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]>
The black bars above and below a printed picture were neither in the
picture nor in the layout. A PNG or JPEG in a tab of its own is shown by
the engine on a viewer page whose background is rgb(14, 14, 14), and Qt
prints page backgrounds by default; 0.2.6.1 printed that page.
A picture is now taken as itself — drawn onto white, capped at 300 dpi
across Letter — and laid out on the printer's paper by the preview, with
Size (as large as fits down to 25%), Position (nine squares), Paper
(automatic, upright, sideways) and Fill the whole page, which says it
cuts the edges off and is never the default. The preview is the PDF that
prints, laid out again after each change. Worksheet PDFs and lesson pages
get no picture controls and are unchanged.
Page backgrounds are no longer printed for lesson pages either, as in
Chrome; Blink darkens light text when it does that, so a white-on-black
page prints readable grey on white. "Colour" is "Color" in the print
interface and the manual.
Lab: 135 print checks, now including eight picture layouts measured on
the job file CUPS kept — byte-identical to the preview, within 1 point of
where asked, no ink anywhere else. Printed from the real session with the
pointer: 50% top left, Elmer-66, the same. Not yet on paper.
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]>
The tab strip is drawn from the classroom's own palette, the one the
panel, Parent Call and Presentations read: larger titles, an accent
under the active tab, worksheets marked with a document icon. Its one
corner widget is the lesson's size and Print — not a new-tab button. With
one tab the strip stays hidden, as before; a change of size shows a
moment's badge instead, and the right-click menu and keys still work.
The window is named "Lesson — Wonder Ink" and carries its own icon.
The print preview showed "Page 1 could not be shown" in the real
session while printing correctly: poppler 25.03 does not write to stdout
when asked for "-" — it writes a file called "-.png" into the current
directory, which for Wonder Ink is the teacher's home. Pages are now
rendered into a directory of their own, and the lab print check fails
any preview that does not draw its page.
The teacher's manual has lesson size and printing.
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]>
