Pirate Praveen  

As announced earlier, I started collecting important missing features for daily driving a gnu/linux phone.

You can see the currently identified list here,
codema.in/g/D8TO7J5c/tags/libr please contribute more.

Use GNU/Linux (not android) as a daily driver already?

Have you tried using and given up?

Are you keen to switch away from #Android to a more sustainable approach to developing an operating system, where collecting maximum personal data is not its driving philosophy?

#mobian #debian

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Marius Melzer  

@praveen I've been using an FLX1 as,daily driver (though it still has problems with mobile internet which are currently being addressed) for two weeks now. I'm very happy how well things work already.
Largest pain points:

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Marius Melzer  

@praveen
#waydroid is awesome and things like signal work without a problem but the android apps are still too much of a separate world (no shared clipboard, only one shared folder - sending a photo needs moving it with the linux file manager to the shared folder and then with the

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Marius Melzer  

@praveen

Many apps are adaptable which is great and many feel snappy (incl ff, calendar, all waydroid apps) but some important ones feel slow and scroll choppily, e.g Gnome Software and #tuba

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Marius Melzer  

@praveen
Typing on squeekboard feels a lot less good than on the android keyboard. I think it's a bit too small on vertical and a bit too large on horizontal mode and it does not support special characters when holding long on a similar character (e.g. a and ä) and the space for "space" is too small. Also there seems to be no option to manually close it.

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Marius Melzer  

@praveen
Gnome Maps lags behind android maps apps by a far margin, no clicking on POIs, no search for nearby POIs, no offline mode

Gnome Files is almost unusable, scrolling opens the context menu and multiple selection via long click does not work. The FLX1 has a rudimentary alternative for that reason.

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Marius Melzer  

@praveen

- libadwaita based apps: when scrolling, the item that is under your finger gets highlighted which is surprisingly bad for the feeling
- selecting, copy paste is working but unreliably, often it needs 2-3 tries or some context menu gets opened and in the way (eg in ff)

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Marius Melzer  

@praveen
- opening the phosh views needs at least a drag of 1/5th of the screen from the display bottom or top which is too much on the large FLX1 screenother than that, #phosh is awesome: fast, snappy, beautiful

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
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@rasumi This has been changed two months ago already: gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/p

And what do you mean by "there seems to be no option to manually close [the keyboard]"? It was there since the very beginning.

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Marius Melzer  

@dos awesome that it has already been fixed, thanks for the hint!

Regarding closing squeekboard: this is how it looks like for me, am I somehow missing the close button? Seems to be a fairly new version.

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak  

@rasumi Tap and hold the bottom bar.

There used to be a clearly visible button there which I adored, but people wanted the bar to be thin, UX be damned 😝

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