# Phosh Celebrating Another Year of Mobile Innovation > [! note]- > The content of this page is generated by audio/video transcription and text transformation from the content and links of this source. Source: [https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6323-phosh-yet-another-year-around-the-sun-/](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6323-phosh-yet-another-year-around-the-sun-/) <video src="https://video.fosdem.org/2025/h2214/fosdem-2025-6323-phosh-yet-another-year-around-the-sun-.av1.webm" controls></video> ## Summary & Highlights: **Introduction to Phosh** Phosh is a graphical shell designed for mobile devices, utilizing GNOME technologies. It is touch-friendly, based on Wayland, and written in GTK. Phosh aims to enhance the Linux mobile ecosystem by integrating mobile-specific components into relevant technologies. Originally developed for Purism's Librem 5, it now supports a variety of devices and distributions. **Recent Developments** Over the past year, Phosh has seen 13 stable releases, including new lockscreen and quick settings widgets, visual enhancements, and a shift from monthly to six-week release cycles. These updates aim to improve user experience and system performance, making Phosh more adaptable for various mobile devices. **Technical Innovations** Phosh's ecosystem includes components like Phoc (a Wayland compositor), Squeekboard (an on-screen keyboard), and FeedbackD (a daemon for haptic feedback). The project also introduced support for cell broadcast, accent colors, and adaptive file choosers, enhancing device functionality and user interaction. **Community and Future Directions** Phosh encourages community involvement through code contributions, issue reporting, and testing. Future plans include runtime management, push notifications, and monetization options to support developers. The project remains committed to advancing the Linux mobile landscape and fostering open-source collaboration. ## Importance for an eco-social transformation Phosh contributes to eco-social transformation by promoting open-source development and enhancing the Linux mobile ecosystem. It addresses sustainable and ethical issues by providing an alternative to proprietary mobile operating systems, encouraging transparency and user control. Eco-social designers can leverage Phosh's open design principles to create inclusive and adaptable mobile interfaces. Challenges include maintaining compatibility with diverse hardware and fostering community engagement to drive further innovation. ## Slides: | | | | --- | --- | | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_001.jpg\|300]] | The introduction slide presents the session 'Phosh: Yet another year around the sun!' by Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras, taking place on February 1, 2025. It sets the stage for a discussion on the progress and achievements of the Phosh project over the past year. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_002.jpg\|300]] | Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras introduces himself as a developer involved with Linux-first phones since 2020. He is a Mobian member, Debian Maintainer, and contributes to the Phosh and GNOME ecosystems, highlighting his commitment to free software development. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_003.jpg\|300]] | This slide provides an overview of Phosh, a graphical shell for mobile devices. It emphasizes its touch-friendly design, use of Wayland and GTK, and reliance on GNOME technologies. Phoc, the Wayland compositor based on wlroots, is also introduced. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_004.jpg\|300]] | Building on the previous slide, it explains Phosh's origins with Purism's Librem 5 and its goal to advance the Linux mobile ecosystem. By contributing mobile-specific improvements to various components, Phosh aims to enhance the functionality of phones running mainline kernels. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_005.jpg\|300]] | The slide showcases Phosh's user interface, highlighting recent visual improvements. It illustrates the shell's adaptability for different devices and emphasizes user-friendly features like customizable backgrounds and application management. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_006.jpg\|300]] | This slide outlines the technological stack that Phosh builds upon, referencing its foundation on GNOME components and the Linux kernel. It underscores the collaborative nature of the project, leveraging existing technologies to enhance mobile functionality. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_007.jpg\|300]] | The slide introduces key components of the Phosh ecosystem, including Phoc, Squeekboard, FeedbackD, and Phosh Mobile Settings. These elements collectively enhance the user experience on mobile devices by providing essential functionalities and customization options. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_008.jpg\|300]] | Expanding on the ecosystem, this slide introduces lesser-known components like Phosh Tour and Phog. It highlights the project's breadth, encompassing various tools and libraries that contribute to Phosh's comprehensive mobile solution. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_009.jpg\|300]] | The slide offers a statistical overview of Phosh's development, noting its initial release in 2018 and subsequent 78 stable releases. It highlights the project's global reach with translations in 49 locales, reflecting its widespread adoption. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_010.jpg\|300]] | Building on the previous slide, it details recent changes in Phosh's release schedule and introduces new features like lockscreen widgets and quick settings. These updates enhance user interaction and system aesthetics. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_011.jpg\|300]] | This slide highlights quick settings features, including the Caffeine plugin, which prevents the phone from entering suspend mode. It emphasizes user-requested functionalities that improve device usability and convenience. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_012.jpg\|300]] | Continuing from the previous slide, it introduces Wi-Fi management enhancements within quick settings. These improvements streamline network connectivity and offer a more intuitive user experience. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_013.jpg\|300]] | This slide adds to the quick settings discussion by introducing a hotspot toggle. It highlights Phosh's commitment to providing versatile connectivity options for mobile users. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_014.jpg\|300]] | The slide showcases additional quick settings options, including dark mode, night light, and mobile data toggles. These features enhance user control over device settings and improve overall usability. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_015.jpg\|300]] | Building on the previous slide, it emphasizes Phosh's customization capabilities, allowing users to configure quick settings to their preferences. This flexibility is integral to Phosh's user-centric design philosophy. