User:David Hedlund/Backlog

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RetroArch

Closed issues that are still active:

retroarch-joypad-autoconfig

Top priority for evaluation

Video game emulators

See also: Collection:Game ROM images

Free software evaluation High Priority Projects category, Collection/Project Team Type Runs in free distros Development stage Packaged for free distros Review link Review outcome Notes
Cemu Collection:Computer and video game console emulators 8th generation: Nintendo Wii U emulator cemu-2.0-ubuntu-20.04-x64.zip, and Appimage tested with OpenGL settings in Trisquel 11 Stable No Requested Craig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemu
Ryujinx Collection:Computer and video game console emulators 8th generation: Nintendo Switch emulator Flatpak tested in Trisquel 11 No Discontinued. Hard fork repo: https://github.com/ryujinx-mirror/ryujinx
ShadPS4 Collection:Computer and video game console emulators 8th generation: PlayStation 4 emulator Appimage requires GLIBC 2.38 No https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzu_(emulator)#Forks
Suyu Collection:Computer and video game console emulators 8th generation: Nintendo Switch emulator Appimage tested in Trisquel 11.01 Non-free issue: https://git.suyu.dev/suyu/suyu/issues/206 No https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzu_(emulator)#Forks
Citra 8th generation: Nintendo 3DS Discontinued (Nintendo of America filed a lawsuit against Tropic Haze LLC) No "Lime3DS is a project which aims to revive and continue work on Citra
Vita3K 8th generation: PlayStation Vita No
Dolphin 7th generation, and 6th: Wii, and GameCube No
RPCS3 Collection:Computer and video game console emulators 7th generation: PlayStation 3 emulator Appimage tested in Trisquel 11 Alpha No https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPCS3
PPSSPP 7th generation: PlayStation Portable No
AetherSX2 Collection:Computer and video game console emulators 6th generation: PlayStation 2 emulator
PCSX2 Collection:Computer and video game console emulators 6th generation: PlayStation 2 emulator Yes
Xemu Collection:Computer and video game console emulators 6th generation: Microsoft Xbox emulator Appimage tested in Trisquel 11 ? No
libretro-beetle-psx-hw Collection:Computer and video game console emulators 5th generation: Sony PlayStation No Increase the resolution up to 12x! libretro-beetle-psx cannot increase the resolution at all.
libretro-bsnes-hd Collection:Computer and video game console emulators 4th generation: Sony PlayStation No 1280x1080 resolution without wide streching the screen! bsnes cannot do that.

Extended table

Emulator Android: F-Droid Google Play (F-Droid comparison) Libretro core (RetroArch Flatpak) Libretro core (RetroArch Ubuntu package) Libretro core (RetroArch Android) GNU/Linux: Appimage Appimage: Automatic update Flatpak Binary Binary: Automatic update
RetroArch Synced with the latest release on retroarch.com (Missing data) 1.9.12 (2021-11-03) -
Cemu Alpha (Android 12 or later)[2][3] - - Request -II- -II- Yes Request Yes
Ryujinx No - - Request -II- -II- Yes No - Yes Yes ?
ShadPS4 Yes ? Feature request
Suyu Yes No No Still too young -II- -II- Yes Yes
Citra No Link Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Vita3K Yes No Link Request -II- -II- Yes Yes
Dolphin 5.0-20347 5.0-20347 Yes No Yes No -
RPCS3 To early[1] No Request -II- -II- Yes
PPSSPP Yes 1.1.1.0 (2015-11-15) 1.16.6 (2023-10-12) Yes No Yes Yes
AetherSX2 Yes No Link No No No
PCSX2 No - - Known as "LRPS2 (alpha)" No No Yes Yes
Xemu No - - Request -II- -II- Yes No Yes
libretro-beetle-psx-hw Yes No Yes
libretro-bsnes-hd Yes No Yes

1: 

## Use case
Games released for handheld game consoles don't have non-network multiplayer mode. So handheld game console emulators installed on mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, etc) cannot be used for this purpose. Instead, you have to install home video game console emulators on the mobile device.

