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KDE Plasma Mobile — The Dev Log: April 2024 - June 2025 (plasma-mobile.org)

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This blog post is already quite long, so it will omit changes merged for Plasma 6.5 (releasing in October, to be announced in a future post).

With the Plasma 6.2 release, we moved Plasma Dialer and Spacebar to the Plasma release cycle, allowing us to have consistent releases of the two apps. This completes our year long move to having all Plasma Mobile related projects released as part of wider KDE releases, streamlining the work for distributions and taking a load off us on having to maintain a separate release cycle!

In other news, a Fedora spin for Plasma Mobile was released! It will only be targeting devices that can currently boot Fedora (i.e. not ARM phones), but is very exciting nonetheless!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (30 children)

While I love the idea, I just don't see this moving forward unless any of these projects can focus on splitting up these types of projects into a solid base, driver layer, and then UI layer. Instead they are all spending a ton of engineering resources building something from scratch.

So many projects have similarly started the same way and failed instead of working towards a base that replaces AOSP first, then spinning their own UI on top. The big device manufacturers figured out a decade ago this is the right way to go, and these small projects buck that and fail instead of just focusing on the thing they ultimately intend to focus on.

Get a good base that is removed from Google, THEN do this project.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I REALLY want to try PlaMo, but I wish I could use Mobile Linux on my phone. I can't, but oh if I could, or if I could run PlaMo on Android, it would've been great. I once even "riced" my phone to look like Plasma Mobile.

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