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Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by ognarb »

sto_hristo wrote: post #33
ognarb wrote: post #3

I'm one of the Plasma Mobile developer and I would be happy to answer questions.

How do you see this develop in the future, especially concerning the convergence aspect of it - the ability to hook it up to a monitor and use it as a real desktop computer. Please provide your own personal and unofficial opinion.

The Pinephone supports convergence, but there is still a lot of work needed on the software side. The under-laying technology "Plasmashell" is able to run different view modes: the traditional desktop mode, the mobile mode and the smart tv mode (https://plasma-bigscreen.org/). The missing link is the possibility to switch the view at runtime.

Now while I think the feature is cool, I'm not sure how useful it is. I don't really see myself using it and would prefer in almost all the case using my thinkpad with a good processor and plenty of RAM. This might change with future versions of the Pinephone getting more powerful with the time. For the moment, I'm happy to have the convergence of the applications with Kirigami, so that I only need to develop them once and use a similar interface on both my phone and laptop. And having KDE Connect to share stuff between my phone and my laptop.

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by SirLotsaLocks »

alexmcc81 wrote: post #32
ognarb wrote: post #3

I'm one of the Plasma Mobile developer and I would be happy to answer questions.

Hi! Do the Plasma Mobile developers also provide a distro for the Phone? Is it KDE Neon (Ubuntu) based? What kind of collaboration is there between the various developers for the PinePhone? There seem to be a lot of Kernels with different patches for HW acceleration, IC power management, modem operation etc [1]. Do you apply these to your kernel? [1] https://xnux.eu/log/#020

Yes it's called Plasma Mobile

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by flavor8 »

ognarb wrote: post #3

I'm one of the Plasma Mobile developer and I would be happy to answer questions.

Is Plasma Mobile up to running on tablets now? I got an MS Surface Go 10 months ago and at the time Plasma Mobile didn't support auto screen rotation, so for now I'm running Gnome. (I'd like to switch.)

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by flavor8 »

ilikeerp wrote: post #4

I will be getting this! I wish one day it would include a super high quality camera like Samsung then it would be perfect.

Definitely needs a better camera before I could consider it. A jump to 20MP, and then perhaps forking OpenCamera rather than developing one directly for Pine might be a good way forward.

Does Pine have any recommendations for auto-cloud backup of photos, to replace Google Photos? (Photos is one of the killer apps for me - I could live without the cloud features, but the seamless cloud sync is a major feature.)

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by MawKKe »

opan wrote: post #38
butz wrote: post #29

Probably something to be on a lookout for future releases: it would be better for a regular user if all core applications were named by their function, e.g. Megapixels -> Camera, Kalidori -> Calendar, Angelfish -> Web Browser, etc.

The package names and process names won't change, so this just hides important info. Your browser hangs, you go into htop, you realize you're not sure what it's called. Same with installing them or uninstalling them. I do not think this is an area where you should dumb things down.

This thing is exactly what has been really infuriating on recent ubuntu releases. When a program misbehaves, I have no idea what the actual process is called

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by alexmcc81 »

SirLotsaLocks wrote: post #52
alexmcc81 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! Do the Plasma Mobile developers also provide a distro for the Phone? Is it KDE Neon (Ubuntu) based? What kind of collaboration is there between the various developers for the PinePhone? There seem to be a lot of Kernels with different patches for HW acceleration, IC power management, modem operation etc [1]. Do you apply these to your kernel? [1] https://xnux.eu/log/#020

Yes it's called Plasma Mobile

Plasma Mobile is the desktop and related components (open to correction). There are apparently different distributions (based on Arch, Ubuntu and others [1]).

My question is what the Plasma Mobile PinePhone ships with and if it maintained by the Plasma Mobile team themselves. The Plasma Mobile says that the Ubuntu Neon based one is "official" with confusing double quotes. The blog [2] says that image has been rebased on Ubuntu 20.04. Is this what the KDE PinePhone ships with? If so, what kernel does it use and are the patches I linked to previously included?

[1] https://www.plasma-mobile.org/get/ [2] https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2020/11/12/plasma-mobile-updat...

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