On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 01:35:36AM -0000, Scott Anecito via devel wrote: > What is the driver for choosing Phosh over GNOME Shell?
There's no choosing something over something else. This isn't a Fedora Mobility Edition, but rather a first look at a Phosh based setup. Phosh has been around a long while, the remix that the mobility sig makes currently uses it, and it seems to be making progress all the time. The plasma mobile desktop has also been around a while, but I am not sure if it's all packaged up yet or how it fits together. The kde sig has been working on this. If they reach a point where things are working, they can submit a plasma-mobile change. If down the road we think this area should be covered by a edition, then we would need to closely decide what would meet our users needs. > Let me first say the amount of work put in by both Purism and the GNOME > community into Phosh and other mobile components like libhandy has been > critical to Linux mobile space. While mobile friendly GNOME Shell > improvements only recently started and is not currently as feature rich as > Phosh, the recent focus on it by the GNOME community has lead to some fast > and impressive development as seen on the GNOME blog: > https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022/09/09/gnome-shell-on-mobile-an-update/ > > Most of the changes in the blog look to be targeting merging upstream in time > for 44's release which I believe would be in Fedora 38. Even then though > GNOME Shell wouldn't be at feature parity with Phosh. However, the main > argument long term for having a mobile image that uses GNOME Shell over Phosh > is more resourcing due to mutual benefits on mobile and desktop with things > like the new gesture API referenced in the blog. gnome-shell's mobility changes look really interesting and I would encourage folks interested in that to work on a gnome mobility spin? > If feature set is the driver, I understand, but as a Librem5 owner and > someone with all their boxes imaged with Fedora I'd be curious if there would > be any plans to eventually switch to GNOME Shell once feature parity happens. I don't know of any plans right now, but I think it's likely to happen if things are merged and are in a workable state. :) kevin
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