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GNOME Shell is one step closer to Linux phones

GNOME Shell is one step closer to Linux phones

Our first post ever on this website was about the GNOME Project "getting ready" to adapt their environment to the growing demand of responsive, mobile-friendly Linux devices. That was back in 2019, before libhandy (Gtk mobile library) was considered stable, and when Librem 5s and PinePhones were less than a

Short guide to Linux phone desktops

Short guide to Linux phone desktops

If choosing a graphical environment for traditional Linux computers is already confusing for some users, deciding one for Linux phones is twice as hard. Most mobile interfaces still lack the maturity and usability of their traditional counterparts, also because integrating all kinds of desktop applications without keyboard can be tricky,

Building responsive Linux mobile apps with libhandy 1.0 and Gtk3

Building responsive Linux mobile apps with libhandy 1.0 and Gtk3

> November 2020: This tutorial is being updated to reflect the minor API and configuration changes in libhandy 1.0, which is the upcoming version. Thanks to Martin Chang (@marty188586 [https://twitter.com/marty188586]) for the tips > For those interested in using C instead of Python as programming language, developer Nilanshu

Designing apps for Linux smartphones: a "quick start guide" by GNOME developer Tobias Bernard

Designing apps for Linux smartphones: a "quick start guide" by GNOME developer Tobias Bernard

No matter how cool your smartphone (or its OS) is, you aren't going much further than with a feature phones unless there's a wide, good quality app ecosystem to back it up. As we've seen in our previous post [https://tuxphones.com/gnome-desktop-phosh-ready-for-purism-necunos-linux-smartphones/], both Purism and GNOME are actively workin

GNOME is getting ready for next-generation Linux smartphones

GNOME is getting ready for next-generation Linux smartphones

The GNOME Desktop Environment is, alongside KDE Plasma, probably the most supported and widely used platform for desktop Linux users. Its extremely modern and touch-supported user interface is nowadays the default out-of-the-box environment on most distros, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the official choice of Purism for their Librem5 Linux smartphone. Here