Recently, a new release of Phosh 0.55 has been published. Phosh is a screen shell designed for mobile devices that is based on GNOME technologies and the GTK library. Initially developed by Purism as a counterpart to GNOME Shell for the Librem 5 smartphone, Phosh has now become one of the unofficial GNOME projects and is utilized in various platforms such as postmarketOS, Mobian, ALT Mobile, Droidian, some firmware for Pine64 devices, and the Fedora edition for smartphones. Phosh utilizes a Phoc composite server running on top of Wayland, along with its own on-screen keyboard. The project developments are distributed under the GPLv3+ license.
The latest update of Phosh, version 0.55, includes several changes:
- Added a new component called syncbus, featuring a server implementation for accessing the functions of the P2P file synchronization system Syncthing via D-Bus. An initial prototype of a mobile client for Syncthing, based on the Adwaita library and written in Rust, has been developed.
- A button has been added to the quick settings block to enable or disable file synchronization via Syncthing.
- The introduction of the phosh-first-boot interface during the initial boot process has been implemented. This interface assists in creating a user and configuring their environment, with the code being written in Rust.
- Devices without a light sensor will now have the automatic brightness adjustment and screen dimming functionalities disabled.
- The Phoc composite server now utilizes Wayland protocols such as “
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