Initial Plasma Mobile Builds for Mobian
September 10, 2023
Although it’s possible to run Plasma Mobile on Mobian now by installing packages on top of the Phosh build, I still want to eventually have actual Plasma Mobile builds of Mobian that work out of the box. After some work, it’s now possible to flash an image to a PinePhone Pro and get a working Plasma Mobile environment on Mobian, with things mostly work out of the box.
Overview #
At this stage:
- Prebuild images from me for the PinePhone Pro and Librem 5 is available here, please help me testing them
- Here is a merge request for adding initial Plasma Mobile support to upstream, help from tester and reviewer is welcome
- Basic features are working, see table below
Support status on PinePhone Pro #
This table will likely grow in future…
| Feature | Note |
|---|---|
| WiFi | Working |
| Bluetooth | Working |
| Screen Auto Rotation | Working |
| Phone Call / SMS | Working |
| LTE Modem | Working, might need to configure APN manually, or manually trigger auto detect. |
Roadmap #
- There is still much packaging work to be done for bringing Plasma Mobile applications to Mobile
- The default SDDM login theme (not the lock screen) doesn’t look good on small vertical screen, a custom theme should fix this
- Add support for more device (Librem5, PineTab, etc…)