Marco Allegretti
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Shift
A fork of KDE Plasma Mobile that adds a desktop-class convergence mode.
Plasma Mobile is a phone shell. It doesn't try to be anything else. Shift picks up where it leaves off: when you connect a monitor, keyboard, or mouse, the same device should feel like a desktop. No second OS, no separate session — one shell that adapts.
What's different from upstream
The upstream plasma-mobile repo provides the phone experience: homescreens,
a swipe-based navigation panel, an action drawer, and a status bar. All of
that still works. Shift adds a convergence mode layer on top — toggled
via plasmamobilerc — that swaps in desktop-oriented behaviour without
replacing the phone UI underneath.
Key changes so far:
- Unified dock replacing the navigation panel in convergence mode, with running-app indicators, favourites, context menus, and hover tooltips.
- App drawer opening as a centered popup instead of a full-screen swipe.
- Window management — edge tiling, screen-edge maximize, close buttons, task context menus, Overview integration.
- Status bar gains a system tray, date display, and hover highlights.
- Screen space reservation for the dock via a layer-shell exclusive zone, so maximized windows don't overlap it.
- Desktop niceties — right-click wallpaper settings, minimize-all on home press, clickable page indicators, action drawer toggle on click.
- Thumbnail previews on dock icon hover via PipeWire screencasting.
- Pin to dock — right-click a running app to pin it to favourites; pinned apps get a "Remove from Dock" action.
Upstream base
Forked from plasma-mobile at KDE's Plasma 6 branch. Upstream commits
(translations, silent fixes) are preserved in the early history.