A desktop Plasma makes after the layout has run — the television arriving
after a night-time reboot, as on Tiny Pebbles — now shows the classroom's
wallpaper, and every existing desktop is repaired before the shell starts.
Carries 0.2.6.5's reboot that waits until nobody is using the computer.
Built from this commit, gated on that file, and published to canary as it
is; the file and its sha256 are recorded in the Gitea release v0.2.6.6 and
in docs/testing.md. Stable stays on 0.2.6.4.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Temporary workspace restore: Wonder Ink brings back the teacher's recent
tabs for two hours after they last used it — never the sign-in, which
WonderInk keeps as a Basic-auth password and which is not stored. The
admin-only link bubble is documented, not overridden.
Published to canary: ekklesia-classroom_0.2.6.4_amd64.deb, sha256
80388e7ac3d9a1a266ebc3454f64808b6a0e2cd75b06fa934caf9f2a25026253, gated
on that file as an upgrade from 0.2.6.3 and from 0.2.2. 0.2.6.3 and
0.2.6.2 are on the server as they were; latest.deb and the manifest read
back over HTTPS as 0.2.6.4. Stable still answers 0.2.2; nothing here
wrote to it. No desktop is affected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Black and white is shown in the preview as it prints, and CUPS is given
the file shown; right-click on a picture in a lesson offers Print image,
which prints that picture with the picture layout, and Print page.
Published to canary: ekklesia-classroom_0.2.6.3_amd64.deb, sha256
2b8f26409b5374f08e8d461d8c711307d5180c3b120654df0150a587b7d64710, gated
on that file as an upgrade from 0.2.6.2 and from 0.2.2. 0.2.6.2 is still
on the server as it was. Stable still answers 0.2.2; nothing here wrote
to it. No desktop is affected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Pictures print as the picture — no black bars — at the size and place a
teacher chooses; a presentation that runs out of memory says so and can
be tried again, and the import service survives it; and a notification's
Configure button no longer opens KDE's settings under the teacher account.
Published to canary: ekklesia-classroom_0.2.6.2_amd64.deb, sha256
a7ca958ac8352bb194a2685e4339fe8cafceb5fee871e4c023402c7320945618, gated
on that file as an upgrade from 0.2.6.1 and from 0.2.2. 0.2.6.1 is
still on the server as it was. Stable still answers 0.2.2; nothing here
wrote to it. The laptop is offline and will take this when it is next
on; no desktop is affected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Wonder Ink prints — lessons and worksheets, through a preview — without
the 0.2.2 crash; lessons are the size the browser shows them and zoom;
the tab strip looks like the classroom; and four-part versions work end
to end, with a published version never used again.
Published to canary: ekklesia-classroom_0.2.6.1_amd64.deb, sha256
7bd3aabfbbd6f727be87fea366ecaefb40bd5ada37124c96703e8b9ccf510bc3.
Gated on that exact file as an upgrade from 0.2.6 (the laptop) and from
0.2.2 (the desktops). Stable still answers 0.2.2 and nothing here wrote
to it; the three desktops are unchanged until paper comes out of Elmer
and the owner approves — see docs/testing.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Documentation becomes part of the release rather than a job afterwards.
docs/manual is now the only place teacher instructions are written, and
tools/build-manual produces both versions from it:
classroom-manual.html installed on every machine, showing only the
features THAT device has
classroom-manual.pdf the universal printed manual, every feature,
with a conditional sentence above each
optional page so it stays true in a room that
does not have them all
They cannot drift apart because neither is written by hand, and
build-release.sh builds and checks them on every release: a page that
declares a feature with no printed-if fails the build, because that is
exactly how the printed manual comes to state an optional feature as
though every room had it. So does a page naming a feature device.conf
does not have, and an optional feature with no page at all.
WHAT REACHES THE CLASSROOM ACCOUNT. Only a list of setting NAMES, and
only ones the package already defines as optional applications.
classroom-desktop-layout — already the one place that decides what a
device offers — writes them to /run/ekklesia-classroom/features.json,
and classroom-manual filters that against FEATURES before using it. No
values from device.conf, no broker password, no addresses. With no
manifest at all every page is shown, which is the printed manual and is
never wrong, only less specific.
Help is a Quick Launch button beside Parent Call, deliberately not in
the row with the applications: putting it there would move buttons
teachers reach for without looking. Every room gets it, because a
teacher who needs the manual is by definition one who does not know
where to look.
The PDF is written directly rather than converted. A manual is
headings, paragraphs, bullets, steps and one table; writing that with
the standard fonts is a couple of hundred lines and no dependency, so a
release can be built on any machine with Python. Pictures are embedded
in the digital manual as data URIs so it stays one file that works
wherever it is copied and with the network unplugged; the printed
manual names them instead, which is the one thing this builder does not
do and is noted where somebody would look for it.
Two defects found building it, both of which hung or corrupted the
output rather than failing: a paragraph opening with a bold word
matched the bullet guard but not the bullet rule, so nothing consumed
it and the build spun; and a list item wrapped across two source lines
ended the list, so a three-step procedure printed as three steps all
numbered 1.
Also adds the 0.2.6 physical checklist to docs/testing.md and the
release validator's checks for the Wi-Fi regression, the conversion
pipeline on a real Debian, the fonts, the manual and the dock order.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
