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Re:Runs on the Librem 5 Smartphone – Week 2 by learnfromstory on Thursday July 11, 2019 @10:51PM (#20417701)
Just shockingly ugly. If you're going to do a pixels-under-glass UI, you really have to start with a toolkit that isn't awful, or you end up with the openmoko which looked exactly like these demos but 12 years ago. You end up with, in short, a phone where the user adjusts the volume using alsamixer in an xterm because the UI wasn't really thought through.
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Re:Runs on the Librem 5 Smartphone – Week 2 by RandomBacon on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:11PM (#20417784)
> Just shockingly ugly.

Are you sure about that? It looks amazing:

https://puri.sm/posts/runs-on-the-librem-5-smartphone-week-3...

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Re:Runs on the Librem 5 Smartphone – Week 2 by the_pwner224 on Friday July 12, 2019 @12:50AM (#20418270)
I'd say its better than most modern phones with their stupid flat UIs. I use KDE on the desktop for its featured richness, but gnome is still much more 3d and I envy its appearance. Buttons very clearly look like buttons and text boxes look like text boxes and the whole thing just looks 'nice.'
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Re:Runs on the Librem 5 Smartphone – Week 2 by learnfromstory on Friday July 12, 2019 @04:30PM (#20424204)
That is literally xterms on phones. That is not amazing to me.
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