03-24-2020, 03:23 PM
Hey all! I've been messing with the Debian Phosh image on my Pine for the past few weeks or so and am amazed at the progress made so far by you all in such a short period of time! I'm no good at coding, personally, so I don't think I'll be much help in that regard, but I figured I could mention a few things I've encountered that I haven't seen mentioned here yet.
For one, while I would love to see Firefox (or possibly Chromium? Privacy concerns abound to be sure but it's still a good browser) tweaked to fit on the screen and packaged for this device in the future, in the meantime I found a browser in the repositories called Falkon that seems to scale more reliably for the Pine's screen than either of those two, and find the experience using it to be fairly pleasant. Changing the settings to anything other than the defaults can be a bit of a pain though, since the settings screen doesn't fit right on either orientation of the screen. However, for any mobile browser going forward, I think one necessary tweak would be to try and get it to demand the mobile version of most websites, as navigation can be an issue otherwise on some desktop sites.
Now, for a few little things that I'm not sure have been reported as bugs, but here goes. The first thing is that the sound is really quiet, and the input moreso, to the point that I'm having trouble determining if there is something wrong with my microphone or if this is just a bug in the software at the moment. Also, is there any fix for the fact that the desktop wallpaper seems to go a bit haywire every time the screen rotates? And is there some way to sort of "pan" around windows that don't fully fit into the phone screen that I'm not aware of so I can access the entirety of settings menus on applications not strictly designed to be used within Phosh? Apologies if these have all been answered already, I didn't see an answer anywhere though.
Lastly though, I really just wanted to reiterate, thanks so much for taking the time to work on this, I am having so much fun just faffing about with my little phone here, and every day brings new surprises from you all.
For one, while I would love to see Firefox (or possibly Chromium? Privacy concerns abound to be sure but it's still a good browser) tweaked to fit on the screen and packaged for this device in the future, in the meantime I found a browser in the repositories called Falkon that seems to scale more reliably for the Pine's screen than either of those two, and find the experience using it to be fairly pleasant. Changing the settings to anything other than the defaults can be a bit of a pain though, since the settings screen doesn't fit right on either orientation of the screen. However, for any mobile browser going forward, I think one necessary tweak would be to try and get it to demand the mobile version of most websites, as navigation can be an issue otherwise on some desktop sites.
Now, for a few little things that I'm not sure have been reported as bugs, but here goes. The first thing is that the sound is really quiet, and the input moreso, to the point that I'm having trouble determining if there is something wrong with my microphone or if this is just a bug in the software at the moment. Also, is there any fix for the fact that the desktop wallpaper seems to go a bit haywire every time the screen rotates? And is there some way to sort of "pan" around windows that don't fully fit into the phone screen that I'm not aware of so I can access the entirety of settings menus on applications not strictly designed to be used within Phosh? Apologies if these have all been answered already, I didn't see an answer anywhere though.
Lastly though, I really just wanted to reiterate, thanks so much for taking the time to work on this, I am having so much fun just faffing about with my little phone here, and every day brings new surprises from you all.