For example:
* ''Tekken 6'', distributed for PlayStation Portable (handheld game console), does not have a two player mode.
* ''Tekken 6'', distributed for PS3 (home video game console), has two player mode (called "VS Battle"). It would be possible to play it on a smartphone if a RPCS3 for Android version was released, by connecting two or game pads to the Bluetooth on the phone.

2: "There is currently an effort underway to port Cemu to Android over at https://github.com/SSimco/Cemu" - https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu/issues/1351 3: Games released for handheld game consoles don't have non-network multiplayer mode. So handheld game console emulators installed on mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, etc) cannot be used for this purpose. Instead, you have to install home video game console emulators on the mobile device.

Releases

Automatic updates for GNU/Linux for downloads not managed by package managers

  • Citra installer
    • Already added: "Check for updates on start"
  • Dolpin appimage
  • PCSX2 Appimage
    • "Enable Automatic Update Check" enabled by default

Game compatibility column

Wii U

Nintendo 3DS:

PS2:

PSP

PS3

  • GNU/Linux: RPCS3
    • Game compatibility column already exists
    • Android: No RPCS3 Android build exists, and no well-known PS3 emulator for Android exists

PS Vita

  • GNU/Linux: Vita3K
    • Game compatibility column already exists
  • Android: Vita3K
    • Game compatibility column already exists
Not needed any more (very stable emulators)

Wii/GameCube

Multiboot disk image tools

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Multiboot_live_USB

Importance: USB drives like Kingston DataTraveler Max, allows really quick system installations from GNU/Linux distribution ISO files. I assume that the FSF office has downloaded copies of https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html, a collection of these GNU/Linux ISO installation files can be copied to a Kingston DataTraveler Max USB drive with ventoy installed.

balenaEtcher

balenaEtcher issue: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Free_software_evaluation#Chromium-based_browsers_and_software

Ventoy

MultiBoot is not as simple as Ventoy, but it works for legacy systems.

Sofware with issues

Free software evaluation Issue High Priority Projects category, Collection/Project Team Type Review link Evaluation status Notable
Etcher wish: support creating a multi-boot USB drive #414 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etcher_(software)

Secondary issues

Blocked by Antifeatures (for example VPN software that depends on nonfree service). So the issues listed here will not help anyways.

Mozilla VPN

Issues:

Future Trisquel issues

File issues to https://gitlab.trisquel.org/trisquel/package-helpers/ when these issues have been fixed:

UI

GUI issues

MATE

Release notes

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/111.0/releasenotes/ : Please mention that the window border is hidden by default - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1855203

Maximize windows

You can also use and add comments ~/.config/devilspie2/maximize.lua

virt-manager

Fitts's law

MATE is based on GNOME, and uses GTK.

Themes (from the mate-themes package) that are affected in Trisquel 11:

  • BlackMATE
  • Blue-Submarine
  • GreenLaguna
  • Green-Submarine
  • Greybird
  • Greybird-dark
  • High Contrast
  • High Contrast Inverse
  • TraditionalGreen
  • TraditionalOk
  • YaruGreen
  • YaruOk

gnome-disk-image

Release notes

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0/releasenotes/ : Please mention that sideloading is discontinued - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1855207

GUI-blocking issues

Issues that force you to run commands that might damage your system.

  • usb-creator-gtk cause a problem with windows images - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/2038684
    • It's useful to evaluate free software on Windows sometimes.
    • usb-creator-gtk only lists USB devices for security reasons. Using dd to write ISOs require you to select a /dev/[device], so you have to back up your disk drives first since it's easy to add the wrong device by mistake.

Script-blocking issues

This section is also AI related, since GUIs makes it significantly harder for AI to interact.

The issues here are blocking bash scripts to configure the programs.

Documentation

Screen resolution

AI-related

See also: #Script-blocking_issues

Macros

Display templates

Ask Adonay for help.

