvall on 2021-11-29T15:23:35

HKDM MR here https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/27856

By Caleb Connolly on 2021-12-10T18:38:37

@calebccff do you think you'll have time to finish this up within the next week or so for the v21.12 release? if you need more time, that's fine, we can target a "service pack" for this instead.

By clayton craft on 2021-12-10T18:38:37

marked the checklist item aports MR: testing/hkdm: new aport as completed

By Oliver Smith on 2021-12-12T20:49:45

mentioned in merge request !2753 (closed)

By Caleb Connolly on 2021-12-16T03:28:35

marked the checklist item pmaports MR (each line one commit) as completed

By clayton craft on 2021-12-20T03:40:40

marked the checklist item pmaports MR to v21.12: as completed

By clayton craft on 2021-12-20T03:40:44

marked the checklist item aports MR: community/hkdm: move from testing as completed

By clayton craft on 2021-12-20T03:40:46

closed

Buffyboard and hkdm are still in testing in aports, making this package unupgradable for edge/master users who don't use alpine testing.

By Zach DeCook on 2021-12-20T04:16:45

pmOS edge has the alpine aports testing enabled by default.

By clayton craft on 2021-12-20T04:16:45

MR to move both to community in alpine edge: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/28668

By clayton craft on 2021-12-20T04:22:11

marked the checklist item aports MR: community/hkdm: move from testing as incomplete

By clayton craft on 2021-12-20T04:17:53

reopened

closed prematurely... sorry

There are still a couple tasks that need to be finished up (see issue description)

By clayton craft on 2021-12-20T04:18:51

ok, looks like the wiki was updated, and everything is in aports community now, so closing this issue...

By clayton craft on 2021-12-28T04:21:45

closed