User-Interfaces
At the moment Weston is the default UI for postmarketOS. It is simple and helps us to keep researching and developing the base of pmOS but in the future we will also support other more sophisticated and fancy User Interfaces.
Here is a list showing examples and the on-going work on this topic.
User Interfaces
Weston
Project page: https://github.com/wayland-project/weston
Default minimal interface based on XWayland. It allows developers to do "simple" things like running firefox and opening a terminal, plus testing the touchscreen and other peripherals.
Photos:
Plasma Mobile
Project page: https://plasma-mobile.org/
Based on KDE.
Work in Progress.
For more information, see Plasma Mobile and issues #161, #378.
Hildon
Hildon is an application framework originally developed for mobile devices (PDAs, mobile phones, etc.) running the Linux operating system as well as the Symbian operating system. It was developed by Nokia for the Maemo operating system and is now a part of GNOME. It focuses on providing a finger-friendly interface. It is primarily a set of GTK+ extensions that provide mobile-device–oriented functionality, but also provides a desktop environment that includes a task navigator for opening and switching between programs, a control panel for user settings, and status bar, task bar and home applets. It is standard on the Maemo platform used by the Nokia Internet Tablets and the Nokia N900 smartphone.
Hildon is based on GTK2 and there is a work in progress port to GTK3.
For more information, see Hildon and PR #461.
Others
See issue #62 for more information on other UIs that could be ported to postmarketOS. Some of these are:
- ubports (Fork of the discontinued Ubuntu Phone project)
- mer/SailfishOS related:
- lipstick (relevant comment)
- glacier (relevant comment)
- sway
- Photo
How to choose a different UI
You have to configure pmbootstrap
before generating the system image either by pmbootstrap init
or pmbootstrap config
:
$ ./pmbootstrap init [11:23:07] Target device (either an existing one, or a new one for porting). [11:23:07] Available (17): asus-grouper, htc-ace, htc-bravo, lg-d855, lg-hammerhead, lg-mako, motorola-titan, mozilla-flame, nokia-rx51, qemu-aarch64, qemu-amd64, qemu-vexpress, samsung-i9070, samsung-i9100, samsung-maguro, samsung-n7100, sony-amami [11:23:07] Device [motorola-titan]: [11:23:08] Available user interfaces (1): weston, none [11:23:08] User interface [weston]:
$ ./pmbootstrap config ui weston