No ability to cancel out of Applications in Both KDE Plasma AND Mobian

[The3DmaN]

I got my KDE Plasma edition pine phone in early February. Took me a day or two to open things up...

When I did I noticed I could not "x" out of applications, in order to exit from an application I had to either restart or shut down the phone.


(Just for the record: I alerted Pine to this issue at the support e-mail with photos of the original OS not working properly on February 5th, got an e-mail reply ( automated?) that if I needed to open a ticket...which I did last night...I was trying to avoid making a deal about something that I thought should be able to be fixed with an OS flash)  

So I figured it was a bad OS flash, and downloaded the jump drive from the link kindly provided by Pine at the wiki page...


I flashed the phone with the latest release of KDE plasma Mobile...some things seemed "OK", The "x" at the bottom of the phone appeared, and my sim card worked ( yay) and the only problem was sending SMS that did not work. There were some issues...some lags some screen flicker as well at times, then a few days later while plugged in to charge the phone crashed....it would not start back up again...Wifi toggle switch was in the "off" position, mobile data was on...

Well that was enough of KDE Plasma for me , so I decided to flash the Feb 7th build of Mobian to the phone. Guess what, SAME ISSUE as originally came with the factory KDE Plasma! I could only open applications, not close them...very, very weird. No updates helped with this issue

any suggestions? I cant be sure if it's a hardware ( eMMC ?) or software issue...

Some UI's (Phosh) have swipe to close, but your screenshots look like Plasma Mobile which from my testing is still pretty buggy. With that said, all the distros and UI's for the phone are still largely a work in progress. Plasma Mobile specifically still has some bugs to work out, and is really not ready for daily consumer use. Probably the closest UI ready for daily use is Phosh, but even that has some bugs. SMS (not MMS) works on most but not all distros, and the wifi and mobile data can be glitchy depending on the distro as well. At this point the PinePhone was really released for developers who are trying to get software running on mobile as well as the devs that are trying to work out all the bugs in the distro, UI, modem, etc.  For early adopters, patience is the key. The OS will get there eventually, but for now try out different distros and UI's to see what works best for you.