If we get the code working, I'll also add it to https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/UserWiki:David_Hedlund/List_panels

Todo

Directory Friday IRC Meeting

Licensing consultation

Consult Donald on these issues:

Collections to start

Verify

These entries carry extra high importance.

Entries that need more info

IceCatMobile F-Droid package maintainer - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.gnu.icecat/

Issues that needs your vote

Software Popular long-term issue Vote Type Submitted

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36956498

Etar Vote Crash when app is backgrounded
Android Vote Android MTP support does not show recent files until the device is rebooted Google refused to fix the bug! 2012
Etar Vote Calendar app does not allow "Change only this event" for events from calendars with CalendarContract.ACCOUNT_TYPE_LOCAL #15
Firefox Vote Implement the Firefox for Android progress bar
Firefox Vote Offer Private Browsing for the search engines
Firefox add-on: Nano Defender Vote Adblocker / Defender for Firefox issues mega thread Unapproved: https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoDefender describes that https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/real-nano-defender/ is not working for the moment.
LMMS LinuxVST support Feature 2004
Important Firefox add-ons Vote on APIs needed by Session Manager, Tab Session Manager, MySessions, Tab Mix Plus and other session managers, so they can be better Vote Feature 2005
Firefox Set a Default Text Size (or Page Zoom Level) in Tools > Options > Content > Default Page Size Vote Feature 2005
Thunderbird Opening or adding .ics files to calendar by double click Vote Bug 2006
Thunderbird global indexing should include Trash folders by default but global search results should not show Trash folder hits by default - 'Include messages in global search' for the Trash folder should be enabled by default. Vote Bug 2010
Thunderbird Allow body search in encrypted messages ("regular search", QFB, filters) Vote Bug 2018
Thunderbird Search Messages: Encryption Status missing Vote Enhancement 2022
Texinfo MediaWiki to Texinfo conversion for texinfo Vote at the bottom of the page Feature request 2011
GitHub View list of issues I'm subscribed to, on the website Add a positive emoji Feature request 2014
Libreoffice no keyboard input after opening password protected .ods Bug 2012
Phabricator Phabricator should suggest possible duplicates when creating a new task Add thumbs up Feature request 2014
MediaWiki Allow users to be blocked from editing a specific article Vote Feature request 2004
MediaWiki Allow users to restrict who can send them notifications Vote Feature request 2017
Tor Browser Add DuckDuckGo hidden service search engine to Tor Browser (and set it as default search engine) Feature request 2020
RadioDroid Suggestion: Make Favorite list exportable/importable Feature request 2016

Self-submitted

Nonfree software

Political issues

Page content

Nonfree issues

Android

Bugs

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-restore-my-tabs-last-time#w_restore-the-previous-session-from-the-firefox-menu

Feature requests

Need more volunteers

Community

  • Savannah - I've been waiting for many months since I submitted a new project but it's still not approved. Nobody care to respond when I ask what's going on. This is obviously frustrating.

F-Droid apps

Proposed projects

Planned software and releases

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)

January 27 2021: Central bank digital cash could come to 20% of the world in three years - BIS

"The history of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is a short, recent history. CBDCs are still in a conceptual stage, with many countries exploring their possible implementation." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CBDCs_by_country.

List CBDCs on directory.fsf.org when these articles have been created and listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Central_bank_digital_currencies:

See research at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CBDCs_by_country for current status.

Virtual assistant

FSF Forge

FreeAMO

I think it's a good idea to rewamp https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/directory.git/tree/subprojects/freeamo when the thunderbird 78.0-based software (icedove) has landed in Guix (done), Evaluated 2024: Hyperbola (WAITING), Parabola (WAITING), Trisquel (done).

Firefox

Comming up:

Firefox-based browser releases

Thunderbird

Status from https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/about-add-ons#extensions

  • Legacy WebExtensions: Deprecated in Thunderbird 78.
  • Legacy Bootstrap Extension: Deprecated in Thunderbird 68.
  • Legacy Overlay Extension: Deprecated in Thunderbird 68.

