Gnome Shell on my Pinephone Pro
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- Today I review the state of Gnome Shell on the Pinephone Pro. While it is similar to Phosh, it's still its own thing. For the purpose of this review, I installed Gnome Shell using postmarkedOS. The phone is definitely more feature complete than it was previously, but it still feels like alpha software. One of the surprises is just how much less polished than Phosh. I think for most people it is the better option if they want a GNOME like environment.
Squeekboard progress has been minimal, so it still isn't really useful for languages that require completion for entering complex characters However, it is a very nice basic keyboard.
It is also important to note that the actual software included between Gnome Shell and Phosh is basically identical.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Start
00:00:49 postMarketOS Version
00:01:02 Intro
00:01:21 Login and Main Screen
00:02:57 Control Center
00:03:41 Lock Screen
00:04:23 Welcome Screen
00:04:56 Contacts
00:05:52 Clock App
00:07:08 Calculator App
00:07:29 Settings App
00:11:52 Image Viewer
00:12:05 Console Emulator
00:12:15 Phone App
00:12:42 Chat App
00:12:55 Firefox
00:13:14 Calendar App
00:14:18 Music App
00:14:29 File Manager App
00:14:41 Software App
00:15:23 Text Editor
00:15:34 Firefox Mysteriously Appears
00:16:27 Tweaks App
00:17:09 Let's Try Applying Software Updates
00:18:07 The Volume Rocker
00:18:27 Conclusion
Pinephone software releases:
wiki.pine64.org/index.php?tit...
postmarketOS
postmarketos.org/
GNOME Project
postmarketos.org/
#pinephone #linux #postmarketOS #gnomeshell #gnome 
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I see the promise - the design language, when it works, is excellent.
...... But it really doesn't work very often
Thanks for the update!!
I think it's just pretty awesome to have the ability using the same shell on desktop as on mobile, sharing the whole software stack. I mean if performance gets better, you can just stick it into a monitor and use it instead of your laptop.
Totally! I also think there is also a good chance that they just forgot to enable some optimizations during compile.
What I don't understand is if it is the same stack, why does the file type not work correctly when opening a file. You would think the txt file would have open in what is obviously gedit.
@@bitterepic Looks like they haven't configured the default apps properly. For text files it's using the default text editor in GNOME usually which isn't set as you've shown. Unsure why it wouldn't be configured in a release though.
The text editor you've shown isn't GEdit by the way. It's a newer re-implementation of a basic text editor for GNOME in GTK4 which is only called "Text Editor" now. I think it doesn't come with plugin support for example as GEdit does.
Edit: Nevermind, the default apps don't list a text editor anymore... but I assume if they haven't configured those then there aren't defaults set for extensions either.
@@thejackimonster9689you should be able to export the mimetypes tho
The night light changes the screen color (only at night, turning it on at day does nothing)
it's not a flashlight and I assume it would work if you wait until night or manually change the schedule
Thank you for the correction!
It looks beautiful, very surprised!
Unrelated, but any advice on installing Postmarket OS to emmc through pmbootstrap? I've tried it a few times now, and the phone freezes during the startup screen and crashes.
i see a lot of what you are doing is wrong
gnome has its diferences in the controll center, the bluetooth driver does work, the night light isnt the flashlight and to swip up on the lock screen you cant swip up from the bottom of the screen also the post market os version is a lot worse than the manjaro arm version, but i do have to say the manjaro arm version has issues updating
Edge runs a lot better than the 23.12 version. Hopefully there might be a 24.05 version.
I like this type of phone, but now I need 8 core cpu, minimum 8gb lpgddr4 ram and jack. The only thing if I will buy is for safety, opensource and display out via USB-C. Possible for desktop-like interface. Keyboard case is interesting, but not a very interesting because still just a little phone, not a tablet or laptop.
> 8 cores
lol, apple a16 has also "only" 6 cores and still is over 50x faster than this crappy soc of pinephone "pro".
I would just rather use AOSP