Phosh Insights

Components

phosh
phoc - wayland compositor
squeekboard - keyboard
phosh.session
feedbackd

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Foundation Concepts

How does a compositor work?

How does display server work?

How does GNOME and GTK+ ecosystem work?

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The image file may be corrupted
The server hosting the image is unavailable
The image path is incorrect
The image format is not supported

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Building locally

Packages to install if you are not in a gnome wayland environment (distro - arch + kde wayland) (install using pacman -Ss)

gnome-shell gnome-settings-daemon mutter gnome-desktop wlroots evince evince-lib-docs evolution-data-server libadwaita gnome-control-center

Packages found in AUR (install using any AUR provider like paru)

callaudiod feedbackd-git

While logging in select GNOME Wayland in whatever Display Manager you use to start the GNOME session good enough to run phosh properly. For SDDM the option is there in the bottom left.

GNOME Development

https://developer.gnome.org/
https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/tutorials/beginners.html
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-create-gui-in-c-programming-using-gtk-toolkit/
GTK dev leverages xml files to create UI in runtime
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Glade to develop UIs like QtCreator
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libhandy