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@nima if only @gnome Mobile have a better keyboard... Or a switchable keyboard...

@krafting @gnome I don't know what you mean by switchable keyboard, but the osk in my opinion can be a little better by having some haptic feedback and adding a scrollable bar of keys to the top part of the terminal layout

@nima @gnome well a keyboard you could replace, like on Android, for now the keyboard is built into gnome itself, and the keyboard could learn a lot from android keyboards I think, the emoji keyboard is aweful too iirc

@krafting @gnome Ahh, Yeah i agree, That would be nice :D

@nima @gnome I've started a small note to liste everything wrong in mobile linux (and How it is not usable daily for me)
The list is sooo long, I might share it someday somewhere 😅

@krafting @gnome Well I'm working on my own Linux Mobile distro (NimaOS Mobile), so that list would be useful :D

@nima @gnome oooh is it based on pmOS? Or from scratch? Do you have any git or social network for this? :0

@krafting @gnome It's probably gonna be based on Arch if everything goes good, but maybe because of some problems (that i'm gonna explain in a video soon) i rebase to pmOS for the time being :D

github.com/NimaOS
youtube.com/watch?v=hMwDRaD51hs

GitHubNimaOSNimaOS has 8 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

@nima @gnome will watch this later!
I'm not an arch guy anymore, the countless system breaking update doesn't make me feel confident in arch anymore 😅

@krafting @gnome XD
Thanks a lot! Hope you enjoy the video when you watch it :)

@nima Hey again, just published thelist right there : lemmy.world/post/28083599

If you are still interested !

lemmy.worldMy take on the "State of Mobile Linux" - Lemmy.World# Why this post ? I’ve been using a Linux phone for fun for a few months now, and this is all the annoyance that prevent me from being daily-drivable (And some other small thing that I found here and there) I am using a Redmi Note 9S, I’ve been mainly on GNOME Mobile because I love GNOME tech, and I am building apps for GNOME too (Which are mobile friendly 🥳) I also tried Phosh and other DE but I always come back to GNOME. I am using PostmarketOS. There are some striked things, which are the things that got fixed when GNOME 48 was released on PMOS! I might edit this post in the future to say what have been fixed (or do another one, we’ll see) # State of Mobile Linux and missing apps: - no good Bitwarden client - GoldWarden just crash and seems abandonned - eventhe web app is not responsive… - Finamp could work well but have no arm build - No discord app: - we have Dissent, which is decent, but login in is aweful and no voice chat support (we can’t even see the online status) - no jellyfin player app: - Delfin is decent but seems.abandonned… 😟 - GS Connect works, but needs a tweak and UI is not good on small screen - No lemmy apps - waydroid don’t have internet by default, we need to run a command everytime we launch it to add a route. - No good Youtube client (newpipe is bad for the moment and Pipeline just doesn’t work OOB - no tutanota app (no arm build) # State of GNOME Shell - Saving dialog in.text editor.is [http://editor.is] not good - Somewhat laggy compared to Phosh (Not anymore since GNOME 48 🎉 ) - OSK is bad, it needs to be replaceable easily - we could have multiple keyboard installed and switch between them - No recent emoji view 😭️ - Since GNOME 48 it doesn’t even adapt to the locale now… (I have AZERTY set in the setting but the keyboard is now qwerty) - Quick setting should be smaller, android style round icon instead, to fit more on small screen (same goes for Phosh) - We need a OLED theme for GNOME shell mobile - Accent color doesn’t work in the quick settings (Gnome mobile shell use gome 46 as of 21 feb 2025) (Fixed since GNOME 48! 🎉 ) - we need a way to bring up the OSK like on Phosh (holding the botto bar for a sec for example, maybe itcould be customizable too?) - no app icon in the overview of running app, and sometime its hard to know what app is running, especially when havng multiple instance of the same app - would be cool to be able to uninstall app from the app grid (phosh got this in 0.45 iirc) - The power menu when holding the power button just open the quick sretting menu, we need somethng like phosh with a real menu to reboot/turn off the phone - Some apps don’t close correctly and just crash, i will add them here when.I encounter them: - GNOME Solitaire, after clicking on the topbar menus (Fixed in GNOME 48?) - auto rotate doesn’t work (but it does on Phosh) - No pattern unlock # State of Phosh - what is wrong with the emoji keyboard?? it’s bad - gestures are bad, they need to take the same.gesture as gnome shell mobile!! - We NEED to press the unlock button after typing our code (would be neat to have the code automatically unlock the phone when we enter the same amount of characters as our passcode) - Haven’t used it intensively, especially because of the bad gesture # State of apps - GNOME Mines needs to be ported to libadwaita and better support smallscreen - timers in gnome clock are bad (it’s just one beep and if the sound is off, it doesn’t alert me) - alarms doesn’t turn off when clicking or swiping the notification… we need to unlock the phone… and the buttons to turn off are way too small… - gnome calculator bring up the keyboard, which is weird, and it goes on top of the actual app keyboard (Doesn’t go on top anymore, but still shows up…) - gnome software have bad UI when clicking on the size of an app to get the details # The obvious but we know this already - Camera support is rudimental, needs works, and I can’t wait.for it to become better! - No fingerprint sensors support # Device specific : Redmi Note 9S - camera support (same as above) - charging indicator doesn’t work and battery reporting is hit or miss (go up and down) - No fingerprint sensors support - top speaker don’t work - no vibrations # Questions if you have question about x or y app or any feature that you’d want feel free to tell me in the comments ! :) or even If I missed things feel free to correct me! p.s. This list has been made on the linux phone and I’m sorry for the bad english or misspelling of words!

@krafting Thanks! i'll look into it :D