KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway

While there has been much talk this year about KDE Plasma 6.0 on the desktop as it gears up for release at the end of February, there's been less talk about the Plasma Mobile work for having the KDE stack on smartphones. But it turns out some progress is quietly being made on KDE Plasma Mobile for bringing it aligned with the "6" platform...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-Mobile-6-Porting

[ezst036]

It looks great and probably a breeze to use, but there needs to be a focus on more device compatibility.

If the only single device this will ever work on is a Pinephone, but it won't work on anything from OnePlus, Samsung, Google, or Motorola, then isn't it kind of a platform without a platform?

I would go buy a brand new OnePlus Nord N300 right now, today, if I knew I could install Plasma 6 on it tomorrow. But unfortunately the realist in me says that won't work. So what's happening then?

Does Plasma 6 have an install program that is as streamlined and easy to use as the UBPorts installer?

[DarkCloud]

I think the real value would be in the embedded space and not necessarily the consumer space. So it would be nice if it supported Yocto

[Vistaus]

It looks great and probably a breeze to use

I see what you did there.

[CarlSchwan]

I think the real value would be in the embedded space and not necessarily the consumer space. So it would be nice if it supported Yocto

You will be happy to hear that Plasma Mobile like most of KDE is packaged for Yocto: https://invent.kde.org/packaging/?filter=yocto

At FOSDEM. we presented for the last few years Plasma Bigscreen or Mobile on a RISC-V device.

[SnipeX_]

It looks great and probably a breeze to use, but there needs to be a focus on more device compatibility.

If the only single device this will ever work on is a Pinephone, but it won't work on anything from OnePlus, Samsung, Google, or Motorola, then isn't it kind of a platform without a platform?

You should check out postmarketOS (Alpine Linux), Mobian (Debian) or Kupfer (Arch Linux ARM) for the OnePlus 6/6T, for example.

You can get a OnePlus 6/6T phone pretty cheaply today and it has pretty nice (but not perfect) Mainline linux kernel support!

This is the current status of the OP6/6T with some downstream patches: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/O...lus-enchilada)

[Toggleton]

If the only single device this will ever work on is a Pinephone, but it won't work on anything from OnePlus, Samsung, Google, or Motorola, then isn't it kind of a platform without a platform?

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices There are some Devices that have mainline support with that CPU https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Q...SDM845/SDM850) that is the best way to get a cheap device from ebay.
The big problem is that many Android devices never get a Mainline kernel but that is a flaw of Android.

[CTown]

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices There are some Devices that have mainline support with that CPU https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Q...SDM845/SDM850) that is the best way to get a cheap device from ebay.
The big problem is that many Android devices never get a Mainline kernel but that is a flaw of Android.

Anyone knows how accurate this wiki is?

According the wiki, the Xiaomi Poco F1 has working calls, the OnePlus 6(T) has partially working calls. GPS seems to be partially working for both but camera is broken on both phones. Almost there; that Poco especially is nearly feature complete.

[varikonniemi]

Hopefully this can be the version that births plasma on mobile. I tried plasma5 on pinephone but it was just so buggy with apps crashing all the time it was pretty unusable.

[Alexmitter]

Hopefully this can be the version that births plasma on mobile. I tried plasma5 on pinephone but it was just so buggy with apps crashing all the time it was pretty unusable.

Isn't that just the usual KDE quality? Sounds like it already matches the desktop version.