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2026-07-24 00:36 UTC

Thanks for your perspectives. @abranson@mastodon.social What reason would Jolla have for keeping the UI QML files closed source after all these years? I've tried patchmanager in the past on my OP6 and it worked fine. I agree on your point that Sailfish would not be as polished as it is without productization. As much as many don't like this fact, it is true. I would consider Ubuntu Touch the fully open source vision. It too has a large community and a larger amount of community ports. I do not consider it more polished however. @piggz@fosstodon.org I think that Sailfish's documentation is good. I have used it for years and it usually has what I need, otherwise I go to the forum or chatrooms. Resources for building your own community ports feel very "if you know you know" kind of basis. You've got the HADK which is official but most of the useful information like incompatibilities with Android base versions and libhybris is found either in the unofficial HADK HOT or HADK FAQ. If none of that works I just ping mal (we love mal). I did see a bunch of Plasma apps on Chum or something a few years ago like Angelfish and Elisa. Though they're not updated and still on 2023 versions. Hope to see you again at FOSDEM Adam :)

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  • @piggz@fosstodon.org 2026-07-24 07:42

    @carbonatedcaffeine@social.treehouse.systems @abranson@mastodon.social Ah, you need to be more up to date ... just the last 2 weeks or so, a bunch of us have put time into properly getting qt 6.8.4 and kf6 into chum repo (currently :testing), you can see the activity here https://github.com/orgs/sailfishos-chum/repositories 😀 . PS, was good to pump into you at fosdem, and yes, hopefully again!

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  • @abranson@mastodon.social 2026-07-24 07:49

    @carbonatedcaffeine@social.treehouse.systems @piggz@fosstodon.org I don't know for sure, but I imagine the idea was to prevent an AOSP style forking situation, which required compatibility suites and strongarming OEMs with Play Services to solve the fragmentation. The amount of closed code has been shrinking lately though. Several of the core apps that have been closed since Sailfish OS launched in 2013 were opened last year, like the Weather, Camera and Gallery apps.

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