Notes from our community meeting, topics slightly reordered for readability.

Events

• Chemnitzer Linuxtage Phosh.mobi booth preparations

• FroSCOn 2026

  • Will we have a dev room this year?
  • Will we have a booth? Maybe together / next to postmarketOS ?
  • will we have video this year?

• Phosh Contributors Meeting

  https://ev.phosh.mobi/pcm/pcm-2026/

• TH Bingen Tutorial Master Thesis

  • Rust + GTK/libadwatia Tutorial evaluation
  • Take the tutorial on 2025-04-18/19, ~1h

App translations

What are public, free software sites to translate apps?

Sites to translate apps

• zanata
• weblate
• For GNOME and affiliated projects: l10n.gnome.org, Upside is consistency of translations. Recently gained capabilities to push to gitlab/github directly.

Web Browsers

• Running mobile-config-firefox on desktop?

  It’s possible but needs some fixes, upstream is on it to fix this.

• Alternative browsers:

  • https://apps.kde.org/angelfish/
  • https://github.com/catacombing/kumo

• FLX1/FLX1s: see Firefox oom’ing. Also issue on Linux mainline?

  Doesn’t seem so, people use lots of tabs. Problem might be older FF on FLX*?

• Testing firefox-mobile-config

  • https://docs.postmarketos.org/mobile-config-firefox/main/installation.html
  • On Debian: /usr/share/firefox-esr/

Cell Broadcasts

• Phosh: Large CBMs are shown too low on the screen

  (e.g. il has arabic, cyrillic and hebrew in one message, but message content was reported to show otherwise correctly)

• To fix we can reproduce via python-dbusmock

  • https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/blob/main/tests/integration/test_dbus.py#L186
  • https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/devrtz/cellbroadcastd/-/blob/main/tests/mock-mm-cbm.py?ref_type=heads

• FLX1/FLX1s: No cellbroadcasts received

  Either ofono2mm doesn’t forward them or ofono doesn’t even see them.

• Linux Mainline phones: Positive reports of received cell broadcasts on Debian Forky (for non QCom devices). Stable ModemManager release to support QCom phones still pending but 1.2.95 release candidate works well.

Misc

• GSettings: Ramblings and praise about the keyfile backend ~/.config/glib-2.0/settings/

• Phosh 0.54.0 freeze coming up in three days

  (Note: I got that slightly wrong, there’s a bit more time: 2026-03-25)

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