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Re:The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone by moosingin3space on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:37AM (#15090415)
Their UI looks like it's based on Gnome -- I wonder if they wrote some extensions to make Gnome more phone-friendly.

IMO great idea to use Matrix as the communication layer -- especially when double-ratchet is stable, it'll be able to provide the good UX of things like Signal on Android, iMessage, Google Duo, and FaceTime, but built on an open platform. Hope it does well!

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Re:The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone by dwhabcdefg on Thursday August 24, 2017 @12:04PM (#15091233)
It sounds like Matrix is currently "facing a major funding crisis." (https://matrix.org/blog/2017/07/07/a-call-to-arms-supporting...)

Which makes me worried that this downstream project depends upon it.

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Re:The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone by Arathorn on Thursday August 24, 2017 @01:10PM (#15091941)
This is a chicken and egg problem :) Support from Purism if this campaign is successful is one of many ways Matrix's funding can be secured going forwards!
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Re:The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone by mattnewport on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:32PM (#15094992)
Ordered the phone and sent Matrix some BTC. Hopefully you guys can pull this project off!
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Re:The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone by Arathorn on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:56PM (#15095339)
\o/ thanks! :-)
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Re:The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone by swiley on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:50AM (#15090527)
A Decade ago there was a sort of gnome for PDAs. I don't know if that's what this is.
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Re:The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone by moosingin3space on Thursday August 24, 2017 @12:46PM (#15091697)
That was a long time ago, and I think it's discontinued. Gnome Mobile and Embedded Initiative hasn't had an update presented at GUADEC or any other major FOSS conferences in 8 years.
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Re:The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone by megous on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:18AM (#15090793)
Maemo?
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Re:The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone by petecox on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:30PM (#15094978)
Before they switched to Qt, Nokia had extensions to GTK called Hildon.
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Re:The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone by micheljones on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:05AM (#15090687)
Qtopia?
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Re:The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone by swiley on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:07AM (#15090702)
That's QT not GTK. Also QT is still used while the toolkit I'm thinking of isn't.
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Re:The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone by hedora on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:18AM (#15090794)
You might be talking about Enlightenment (not dead yet) or the openmoko gtk ui, though I forget its name too.
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Re:The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone by micheljones on Saturday August 26, 2017 @06:00AM (#15104828)
Ah ok, I misread your comment.
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