Published release of Phosh 0.57, a screen shell for mobile devices based on GNOME technologies and the GTK library. The environment was initially developed by Purism as an analogue of GNOME Shell for the Librem 5 smartphone, but then became one of the unofficial GNOME projects and is used in postmarketOS, Mobian, ALT Mobile, Droidian, some firmware for Pine64 devices, and the Fedora edition for smartphones. Phosh uses a Phoc composite server running on top of Wayland, as well as its own on-screen keyboard. Project developments distributed under the GPLv3+ license.
Among changes:
- With a horizontal screen orientation, a two-column top panel is implemented, activated by a sliding gesture from top to bottom. One column shows the quick settings menu, and the second a list of notifications.
- An animated transition effect from the current application to the screen with an overview of running programs has been implemented, but is currently disabled by default.
- The Phoc composite server has switched to the release of the wlroots 0.20.2 library. The Wayland protocol phoc-foreign-toplevel-pidfd has been implemented, allowing the use of process file descriptors (pidfd) to interact with top-level windows.
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