#sailfishos-meeting: Sailfish OS, open source, collaboration -- 12th February 2026

Meeting started by rainemak at 16:01:49 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Meeting information and agenda can be found here: (rainemak, 16:01:49)
    2. https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/27468 (rainemak, 16:01:50)

  2. Brief introduction (5 min). Please prefix your name/handle with #info (rainemak, 16:01:54)
    1. Raine Mäkeläinen, Jolla (rainemak, 16:02:02)
    2. Ruben De Smet - rubdos - community (rubdos[m], 16:02:20)
    3. Matti Viljanen, Jolla (direc85[m], 16:02:41)
    4. mettska, User (mettska, 16:04:50)
    5. Andrew Branson, Jolla (abranson, 16:05:06)

  3. Will the J2 have HBM (high brightness mode) (5 mins -- MeeGo-Junky) (rainemak, 16:07:11)
    1. <MeeGo-Junky> In the region where I live HBM is really essential: (rainemak, 16:07:19)
    2. <MeeGo-Junky> On the Xperia 10 V with current 5.0.0.72 beta there is no (rainemak, 16:07:19)
    3. <MeeGo-Junky> HBM (at least to my awareness) and this renders the (rainemak, 16:07:19)
    4. <MeeGo-Junky> device useless outdoors, meaningful use only indoors (rainemak, 16:07:19)
    5. <MeeGo-Junky> possible. The same device with stock Andoid (that has (rainemak, 16:07:20)
    6. <MeeGo-Junky> HBM) is a pleasure to use. (rainemak, 16:07:21)
    7. <MeeGo-Junky> Also on my Volla Quintus HBM makes a striking difference: (rainemak, 16:07:23)
    8. <MeeGo-Junky> with HBM enabled, SFOS shines and the device is useable (rainemak, 16:07:25)
    9. <MeeGo-Junky> outdoors. (rainemak, 16:07:27)
    10. <MeeGo-Junky> Therefore: is there anything planned about the screen (rainemak, 16:07:29)
    11. <MeeGo-Junky> brightness of J2? (rainemak, 16:07:31)
    12. <Jolla> We cannot yet confirm the HBM but taken into account. HBM (rainemak, 16:07:33)
    13. <Jolla> should be ~800 nits. We are working on a more technical Forum (rainemak, 16:07:35)
    14. <Jolla> post. We'll try to cover various questions that have been asked (rainemak, 16:07:37)
    15. <Jolla> at the Forum and on other channels. Let's try to cover this one (rainemak, 16:07:39)
    16. <Jolla> in more detail as well. Every day matters when clarifying (rainemak, 16:07:41)
    17. <Jolla> things. (rainemak, 16:07:43)

  4. Unreliability of Android apps in secondary user accounts (10 mins -- asked by headlamp_mapper) (rainemak, 16:14:22)
    1. <headlamp_mapper> Installing Android apps on secondary user accounts (rainemak, 16:14:28)
    2. <headlamp_mapper> seems to work correctly at first (they can run in the (rainemak, 16:14:28)
    3. <headlamp_mapper> background and send notifications). When switching (rainemak, 16:14:28)
    4. <headlamp_mapper> users to defaultuser and back to the secondary (rainemak, 16:14:28)
    5. <headlamp_mapper> account, the apps disappear from the app drawer. The (rainemak, 16:14:28)
    6. <headlamp_mapper> apps still work (notifications work and apps can be (rainemak, 16:14:30)
    7. <headlamp_mapper> opened from push notifications). Is this a known bug (rainemak, 16:14:31)
    8. <headlamp_mapper> and can Jolla investigate? (rainemak, 16:14:33)
    9. <Jolla> First a bit of background. Work on the Sailfish OS multiuser (rainemak, 16:15:00)
    10. <Jolla> support started around 2020 and back then requirements were such (rainemak, 16:15:01)
    11. <Jolla> that Android apps won't show up for additional users. Further, (rainemak, 16:15:01)
    12. <Jolla> some OS features will not be available for additional users. One (rainemak, 16:15:01)
    13. <Jolla> could think an additional user as a limited user. (rainemak, 16:15:01)
    14. <Jolla> (rainemak, 16:15:02)
    15. <Jolla> Application data is stored per user but a Sailfish OS (rainemak, 16:15:03)
    16. <Jolla> application is installed so that they are shared for all users (rainemak, 16:15:05)
    17. <Jolla> (as per harbour guidelines). Back in that time also Android apps (rainemak, 16:15:07)
    18. <Jolla> were shared between all the users. Thus, we needed to "hide" (rainemak, 16:15:09)
    19. <Jolla> them from the additional users. (rainemak, 16:15:11)
    20. <Jolla> (rainemak, 16:15:13)
    21. <Jolla> Less than 2 years ago AppSupport instances were changed to be (rainemak, 16:15:15)
    22. <Jolla> user specific. After this change we could in theory allow (rainemak, 16:15:17)
    23. <Jolla> installation of Android for additional users as well. Probably (rainemak, 16:15:21)
    24. <Jolla> this should be controlled by the device owner (defaultuser). (rainemak, 16:15:23)
    25. <Jolla> (rainemak, 16:15:25)
    26. <Jolla> Long story short. It's currently a feature that requires more (rainemak, 16:15:27)
    27. <Jolla> work. When do we have time to improve it needs more planning. (rainemak, 16:15:29)

  5. Open Pull Requests (PRs) to discussion (5 mins -- asked by Jolla) (rainemak, 16:24:59)
  6. General discussion (10 mins) (rainemak, 16:31:22)
    1. https://github.com/sailfishos/gecko-dev/tree/sailfishos-esr102 is public, so in theory shouldn't be an issue to test it from community side (rubdos[m], 16:35:00)

  7. Next meeting time and date (2 mins) (rainemak, 16:51:39)
    1. https://build.sailfishos.org/project/show/home:abranson:gtk (abranson, 16:51:44)
    2. Next meeting will be held on Thursday 26th February 2026 at 04:00pm UTC: 2026-02-26T1600Z (rainemak, 16:55:19)


Meeting ended at 16:55:48 UTC (full logs).

Action items

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People present (lines said)

  1. rainemak (93)
  2. rubdos[m] (24)
  3. mal (11)
  4. abranson (9)
  5. direc85[m] (7)
  6. piggz[m] (3)
  7. sailbot (2)
  8. rubdos (2)
  9. mettska (1)
  10. Keto (1)


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