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_016.jpg\|300]] | This slide introduces lockscreen enhancements, focusing on user interaction improvements. It highlights Phosh's efforts to create a seamless and secure user experience on mobile devices. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_017.jpg\|300]] | The slide discusses the launcher entry protocol for the lockscreen, enabling users to access specific applications directly. This feature enhances convenience and accessibility for frequent tasks. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_018.jpg\|300]] | Polishing efforts are highlighted, showcasing visual improvements across the Phosh interface. These refinements contribute to a more aesthetically pleasing and cohesive user experience. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_019.jpg\|300]] | The slide introduces cell broadcast support, a significant addition to Phosh's communication capabilities. It acknowledges the contributions of NLnet in supporting this feature, which enhances emergency alert functionality. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_020.jpg\|300]] | Continuing from the previous slide, it reiterates the importance of cell broadcast support and details ongoing work to integrate historical data in Chatty. This feature is crucial for comprehensive communication solutions. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_021.jpg\|300]] | This slide discusses miscellaneous improvements, including desktop backgrounds, accent color support, and notification categories. These enhancements contribute to a more personalized and intuitive user interface. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_022.jpg\|300]] | The slide focuses on captive portal detection, a feature that improves network connectivity by automatically opening browsers for login. This functionality simplifies user interactions with public Wi-Fi networks. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_023.jpg\|300]] | Squeekboard improvements are highlighted, including better sizing and support for Unicode 16 emojis. These updates enhance the keyboard's usability and compatibility with various applications. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_024.jpg\|300]] | This slide discusses the OSK-stub's configurability, including shortcuts and word completion. These features improve typing efficiency and user experience on touch devices. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_025.jpg\|300]] | FeedbackD enhancements are introduced, including RGB color support and hardware patterns for Qualcomm devices. These updates improve haptic feedback and visual notifications. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_026.jpg\|300]] | Continuing from the previous slide, it emphasizes FeedbackD's role in providing a haptic interface for games and other applications, enhancing interactive experiences. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_027.jpg\|300]] | The slide introduces Phosh Mobile Settings, emphasizing its role in providing comprehensive configuration options for users. This tool is central to Phosh's customization capabilities. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_028.jpg\|300]] | Gmobile support is discussed, including notch support and wakeup key configurations. These features enhance compatibility with modern device designs and improve user interactions. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_029.jpg\|300]] | The slide focuses on notch support, a feature that optimizes Phosh's interface for devices with screen cutouts. This adaptation ensures a seamless and functional user experience. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_030.jpg\|300]] | Community involvement is encouraged, with opportunities for code contributions, issue reporting, and testing. This slide emphasizes the collaborative nature of Phosh's development process. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_031.jpg\|300]] | The slide highlights the ease of developing Phosh, noting the absence of large SDK downloads, developer accounts, and virtual machines. This accessibility fosters broader participation in the project. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_032.jpg\|300]] | Building on the previous slide, it discusses the use of familiar tools and frameworks in Phosh development. This approach reduces barriers to entry and encourages contributions from diverse backgrounds. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_033.jpg\|300]] | The slide introduces libphosh and phrog, highlighting their role in extending Phosh's functionality through plugins. These components are integral to Phosh's modular and adaptable design. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_034.jpg\|300]] | Continuing from the previous slide, it discusses language bindings and documentation for libphosh, emphasizing the project's commitment to accessibility and developer support. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_035.jpg\|300]] | The slide introduces running Phosh nested within existing systems, a feature that facilitates development and testing. This capability simplifies the process of contributing to Phosh. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_036.jpg\|300]] | Testing the latest Phosh versions is discussed, with details on setting up nightly repositories. This slide encourages users to engage with cutting-edge developments and provide feedback. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_037.jpg\|300]] | Future plans for Phosh are outlined, including runtime management, push notifications, and app store monetization. These initiatives aim to enhance Phosh's functionality and support its developer community. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_038.jpg\|300]] | The slide marks the session's conclusion, expressing gratitude to participants and inviting further engagement with the Phosh project. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_039.jpg\|300]] | Continuing from the previous slide, it opens the floor for questions, encouraging audience interaction and feedback. | ![[FOSDEM 2025/assets/phosh-Yet-another-year-around-the-sun/preview_040.jpg\|300]] | Contact information for the Phosh project is provided, including links to the homepage, donation platforms, and communication channels. This slide invites continued involvement and support. ## Links [Slides](https://fosdem.org/2025/events/attachments/fosdem-2025-6323-phosh-yet-another-year-around-the-sun-/slides/238304/talk_Ag7SI8e.pdf) [Homepage](https://phosh.mobi) [Code @ GNOME gitlab](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh) [Video recording (AV1/WebM) - 71.1 MB](https://video.fosdem.org/2025/h2214/fosdem-2025-6323-phosh-yet-another-year-around-the-sun-.av1.webm) [Video recording (MP4) - 509.2 MB](https://video.fosdem.org/2025/h2214/fosdem-2025-6323-phosh-yet-another-year-around-the-sun-.av1.mp4)