Phosh 0.51, a mobile desktop environment based on GNOME technologies and the GTK library, has been released. Initially developed by Purism as a GNOME Shell alternative for the Librem 5 smartphone, the environment has since become an unofficial GNOME project and is used in postmarketOS, Mobian, Droidian, some firmware versions for Pine64 devices, and the Fedora edition for smartphones. Phosh uses the Phoc composite server running on Wayland and a custom on-screen keyboard. The project's work is licensed under the GPLv3+ license.
Among the changes:
- A button to enable/disable location detection has been added to the quick settings.
- In quick settings, the "caffeine" function has been expanded with the ability to disable sleep mode for a selected period of time.
- Screen brightness control has been improved. The automatically selected brightness level is now calculated based on the average range of ambient light values. The brightness slider has been switched from changing the absolute value to setting an offset relative to the automatically selected brightness level. An indicator indicating automatic brightness is enabled is now located next to the brightness slider. A visual effect has been implemented for a smooth transition to the new automatically selected brightness value. A button for enabling/disabling automatic brightness adjustment has been added to the status bar.
- Added the ability to configure the minimum brightness level of the flashlight via hwdb/udev.
- Composite server Phoc has been migrated to use wlroots 0.19.2 release.
- Alarm sound selection has been added to the phosh-mobile-settings configurator. A plugin icon has been added to the top panel for the quick settings block. Volume settings have been expanded.
- A thumbnail generation service (thumbnailer) has been added to xdg-desktop-portal-phosh. When navigating through directories in the file selection interface, missing thumbnails informing about file content types are now generated on the fly.
- Fairphone 6 screen information has been added to gmobile, a set of handlers for GNOME on mobile devices.
- Updated dependency versions: wlroots 0.19.2, GNOME 49, Calls 49.1.1, cellbroadcastd 0.0.3, feedbackd 0.8.7, feedbackd-device-themes 0.8.7, callaudiod 0.1.10, wys 0.1.12, mmsd-tng 2.6.4.
Source: opennet.ru
