[chriswarbo]

Whilst I understand the need to make some bespoke UI components, I hope they don't get too much not-invented-here syndrome.

OpenMoko went down that route: the Freerunner shipped with a bespoke GTK UI (with support from Gnome; I seem to remember them being at GUADEC) but they'd already deprecated it in favour of a bespoke EFL UI. This meant a huge amount of churn, resulting in multiple half-finished projects, rather than a single reasonably-decent UI.

For the last 10 years my Freerunner has been running on 'qtmoko', which is just Debian with the QtMobile UI (which AFAIK was a Trolltech demo).

These days there are even more FOSS mobile UIs floating around (Maemo, Meego, Plasma, Unity, FirefoxOS, Android, QtMobile, etc.) so hopefully Librem will just pick a stable OS (Debian?); pick one of these UIs, or interoperable components from a few; add on their Matrix messenger thingy, and ship.