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Braydon Fuller 2y ago

Wow! Running Gossip on a phone!

It doesn't yet fit the screen. However, performance looks great. It's on the PinePhone with postmarketOS and Phosh. I installed the Rust toolchain and compiled nostr:npub189j8y280mhezlp98ecmdzydn0r8970g4hpqpx3u9tcztynywfczqqr3tg8 from the console on the phone. I needed to add some compile flags as Alpine Linux (postmarketOS) wants to dynamically link to musl.

Adding a responsive layout and handling touch events for pasting and selecting text would be all that would be needed.

#pinephone #nostr #gossip

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

That's awesome!

I'm sorry we designed the UI for a desktop. There was no thought put into supporting small screens or touch devices. Nor did we optimize for low battery usage. But I'm always eager to look at pull requests!

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Braydon Fuller 2y ago

Sounds great, thanks!

I haven't found much documentation on responsive layouts with egui. So I'm unfamiliar with what would be required to support it. Could be a great project.

I've been able to scale the system display from 200% to 100% and it displays much better. I've needed to do this also for a few other applications that are working towards having a responsive layout — progress is being made.

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

I hope you didn't do it the hard way.. there is a setting to override the DPI that uniformly scales everything, fonts included.

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Braydon Fuller 2y ago

I didn't see that setting in User Interface of Gossip – neat. It looks like it'll make things larger but not smaller, unless it could go lower than 72.

I used a system setting from Settings -> Displays -> Scale. There is also another system option Mobile Settings -> Compositor to enable scaling per application. However, it didn't have an effect in this case.

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

egui is immediate, so every frame you can choose what to do. You can say "if width < x do this, else do that".

I think the side menu would have to become a dropdown at certain widths, and some of the pages need to have their content wrap instead of scrolling left-right.

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Braydon Fuller 2y ago

Okay, great!

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ignotus☄️ 2y ago

nice🔥