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Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by Causality1 »

josteink wrote: post #17
microtonal wrote: post #6

I don't have enough background, but I recently read that some distributions could be a fire hazard due to the lack of proper temperature regulation: https://xnux.eu/log/#017 https://xnux.eu/log/#018 If this was the case, is that still a concern and which distributions/systems address this problem?

I believe all those concerns were put to rest once the modularised design of the phone was taken into consideration. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24596248

Not at all. The specced hardware charge controller has no thermal circuitry and only disables the battery at a 6 amp current draw.

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by oriesdan »

ognarb wrote: post #18
oriesdan wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, thanks for taking questions. What is the state of the phone call/sms/mms support in Plasma Mobile on Pinephone? Also : will the CE edition be some sort of Neon mobile, or will it be based on PostmarketOS or something?

Yes it works! SMS and MMS are supported via the application Spacebar. The application got a lot of improvement last months. https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2020/11/12/plasma-mobile-updat... Calls are also working fine. The only "exception" being one carrier in the USA does not seem to work with ofono (the underlying framework) yet, but that issue was also with the previous UBports edition.

That's awesome. Great job!

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by mrwoggle »

ognarb wrote: post #3

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

> If you are interested in developing, you will be getting early access to an ambitious Free Software mobile platform and you can help contribute to Plasma Mobile and get a headway designing new apps that you can test and deploy right now.

Any link to this? How do I make a simple hello world in Plasma Mobile :)

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by ognarb »

mrwoggle wrote: post #23
ognarb wrote: post #3

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

> If you are interested in developing, you will be getting early access to an ambitious Free Software mobile platform and you can help contribute to Plasma Mobile and get a headway designing new apps that you can test and deploy right now. Any link to this? How do I make a simple hello world in Plasma Mobile :)

We have a bit of documentation:

* Plasma Mobile dev documentation: https://docs.plasma-mobile.org/

* General Kirigami documentation: https://develop.kde.org/docs/kirigami/

* API documention of Kirigami: https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kirigami/html/

The documentation could be better, so if you have any trouble don't hesitate to ask questions in our Matrix channel: https://webchat.kde.org/#/room/#plasmamobile:kde.org

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by jraph »

I just received a Pinephone Manjaro Comunity edition. 10€ is given to the project edition. Had I known KDE was next, I would have waited a bit! I already use Plasma on my laptop, it is a great desktop environment.

I replaced Manjaro by Mobian, it works way better for me. KDE Neon did not work too well, unfortunately (it could not turn off the phone screen, and it didn't work correctly with an external screen), but I have hope.

I'd especially like to install Plasma Mobile on Mobian, I really trust Debian's stability and trust KDE better than Gnome on getting UX just right and be more lightweight too.

Phosh is good, but they apparently have decided to remove auto rotation (which I need!), having to tap on the status bar instead of swiping is a bit strange, having to click on a X to close apps instead of swiping vertically is a bit strange too and by the way closing apps is unreliable. They prevent windows from being moved with fingers, which is fine if apps are entirely designed for mobile but this gets really annoying as soon as the world is not perfect, which it is far from being. I have the same feeling with Phosh as with Gnome, that things look beautiful and attention was paid on the appearance, but Plasma overall felt more intuitive and lightweight. I might contribute to the project at some point.

Congratulations on being the next Pinephone's Community Edition!

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by jonathonf »

jraph wrote: post #25

I just received a Pinephone Manjaro Comunity edition. 10€ is given to the project edition. Had I known KDE was next, I would have waited a bit! I already use Plasma on my laptop, it is a great desktop environment. I replaced Manjaro by Mobian, it works way better for me. KDE Neon did not work too well, unfortunately (it could not turn off the phone screen, and it didn't work correctly with an external screen), but I…

> 10€ is given to the project edition.

Do you know where this payment goes to? e.g. is it to their OpenCollective or LFX donation accounts?

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by sudhirkhanger »

ognarb wrote: post #3

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

It would be great if Plasma Mobile would look into supporting JetPack Compose which has been ported to Linux Desktop by JetBrains.

Even if I want to learn QML there is only so many things I could do in a day even if I want to. Plus JetPack Compose brings huge developer base to Plasma Mobile.

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose/

Re: PinePhone – KDE Community edition

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Post by butz »

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.
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