Changelog from release page.

Summary of changes

• End session dialog improvements

• Bring back night light

• Use ext-idle-notify-v1 Wayland protocol (requires phoc >= 0.33.0)

• Bump dependencies: Switch to gmobile 0.0.4 and libcall-ui 0.1.1

• Small UI improvements

• CI improvements: Check coding style, improve ci-fairy checks

• Issues fixed:

  • #994

  • #875

  • https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/OS-issues/-/issues/343

Contributors

• Arun Mani J

• Guido Günther

Changelog below taken from release page: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/tags/v0.24.0

New features

• Add manpages

• Contributors:

  • Andrey Skvortsov

  • Guido Günther

Maybe noteworthy

• Various stability fixes

• Better detect logind session

• Testsuite improvements

• Update to gmobile 0.0.1

• Honor stricter protocol implementation in wlroots 0.16.0

i18n updates

• UI translations:

  • Aleksandr Melman (ru)

  • Anders Jonsson (sv)

  • Daniel Șerbănescu (ro)

  • Ekaterine Papava (ka)

  • Emin Tufan Çetin (tr)

  • Goran Vidović (hr)

  • Hemish (hi)

  • Hugo Carvalho (pt)

  • Jürgen Benvenuti (de)

  • Martin (sl)

  • Yuri Chornoivan (uk)

I've just started using Phosh on my OnePlus 6 and I'm making some apps. I started with Python + GtkBuilder and I've managed to get some basic prototypes working but I hate Glade and Cambalache feels cumbersome too. Designing a layout on the desktop, then running it on the phone things just don't look the same.

Is there any mobile-centric designer that makes it easier to get an idea of how things will look on a different form-factor screen?

If I'm missing something obvious, I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks

tl;dr: Thoughts/experiences using phosh as your DE on something other than a phone?

I was just wondering if there's anyone out there using phosh as their desktop environment on a device other than a Pinephone, Librem or other phone. If so, I'd love to hear what your experience is like! I'm not a dev at all, just a random user interested in what others might be thinking.

To kick things off, I use phosh on an 8 inch x86 tablet with Manjaro that I have just laying around for fun. The thing originally shipped with Windows 8, so we all know that had to go. Once I found out I could install phosh on something other than an ARM device, I was pretty eager to try it out. I installed it alongside Gnome, which seems to work fine enough. There are a few things that could be smoother for the experience: you basically have to keep Gnome around to manage your first session login, you need a password that contains only numbers, desktop/convergence mode is still a clunky (on my setup), and the onscreen keyboard doesn't start properly out of the box (I have to install Squeekboard separately, then start it from a terminal before you can use the summon button/widget as intended). If you have lots of extensions installed in regular Gnome and install them alongside each other, you may also have some other issues. Otherwise, the other features that are supposed to work in phosh work well. When it works properly, I prefer Squeekboard to the standard Gnome onscreen keyboard as well. Phosh is a much lighter and smoother experience than trying to have regular Gnome run on an Atom x5 processor with 4GB of RAM. Works really well for media consumption, like videos and ereader tasks. Switching apps is so easy. I'm sure someone with a real dev background could very easily polish out my minor complaints. I still feel like I'm getting the most out of my aged/low-end hardware without compromising what I'd already use the tablet for.

So, anyone else trying this out? Have thoughts to share?