postmarketos-ui-gnome

I guess getting gnome-shell on armhf will be quite difficult since their javascript engine doesn't compile on non-x86 platforms (which I found about why its not in alpine)

By Martijn Braam on 2017-10-01T11:56:39

Created by: ollieparanoid

From reading the backlog, it looks like @opendata26 got it working somehow \o/ https://github.com/opendata26/pmbootstrap/tree/gnome

By * postmarketOS Bot on 2017-10-02T22:13:53

but does it actually run on real hardware ?

By Ariadne Conill on 2017-10-04T00:33:23

It does, here's a photo of it running on the sony castor, made by @opendata26:

By Martijn Braam on 2017-10-04T08:25:41

Created by: opendata26

To get it to compile I patched a random 6 that appears after running configure in mozjs there is definetly a better solution to this so I'm not making a PR yet it is also fully useable

By * postmarketOS Bot on 2017-10-04T18:47:57

Created by: opendata26

Tree is on my GH gnome branch

By * postmarketOS Bot on 2017-10-05T00:42:26

@opendata26 are you still working on it? I'm also curious to run it on my devices to see how it works

By Daniele Debernardi on 2017-11-20T19:20:11

Created by: opendata26

Not currently

By * postmarketOS Bot on 2017-11-22T17:09:58

Created by: ollieparanoid

@drebrez: sounds like you'd only need to rebase @opendata26's gnome branch and then it should work. Bonus points for removing the hack he mentioned and then making it available upstream

By * postmarketOS Bot on 2017-11-22T21:12:05

Created by: ollieparanoid

@NotKit asked in the chat:

what was the problem with GNOME 3 on aarch64?

Here's @opendata26's branch
relevant commit

I think the problem was related to the JavaScript engine - you could diff his APKBUILDs against the official ones in Alpine to see what he has changed.

By * postmarketOS Bot on 2018-01-13T08:49:01

Created by: Nine-H

is mutter/libmutter working/packaged?

By * postmarketOS Bot on 2018-06-17T04:52:35

Created by: ollieparanoid

@Nine-H: Yes: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=mutter&branch=edge

By * postmarketOS Bot on 2018-06-17T21:44:45

Note, GNOME is a bit of a problem upstream. Besides the before mentioned architecture issue, GNOME updates seem to be done partially in edge. This caused problems for Phosh as well.

Basically the previously packaged GNOME for Alpine was 3.26. However, someone updated Mutter (the window manager used by GNOME) to 3.28, without updating most of the other GNOME packages. This caused all of the packages left behind to be unable to be installed. We should see if we can make upstream aware not to update GNOME partially. Also, eventually moving to stable releases of Alpine should fix this at least for the releases where all GNOME packages have the same versions.

By Bart Ribbers on 2018-09-18T17:09:29

Well, nowadays GNOME is properly maintained again in Alpine, so someone can make a UI package for it

@MartijnBraam you use GNOME daily, would you like to make a UI package for it and set yourself as maintainer? For any issues with GNOME you'll have to coordinate with @Cogitri

By Bart Ribbers on 2019-10-14T20:58:56

Sure, if you have problems do feel free to reach me here, or preferably on Matrix/IRC :)

By Rasmus Thomsen on 2019-10-14T21:57:10

marked the checklist item Submit PRs upstream to get all Gnome-related packages for aarch64/armhf (they are missing currently!), talk to @kaniini for that. as completed

By Bart Ribbers on 2019-12-19T13:05:29

@Cogitri A meta UI package is easy enough to make, is it alright with you if I make the package and set you as the maintainer for it?

By Bart Ribbers on 2019-12-19T13:06:26

Sure, that'd work for me. I'll get to actually using/testing it once my Pinephone has shipped and arrived :)

By Rasmus Thomsen on 2019-12-19T16:00:04

!990 (closed)

By Minecrell on 2020-03-07T19:32:50

closed

By Minecrell on 2020-03-07T19:32:51

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