"Support for legacy extensions was removed from Thunderbird Beta version 74, released in February 2020. Only modern are now compatible with Thunderbird 78. This guide is intended to help developers to port their Legacy WebExtensions to MailExtensions." - https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/updating/tb78

Important milestone release notes:

Release schedule:

icedove packages

Guix, https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/icedove-91.5/ 

icedove 91.5 Rebranded Mozilla Thunderbird email client

This package provides an email client built based on Mozilla Thunderbird. It supports email, news feeds, chat, calendar and contacts.

    Website: https://www.thunderbird.net
    License: MPL 2.0
    Package source: gnuzilla.scm
    Patches: None
    Builds: x86_64-linux

Hyperbola will be discontinued 2022 (check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbola_GNU/Linux-libre#History 2027 or something because that has not happened yet) so it doesn't really make any sense to track it

https://www.hyperbola.info/packages/ 

Arch 	Repo 	Name 		Version 		Description 	Last Updated
x86_64 	Extra 	icedove-uxp 	52.9.20210602-3 	A new generation of Icedove, an XUL-based standalone mail and news reader on the Unified XUL Platform (UXP). 	2021-08-11
i686 	Extra 	icedove-uxp 	52.9.20210602-3 	A new generation of Icedove, an XUL-based standalone mail and news reader on the Unified XUL Platform (UXP). 	2021-08-11

Parabola, https://www.parabola.nu/packages/?sort=&q=icedove&maintainer=&flagged= 

Arch 	Repo 	Name 	Version 		Description
x86_64 	Libre 	icedove 1:68.9.0-1.parabola1 	Standalone mail and news reader based on Mozilla Thunderbird

Trisquel 10, sudo apt-cache show icedove 

Package: icedove
Source: thunderbird
Version: 1:78.14.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.2+10.0trisquel10
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Ubuntu Trisquel Team <ubuntu-mozillateam@lists.ubuntu.com>
thunderbird packages
bullseye (stable) (mail): mail/news client with RSS, chat and integrated spam filter support
1:78.14.0-1~deb11u1: amd64 arm64 i386 mips64el ppc64el s390x

jammy (22.04LTS) (mail): Email, RSS and newsgroup client with integrated spam filter
1:91.9.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 [security]: amd64
1:91.8.0+build2-0ubuntu1 [ports]: arm64 armhf ppc64el s390x

Website issues

Multiboot ISO on internal hard disk drives

Protect internal hard disk drive devices with ISO sources:

Misc:

Privacy

LVM2 PV

LVM-on-LUKS (LVM2 PV in a LUKS container) is used in Trisquel 11 by default.

RAR

Add supported RAR versions to:

IceCat

Emulator

xemu

Yuzu

SuperTuxKart (free homebrew game)

Controllers

Microsoft Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2. Requires upstream support for Linux: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/7211

Sony PlayStation DualSense Edge. Requires SDL 2.26.5: "Added mapping for DualSense Edge Wireless Controller on Linux" - https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/tag/release-2.26.5

Unique software notes

  • Political messaging
  • Easter egg antifeature
    • Lorenzo said in the directory-discuss mailing-list: "one morning I executed that editor to take some notes and I got scared when suddenly it started typing by itself a message."

Missing free software in the ecosystem

See also https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory_talk:Artificial_Intelligence_Project_Team#Free_software_replacements_that_are_missing

Bug workarounds

Misc

--prefer-free-formats as it is now acts like a --force-free-formats and this causes all the problem. (aka the need for overly long selector/filter lines instead of a simple [height <= 1080p] and --prefer-free-formats) see my previous comments for more details." - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/6018#issuecomment-313074618

Freedom politics

IM-protocol government communication

Emacs

DEs

F-Droid

Play Store is trying to downgrade RetroArch (and potentially other apps?) installed from F-Droid - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2739

Incompatible with Google TV

Google TV is used by Chromecast with Google TV 4K, and Chromecast with Google TV (HD).

