[dmix]

Interesting, they are building their own mobile compositor based on wlroots: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phoc

This is the right way to do an open source phone by adopting existing modern desktop Linux tech. Instead of going your own Androidy path like Sailfish/Jolla is doing.

[alexkavon]

Yeah worst case scenario Gnome will be better off with some adaptive UI work.

[wmf]

Maemo was originally based on desktop XOrg/Gtk/GNOME tech but with no real phones providing drivers for that stack I guess Sailfish felt like they had no choice but to adopt Android drivers.

[Jach]

Yeah. Though I also wish someone would tackle this from a hardware perspective too. I'm looking forward to being able to run various linux programs on a real linux phone, but many are never going to be touch-screen friendly let alone mobile-layout friendly. A phone with a little pointer nub and left-click/right-click buttons would be sweet to me...

[ocdtrekkie]

I mean, I think if you can run real Linux programs, and a lot of your "daily use" stuff works with touch, you can connect a Bluetooth mouse/keyboard combo when you need it. (I already keep one in my car.) And being Linux, you can probably script a bunch of stuff (when using your keyboard) to "just work" when you're not using your keyboard.

The important part is you won't need to special case what you can run on a phone versus what you can run on a desktop. A lot of stupid/simple Windows apps I wish I could run on my phone. But even if you are on Windows Phone you could only run apps meant for it.