plasma-arch

Attempt to make Plasma Mobile available on the Arch Linux base.

Introduction

Plasma Mobile offer a Free (as in Freedom and beer), user-friendly, privacy-enabling and customizable platform for mobile devices. Plasma Mobile is Free software and developed in an open process. Plasma Mobile is currently under development, a prototype running on a smartphone and providing basic functionality is available.

Currently KUbuntu based reference images are available which is flashable on LG Nexus 5 and some other images. Also there is amd64 LiveCD available.

This project in perticular attempts to have Arch Linux based Plasma Mobile images.

Planning

Plan of action to provide Arch Linux based images for Plasma mobile

Milestone 1

• Remaster Arch Linux ISO and have minimum packages required for kwin_wayland/plasma-workspace
• Organize required packages for the plasma-mobile ( see #1 )
• Write PKGBUILDs for the missing packages
• Provide Plasma mobile images based on the amd64/x86_64 which allows to test plasma-mobile

Milestone 2

• Have Arch Linux ARM installed on the Nexus 5
• Package Plasma Mobile packages for armv7
• Remaster alarm image to have Plasma Mobile components installed
• Have it tested on other devices

Current status

Currently archiso tool is used to create remastered Arch Linux x86_64 image. This is modified releng profile of ArchISO.

• Initial scripts for remastering ISO based on archiso tool
• Some of core packages packaged and available on : http://arch.pangea.pub/plasma-mobile/ (Only 64 bit packages are available)

Add in pacman.conf

[plasma-mobile]
SigLevel = Optional
Server = http://arch.pangea.pub/plasma-mobile/$arch

Creating ISO

On non-arch hosts

docker run --rm=true --privileged=true -v `pwd`:/tmp/working \
     -v /var/cache/pacman:/var/cache/pacman \
     base/archlinux /tmp/working/ci_setup.sh

On arch hosts

git clone https://github.com/bhush9/plasma-arch.git
cd plasma-arch
sudo build.sh -v

Co-installing with Plasma packages

This method is unsupported since, some stuffs are not working nicely with plasma-desktop and have side effects on plasma-desktop like notifications applet from plasma-mobile is loaded in the desktop session and much more.

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S qt5-wayland
sudo pacman -S plasma-phone-components-git plasma-mobile-git \
               kwinwrapper-git plasma-maliit-framework-git \
               plasma-maliit-plugins-git plasma-settings-git

Once installed, switch to tty2 and run kwinwrapper

Adding package in ISO

If you want to add new packages in ISO just add its package name in packages.both file.

Custom packages that are not available in repository

Open a issue if you want new application to be packaged in [plasma-mobile] repository