Okay, so I finally published my first impressions running #Phosh and #Mobian on the #PocoF1!
Screenshots included, along with a few photos so you can see what the phone itself looks like. Link below, and sneak preview attached 😉️
https://badrihippo.thekambattu.rocks/clog/72-hours-with-phosh-and-mobian/
@badrihippo Nice write up! Some outlook:
- Background setting will be possible without CSS soon (hopefully form 0.43 on): https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1262
- We have more and (and hopefully) better dictionaries for presage now: https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.42.1/#related-components .Won't help with the slight typos you mentioned but there's an fzf based completer too. maybe we should combine those?
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- gnome-screenshot works for screenshots (or power button long pess)
- We'll get `alt` and `ctrl` in p-o-s in the next release too: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-osk-stub/-/merge_requests/165
And just so no one gets scared: audio / call setup is fully out of the box on non Qualcomm devices (like PinePhone and Liberm5) already 😃.
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@phosh oh yay, good to know about the background setting! (The least mission-critical, but also the most fun 😉)
I didn't know about the fzf-based completer, but combining those sounds cool! Actually, I've been playing with @zachdecook's swipeGuess, which is surprisingly good at fixing typos too.
Oh yeah I've used power button long-press a bit, but I usually need a timeout to set things up 😅 didn't know about gnome-screenshot; I will try that!
@badrihippo @phosh @zachdecook Funny enough the background thing is rather more involved than lots of other things we did recently but it helped cleaning up lots of things.
Regarding screenshots: phosh's nightly builds (https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-nightly/) ship a gnome-screenshot with https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-screenshot/-/merge_requests/69 applied but we should move the UI bits into phosh eventually so we can have timers, etc as you mentioned.
@badrihippo @phosh and there's https://flathub.org/apps/org.adishatz.Screenshot which works with phosh right away (and which could be packaged for Debian too asi it has few dependencies)
@badrihippo @phosh Testing of the nightly packages is always welcome (as they shape up the next Phosh release).
There's not necessarily a need to flash as they mix well with Debian/Mobian Trixie (it behaves basically like Debian Experimental) - but booting from SD and adding the nightly repo would put you on the safe side.