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Re:Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems by squarefoot on Saturday January 26, 2019 @10:04AM (#19006552)
I am, although being Gnome 3 based it won't be the snappy experience one would expect. I can understand their choice though: having to liberate a tablet recently (Asus T101) I tried at first to use XFCE as I do on all my other hardware, but though it ran really fast that was a usability nightmare: absolutely no way to have a reliable screen rotation and trackpad management without patching here and editing there with the risk that it would lose the functionality at the first upgrade. I also tried lxde, mate and other light desktops with results from bad to very bad (wrt screen rotation, all hardware except camera runs fine) then just before giving up I threw Gnome3 at it which worked immediately, but it's definitely a resource hog.
Re:Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems by doublepg23 on Sunday January 27, 2019 @08:58AM (#19011687)
the Librem 5 phone will actually be using their own Phosh [1] shell - made for mobile devices. It's targeting GTK3+ apps but it is not GNOME 3 based.

[1] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh

Re:Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems by zozbot123 on Sunday January 27, 2019 @10:43AM (#19012068)
It's "GNOME 3 based" in that they're working within the GNOME project and using their apps, but it doesn't use GNOME-Shell which is the resource-hog part of GNOME 3.
Re:Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems by squarefoot on Friday February 01, 2019 @11:27AM (#19055495)
Thanks for correcting me, that's really good news. And besides, porting this to non mobile devices would be a lot less stupid than it might appear.