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A quick poll to #Linux phone users: what desktop do you use on your #PinePhone / #Librem5 / ..., and what are the main drawbacks you found in it?

This would be useful to know what projects our readers would be most interested in following.

Announcing "Can My Phone Run Linux?": listing over 200 Linux-supported smartphones

https://tuxphones.com/announcing-many-tuxphones-com/ #linux #postmarketos #ubuntutouch

Workflow, the #Linux "Screen Time" app based on ActivityWatch, has been released:

https://gitlab.com/cunidev/workflow

#KDE Plasma Mobile has received tons of improvements and UI polishing in the last weeks, and introduced a new "Plasma Nano" minimal package for embedded devices.

https://tuxphones.com/kde-plasma-mobile-plasma-nano-linux-shell-embedded-devices/ #linux #plasmamobile

Video shows PinePhone prototype detailed assembly and boot to Plasma Mobile

https://tuxphones.com/pinephone-linux-smartphone-assembled-final-device-video-running-postmarketos-plasma-mobile/

#Glimpse is a fork of GIMP with a moderized user interface - and a less offensive name to encourage usage also in professional environments. It is also somewhat related to the original project (developed also by some GNOME devs) and promises to work together with upstream developers.

@glimpse

An alternative concept of "placeholder image".

Work in progress 🔧

As anticipated in the poll of last week, I'm currently developing an unified resource tells you if your #smartphone or smartwatch is able to boot any (and what) kind of #Linux, with information on its current level of support (alpha to daily driver) and also aimed (in the limits this field allows) at relatively inexperienced users.

More details, and hopefully an usable/useful release, in the next days/weeks!

#postmarketOS (XFCE) running on my Sony Xperia Z1

Designing apps for #Linux #smartphones: a "quick start guide" by GNOME developer Tobias Bernard [updated]

https://tuxphones.com/linux-smartphone-app-design-gtk-gnome-tutorial/

My latest project is trying to build a #Linux shell for old smartphones that uses as little RAM as possible. The first prototype (in the picture below) uses a #Qt Widgets UI (now ~20MB RAM, but many things are missing) on an #OpenBox WM (~10MB RAM). The idea would be having a "LXDE for smartphones", especially very old ones. Thoughts? :)

GNOME is getting ready for next-generation Linux smartphones

https://tuxphones.com/gnome-desktop-phosh-ready-for-purism-necunos-linux-smartphones/