Wanted to add a few more things I’ve noticed while playing on the Phosh image. I’ll edit this with any others I find to avoid flooding the thread.
Battery icon always shows as full-not charging or full-charging.
Not sure if this is related, but power sources don’t always appear to be recognized. Currently, the battery is at 93%. I plugged it in to 2 different power cables (OTG & barrel) to give better info on the icon, but neither cable plugged in currently indicates the power source is connecting. Settings > Power states Discharging.
Also, @Strit, there’s a few people in the pine chat that are asking to test an img for the new panel with plasma-mobile.
Boots in Portrait mode even device is attached to the keyboard and is in landscape mode. Orientation remains after system start. Of course orientation change is unlocked
Selecting the right orientation like landscape works. But all is displayed head down
But that’s because of all the mobile and small screen optimazations that go into Phosh, Plasma Mobile and Lomiri.
The idea behind the PineTab and PinePhone is to have Mobile touch devices.
Which is to be achieved by a GUI designed for it.
Sure we can make a regular KDE Plasma image for the PineTab, but it won’t be very usable without the keyboard. And with a Tablet, you can’t assume that people will have a keyboard for it.
If you want regular Plasma, you should by a Pinebook. That uses the same hardware as the tablet, except it’s not a touch screen, its screen is a little bigger and it has a keyboard and touchpad built in.
I also have a Pinebook Pro with manjaro and am very satisfied with it. Also have donated for.
What was a clear … little shock … for me is the daily reality how less mature phosh is on the pine devices, especially the tablet. Not even the rotation or orientation works correct. I will NOT critisize the work of the devs, but I fear that the decision of Linux developers to develop concurrently 3 mobile desktops parallel for the phones and other mobile devices was no good idea. Instead of bundling the power we have here three not even half mature systems…
I hope that - despite of all issues today - we can get a stable and usable system in a foreseeable time on our pine mobile devices.
This img feels like it’s getting better and better every morning. Manual rotation appears to be working now (if it did before I guess I didn’t notice) but landscape mode is upside down (in relation to the Tab being docked with the keyboard.)
it is painfully simple, and took me a few days to figure it out, too.
tap the top bar with the time, battery, and wifi icons. on the pull down, do a long press on the rotation lock on/off button. that will switch it over to manual rotation. then single, short presses will alternate it between portrait and landscape.
I was going to wait until the next release to test again, but I saw your post. Thank you for working on this image. I downloaded your updated image, and it started up fine. I have Danct12’s Arch ARM on the emmc of the Pinetab, so my comments are a comparison between the two. The Manjaro image displays with everything scaled larger, and there isn’t the issue of a small on screen keyboard. I haven’t figured out the rotation issue, so I am stuck in portrait. The only other issue is the non-working audio. I am still trying to figure out how to remove icons/programs (i.e. Chess, Chats). Overall, though, this image has a nice polished look and functions well.
