Phosh 0.22.0, a desktop shell for mobile devices based on GNOME technologies and the GTK library, has been released. The environment was originally developed by Purism as an analogue of GNOME Shell for the Librem 5 smartphone, but then became part of the unofficial GNOME projects and is now also used in postmarketOS, Mobian, some firmware for Pine64 devices and the Fedora edition for smartphones. Phosh uses the Phoc composite server running on top of Wayland, as well as its own on-screen squeekboard keyboard. The developments of the project are distributed under the GPLv3+ license.
In the new release, the visual style has been updated and the design of the buttons has been changed. In the battery charge indicator, the gradation of status changes is implemented in 10% increments. Notifications placed on the system lock screen allow the use of action buttons. Updated phosh-mobile-settings configurator and phosh-osk-stub virtual keyboard debugging tool.
At the same time, Ben Cotton, Red Hat's Fedora Program Manager, posted a proposal to begin producing full builds of Fedora Linux for mobile devices shipped with the Phosh shell. The builds will be generated by the Fedora Mobility team, which has so far limited itself to maintaining the 'phosh-desktop' package set for Fedora. Phosh builds are planned to ship starting with Fedora Linux 38 for the x86_64 and aarch64 architectures.
It is assumed that the availability of ready-made installation assemblies for mobile devices will expand the scope of the distribution, attract new users to the project and provide a turnkey solution with a completely open interface for smartphones that can be used on any device supported in the standard Linux kernel. The proposal has not yet been reviewed by the FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), which is responsible for the technical part of the development of the Fedora distribution.
Source: opennet.ru