Phosh 0.43, a screen shell for mobile devices based on GNOME technology and GTK library, has been released. Originally developed by Purism as an analogue of Gnome Shell for the Librem 5 smartphone, Phosh has become one of the unofficial GNOME projects and is now used in various platforms such as Postmarketos, Mobian, Droidian, firmware for Pine64 devices, and Fedora editors for smartphones. Phosh utilizes the composite server phoc, which works on top of Wayland, and features its own screen keyboard. The projects are distributed under the GPL V3+ license.
In the new release:
- Improved fast settings panel, reducing the indentation between buttons and implementing the display of status pages under the settings.
- Added a new fast setting for managing time using the Tomato method.
- Added support for accent colors used to highlight active elements.
- Improved notification output system.
- Included animation for hiding applications in the system tray.
- Improved indication of events related to notifications.
- Added settings to disable authentication for unlocking the screen.
- Ensured the preservation of created screenshots in a separate catalog.
- Added support for filling cursor signs to the PHOC composite manager.
- In the screen keyboard squeekboard, added settings to fill the entire free space in the panel, implement the possibility of assigning SHIFT modifier buttons, add SHIFT buttons to the terminal layout, and include new Emoji from Unicode 16.0 specifications.
- In the Phosh-Mobile-Settings configurator, users can now indicate horizontal and vertical size when using a virtual keyboard.
- Dependencies updated: Wlroots 0.17.4, Gnome 47, Calls 47.0, Feedbackd 0.5.0, FeedBackd-Device-Themes 0.4.0, Callaudiod 0.1.10, Wys 0.1.12, and MMSD-TNG 2.6.2.
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