The strategic advantages of Phosh for mobile Linux
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(08-18-2020, 03:13 PM)Boern Wrote: I just wonder why  Purism didn't adapt vanilla Gnome...
The desktop versions of many environments already work quite well. They would just have to be polished a little bit. Instead we have two competing versions, each with their own issues.
GNOME Shell wasn't designed to be a mobile interface. It is very processing heavy and uses too much RAM and too many CPU and GPU cycles for a mobile phone that needs to be energy efficient. The amount of work to make GNOME Shell work as a mobile interface is probably more than simply creating Phosh from scratch, and Purism probably would have had a lot of conflict with the GNOME developers if it had tried, so it would have to fork GNOME to do it.

Can you be specific about what works in GNOME, but doesn't work in Phosh?
Purism's goal is to not create separate mobile applications, but to add to code upstream to existing GTK desktop software so it can run in Phosh. Phosh and GNOME have the same software stack for both desktop and mobile and use many of the same applications, but they will have different interface shells, which should reduce the work to maintain them.


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RE: The strategic advantages of Phosh for mobile Linux - by amosbatto - 08-24-2020, 05:55 PM

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