Phosh 0.39 Released: Bringing GNOME Environment to Smartphones

Published release Phosh 0.39, a screen shell for mobile devices based on GNOME technologies and the GTK library. The environment was initially developed by Purism as an analogue of GNOME Shell for the Librem 5 smartphone, but then became one of the unofficial GNOME projects and is used in postmarketOS, Mobian, some firmware for Pine64 devices and the Fedora edition for smartphones. Phosh uses a composite server Phocrunning on top of Wayland, as well as its own on-screen keyboard squeakboard. Project developments spread licensed under GPLv3+.

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  • In overview mode, the ability to distribute applications into folders has been added.
  • Added support for enabling night mode via the quick settings drop-down panel.
  • In the menu shown when you hold down the power button, removed truncation in the center of long words for Russian localization, due to which “Block” was displayed instead of “Block”.
  • In a composite server Phoc added animation of the switch being on top of other windows (always-on-top).
  • To the on-screen keyboard squeakboard New button design styles have been added: change-view, character-group, placeholder and subtle-highlight.
  • In the configurator phosh-mobile-settings added an interface for managing the contents of the quick settings panel. Added option to ignore connected hardware keyboards.
  • Updated dependency versions: wlroots 0.17.2, GNOME 46, feedbackd 0.3.0, feedbackd-device-themes 0.1.0, callaudiod 0.1.7, wys 0.1.12, mmsd-tng 2.6.0.

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