Google TV issues:

Text editors

Editing text files on Chromecast is not feasible. When using any text editor, navigating with the cursor and then entering edit mode results in the cursor being positioned at the bottom of the document.

licenseutils

I've contacted the author of the *licenseutils* package and asked him to make automated verification possible. Currently there are over 2000 software that we need to verify licenses for on the list below, doing it manually isn't feasible.

Ubuntu

MATE

Retroarch

devilspie2

https://www.nongnu.org/devilspie2/ Seems to be unmaintained

My bug reports:

Free JS

Haketilo

Not avalible in addons.mozilla.org yet.

"I should finish my GitHub registration client. Currently I believe you need nonfree software to register for GitHub, but recently Haketilo added support for bypassing CORS, so it should be possible to write a free software client to solve the CAPTCHA now." - User:jacobk

Unique projects

Games

Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)

Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) software: Learning multiple languages through online courses are part of an emerging trend, which in many ways are more accessible compared with in-class courses. However, only proprietary apps exist.

LanguageTool clone

We need a free option to LanguageTool.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LanguageTool

"LanguageTool is a free and open-source grammar checker, and all its features are available for download. LanguageTool website connects to a proprietary sister project LanguageTool Plus, which provides improved error detection for English and German, as well as easier revision of longer texts, following the open-core model. LanguageTool Plus also uses n-grams as part of its freemium business model

LanguageTool web service can be used via a web interface in a web browser, or via a specialized client-side plug-ins for Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, Apache OpenOffice, Vim, Emacs, Firefox, Thunderbird, and Google Chrome. Its web app client can also be integrated on websites."

It would be useful to write plugins to privacy focused chat software, including:

Drug legality

A database that list all classified substances for each country, and an API that enables developers to access it. For example, this will enable developers to build an app that can be used to show which substances that are legal and illegal in a selected country, and the typical penalty for given amounts. This can prevent tourist to avoid risks they might be totally unaware of, or might introduce them to therapeutic possibilities (eg ayahuasca retreats).

FoodData Central: Calculator for custom quantity and combined entries

Feature request: Combined food items (recipies) My Food Data (https://www.myfooddata.com/) offers a web based nutrition calculator that can be used to make recipes (combining food items) and calculate the total nutrient value. For example:

https://tools.myfooddata.com/protein-calculator/170422-169705/oz-100g/1-1/1/100g-100g/1-1

  • 1 oz pea sprouts
  • 100 g uncooked oats

However, the My Food Data API (https://api1.myfooddata.com/) is secret.

Are you planning to make it possible to make recipes from your API as described above, or is this already possible?

GNU/Linux

F-Droid

List of _important_ apps that can be found in Google Play but not in F-Droid.

Human languages

Requests

I've sent this message 16 Aug 2015 to [libreplanet-discuss](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2015-08/msg00030.html), and repeatedly to the FSF, RMS:

Chrome Web Store is the official Chrome web browser website for
supported exentions. However, it can also be used to install extensions
to the free variants of Chrome known as Chromium and Iridium (built on
Chromium + improved privacy).

Iridium (unstable) can be installed from:
https://launchpad.net/~strukturag/+archive/ubuntu/iridium-unstable.
Iridiums extension directory is located in
~/.config/iridium/Default/Extensions/.

However, Chrome Web Store do not show the license for the extensions
which makes it hard to verify which extensions that are free or not. You
have to install the extension and manually look into the source code of
each files in the extension directory.

I suggest that the FSF contact Google
(https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/chrome/business/devices/contact.html)
and ask them to add "License(s)" to the default text to the extensions
in Chrome Web Store so we can build a verified free repository in the FSD.

# Response 30 Mar 2017
> DBH: I don't want to burden you, should I ask them myself every 3rd month for example?
> RMS: Today I had a discussion about it.  Sooner or later, things will start moving.

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