Shift

Convergence mode for Plasma Mobile. One shell that works as a phone and adapts to a desktop when you connect a monitor, keyboard, or mouse.

Shift is a fork of plasma-mobile. The upstream phone UI is untouched; convergence adds a layer on top.

What convergence mode changes

• Navigation panel replaced by a dock with running-app indicators, favourites, context menus, and hover tooltips
• App drawer opens as a floating popup above the dock
• Window management: edge tiling, edge maximize, close buttons, task context menus, Overview integration
• Status bar gains a system tray, date display, and hover highlights
• Screen space reserved for the dock via layer-shell exclusive zone
• Desktop niceties: right-click wallpaper settings, minimize-all on home press, clickable page indicators

Locations

• components/mobileshell - private shell component library
• containments - shell panels (homescreens, status bar, task panel)
• envmanager - convergence mode environment manager (kwinrc, etc.)
• kwin/scripts - KWin scripts for convergence window behaviour
• kcms - settings modules
• look-and-feel - Plasma look-and-feel packages
• shell - Plasma shell package
• quicksettings - quick settings for the action drawer

Building

cmake -B build
cmake --build build
cmake --install build

Upstream

See pm_README.md for the original Plasma Mobile README.