Comment by woodrowbarlow

4 months ago

i agree, except the web part.

Purism did a lot of work to build Phosh, based on Gnome, with GTK apps that had fluid layout. on a phone-size screen, the UI was suited for touch; but connect it to a screen and everything seamlessly switches to a standard Gnome UI.

i would rather see this get mainlined into Gnome, and for it to be common-practice to design desktop apps with a fluid layout that can adapt to phone screens.

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woodrowbarlow

fsflover 4 months ago

> i would rather see this get mainlined into Gnome

This is exactly the plan of Purism, https://puri.sm/posts/how-to-be-upstream-first/

penguin_booze 4 months ago

I'm rooting for the web because it's all plain text technologies. And UIs live high up in the stack that one benefits from quick feedback, and also isn't forced to use a low-level language to develop them. But I suppose there can be language bindings from Python etc.