Weekly Update (14/2022): Maui Shell Alpha, Mobian goes Tow-Boot, Suspend on the Librem 5 and AVMultiPhone is back!
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Another calm week, where I spent most of my free time on LinuxPhoneApps has gone by. Here's what happened:
Commentary in italics.
Hardware enablement
- David Hamner for Purism: Librem 5 Suspend Preview. I've briefly tried it, and it works for me :-) Feels a lot like when Crust was new in PinePhone-Land.
Software progress
GNOME ecosystem
- Phosh is adding more swipy stuff: Swipe-able quick settings on the lock screen and Home-bar/overview.
- Chris Davis: Plans for GNOME 43 and Beyond. Nice plans!
- This Week in GNOME: #38 Among Toasts And Tabs.
Plasma/Maui ecosystem
- Nitrux: Maui Shell Alpha Release.
- Nate Graham: This week in KDE: Get ready for a big one!.
- Volker Krause: February/March in KDE Itinerary.
- Samarth Raj: Sok’22 Week 11: Finalizing the Left-Right Click Activity
- Phoronix: Qt 6.3 To Boast Improved Wayland Integration, Easily Allows Custom Shell Extensions.
Sailfish OS
- martyone: [Release notes] Sailfish SDK 3.9.
Sxmo
- Anjandev Momi: Breaking Change in master branch for non-pinephone users.
Capyloon
- Capyloon have published another release today, improving Web Extensions support, UX cleanup and implementing app management commands for Linux Phones.
Distro news
- Mobian images for the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro are no longer shipped with device specific uboot bootloaders, users will need to get tow-boot set up instead.
- Archivista: That’s why the Archivista phone is now in its second generation. The previous release of this postmarketOS based "putting Mate desktop on the PinePhone" distro was in July of 2020.
- postmarketOS Edge: pinephone: suspend is broken for some users.
- Dan Johansen: This month in Manjaro (March 2022).
Worth reading
Ambitious Projects
- James Livesey on Dev.to: Project Prism: on the road to building an open smartphone. Ambitious project, great to see accessibility among the project goals!
PinePhone Keyboard Software
- xnux.eu (Megi): Pinephone keyboard power manager.
Sailfish OS and its legacy
- Camden Bruce: Sailfish OS — Meego’s legacy. Nice posts, I love it when history is being discussed!
App lists and such
- LinuxPhoneApps blog: New apps of LINMOBapps, Q1/2022 🎉. The Q2 post will have a different name (s/LINMOBapps/LinuxPhoneApps/g), but for this one this title felt appropriate!
Worth watching
PinePhone (Pro)
- socketwench:PinePhone Pro Week 2 Review. Fun war stories, and accurate words on Plasma Mobile.
- Drew Naylor: How to Switch TTYs with the PinePhone Keyboard Case (systemd-only method). Nice tutorial!
- Bill Degener: Inside Pinephone Convergence dock Part 2.
- Ivon Huang: 自由開源的Linux手機: PinePhone開箱評測
Librem 5 Suspend
- Purism: Librem 5 Suspend Preview.
postmarketOS Installation
Ubuntu Touch Installation
- Solution Engineer: How To Install Ubuntu Touch Os In Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 || Step By Step.
- Scientific Perspective: Ubuntu Touch & multirom installation | multibooting | POCO F1 [No voice].
Ubuntu Touch Details & Dev
- totodesbois100: Telephony stack overview on UbuntuTouch. How messaging-app, dialer-app talk to ofono.
- totodesbois100: UbuntuTouch: Dive into music file import issue with music application.
- totodesbois100: Ubuntu Touch, a small journey into history service. Example with Dialer-app,:HistoryManager QML Type.
Linux Phone Gaming
- Cha14ka: Half-Life on PinePhone Pro
- Ivon Huang: Linux Android Waydroid gaming: Fate/Grand Order
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