I've just released the notes I've been taking for months about #MobileLinux here on #Lemmy
Feel free to check it out if you are working for a better #LinuxMobile experience ! Or if you are just curious
lemmy.worldMy take on the "State of Mobile Linux" - Lemmy.World# Why this post ? I’ve been using a Linux phone for fun for a few months now,
and this is all the annoyance that prevent me from being daily-drivable (And
some other small thing that I found here and there) I am using a Redmi Note 9S,
I’ve been mainly on GNOME Mobile because I love GNOME tech, and I am building
apps for GNOME too (Which are mobile friendly 🥳) I also tried Phosh and other
DE but I always come back to GNOME. I am using PostmarketOS. There are some
striked things, which are the things that got fixed when GNOME 48 was released
on PMOS! I might edit this post in the future to say what have been fixed (or do
another one, we’ll see) # State of Mobile Linux and missing apps: - no good
Bitwarden client - GoldWarden just crash and seems abandonned - eventhe web app
is not responsive… - Finamp could work well but have no arm build - No discord
app: - we have Dissent, which is decent, but login in is aweful and no voice
chat support (we can’t even see the online status) - no jellyfin player app: -
Delfin is decent but seems.abandonned… 😟 - GS Connect works, but needs a tweak
and UI is not good on small screen - No lemmy apps - waydroid don’t have
internet by default, we need to run a command everytime we launch it to add a
route. - No good Youtube client (newpipe is bad for the moment and Pipeline just
doesn’t work OOB - no tutanota app (no arm build) # State of GNOME Shell -
Saving dialog in.text editor.is [http://editor.is] not good - Somewhat laggy
compared to Phosh (Not anymore since GNOME 48 🎉 ) - OSK is bad, it needs to be
replaceable easily - we could have multiple keyboard installed and switch
between them - No recent emoji view 😭️ - Since GNOME 48 it doesn’t even adapt
to the locale now… (I have AZERTY set in the setting but the keyboard is now
qwerty) - Quick setting should be smaller, android style round icon instead, to
fit more on small screen (same goes for Phosh) - We need a OLED theme for GNOME
shell mobile - Accent color doesn’t work in the quick settings (Gnome mobile
shell use gome 46 as of 21 feb 2025) (Fixed since GNOME 48! 🎉 ) - we need a way
to bring up the OSK like on Phosh (holding the botto bar for a sec for example,
maybe itcould be customizable too?) - no app icon in the overview of running
app, and sometime its hard to know what app is running, especially when havng
multiple instance of the same app - would be cool to be able to uninstall app
from the app grid (phosh got this in 0.45 iirc) - The power menu when holding
the power button just open the quick sretting menu, we need somethng like phosh
with a real menu to reboot/turn off the phone - Some apps don’t close correctly
and just crash, i will add them here when.I encounter them: - GNOME Solitaire,
after clicking on the topbar menus (Fixed in GNOME 48?) - auto rotate doesn’t
work (but it does on Phosh) - No pattern unlock # State of Phosh - what is wrong
with the emoji keyboard?? it’s bad - gestures are bad, they need to take the
same.gesture as gnome shell mobile!! - We NEED to press the unlock button after
typing our code (would be neat to have the code automatically unlock the phone
when we enter the same amount of characters as our passcode) - Haven’t used it
intensively, especially because of the bad gesture # State of apps - GNOME Mines
needs to be ported to libadwaita and better support smallscreen - timers in
gnome clock are bad (it’s just one beep and if the sound is off, it doesn’t
alert me) - alarms doesn’t turn off when clicking or swiping the notification…
we need to unlock the phone… and the buttons to turn off are way too small… -
gnome calculator bring up the keyboard, which is weird, and it goes on top of
the actual app keyboard (Doesn’t go on top anymore, but still shows up…) - gnome
software have bad UI when clicking on the size of an app to get the details #
The obvious but we know this already - Camera support is rudimental, needs
works, and I can’t wait.for it to become better! - No fingerprint sensors
support # Device specific : Redmi Note 9S - camera support (same as above) -
charging indicator doesn’t work and battery reporting is hit or miss (go up and
down) - No fingerprint sensors support - top speaker don’t work - no vibrations
# Questions if you have question about x or y app or any feature that you’d want
feel free to tell me in the comments ! :) or even If I missed things feel free
to correct me! p.s. This list has been made on the linux phone and I’m sorry for
the bad english or misspelling of words!
