<story><title>Librem 5 design report</title><url>https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbk</author><text>I, for one, don&amp;#x27;t understand the push for Gnome here. I am a backer of librem, and I really don&amp;#x27;t get it.&lt;p&gt;KDE Plasma Mobile is something that actually cares about mobile, is developed by an actual community and still needs a lot of work. Developing another Mobile Shell, on Gnome (that don&amp;#x27;t seem to care about anything else than Linux desktop) feels like NIH and a waste of time and resources...&lt;p&gt;Doing a Mobile Shell (+toolkits +all basic applications) that works reliably is a lot of work and doing it twice is a bit sad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>The impression that I get, with no basis in data whatsoever, is that these days, people that explicitly like KDE use KDE, a few people with strong opinions or definite resource restrictions use other environments like XFCE, LXDE or a tiling window manager, and pretty much everyone else is using GNOME, and so the momentum is behind GNOME, with even Ubuntu recently switching back to GNOME.&lt;p&gt;I think that this is targeting the sorts of people that are more likely to be familiar with and like GNOME than KDE, so there is advantage in using the same software, and producing software that will be able to, as depicted, run on a laptop as well as a phone without feeling out of place anywhere.&lt;p&gt;Note also that they’re working with both GNOME and KDE, so that both will have first-class support:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;puri.sm&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;librem5-gnome-and-kde-collaboration&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;puri.sm&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;librem5-gnome-and-kde-collaboration&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;puri.sm&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;gnome-and-kde-in-pureos-diversity-across-devices&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;puri.sm&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;gnome-and-kde-in-pureos-diversity-acro...&lt;/a&gt; (that latter link includes content very similar in meaning to my remarks above).</text></comment>
<story><title>Librem 5 design report</title><url>https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbk</author><text>I, for one, don&amp;#x27;t understand the push for Gnome here. I am a backer of librem, and I really don&amp;#x27;t get it.&lt;p&gt;KDE Plasma Mobile is something that actually cares about mobile, is developed by an actual community and still needs a lot of work. Developing another Mobile Shell, on Gnome (that don&amp;#x27;t seem to care about anything else than Linux desktop) feels like NIH and a waste of time and resources...&lt;p&gt;Doing a Mobile Shell (+toolkits +all basic applications) that works reliably is a lot of work and doing it twice is a bit sad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fnoord</author><text>Nokia already tried this with Maemo&amp;#x2F;MeeGo, and they eventually &lt;i&gt;bought&lt;/i&gt; Trolltech (and hence Qt) and went that route. Ubuntu Touch (although not a community project) also used Qt5. Sailfish OS (successor of Maemo&amp;#x2F;MeeGo&amp;#x2F;Moblin) also uses Qt. And both use libphys by Carsten Munk et al for the Android emulation layer (you are going to need backwards compatibility for your users). Why not follow the footsteps of giants instead of trying to reinvent your own path? Why not base your OS on either of these?</text></comment>