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Re: A new wave of Linux applications

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If I wanted to get into linux phone development, what's a good entry point into this?

I would ask, what is it you want to do?

Linux phone development is more or less the same as linux development, just with a computer that has a smaller screen and a modem.

Re: A new wave of Linux applications

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One of the biggest drawbacks to me about Linux is the aesthetic quality. This gives me alot of hope. As the author said this might really well be a turning point.

I've been really happy with Cinnamon on Linux Mint with the MintY-Dark themes.

Zorin is also beautiful. I installed it on a whim, and it became my daily driver just because it felt so nice to me.

Re: A new wave of Linux applications

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> An example is Flathub, where new applications using the most modern toolkits and UX strategy appear every day, providing "just works" alternatives to complex older FOSS software,, in a boom similar to that seen around 2012 on Apple's Mac App Store.

Damn that’s sad to read - for those unaware, Linux had one of the first app stores ever in about 2002 (Click n Run on Lindows/Linspire).

Re: A new wave of Linux applications

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I have to say I just don't like Gnome's design. The shift away from text and towards more and more abstract icons, the "don't theme my app movement", removing features I consider pretty essential like typeahead.... Maybe mobile is where their weird (to me) design choices will finally shine though. Also looking forward to what KDE can accomplish in this space.

I still dislike the gnome3 title bar with the icons. As you say, unlabelled mystery meat and hamburger menus.

I'll admit, part of my dislike for the new title bars is probably irrationally rooted in just wanting things to stay like they were on windows 98 when I first became familiar with computers, forever, and never to diverge too much from that. But those unlabelled icons, they really do puzzle and frustrate me. On websites too

Re: A new wave of Linux applications

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I have to say I just don't like Gnome's design. The shift away from text and towards more and more abstract icons, the "don't theme my app movement", removing features I consider pretty essential like typeahead.... Maybe mobile is where their weird (to me) design choices will finally shine though. Also looking forward to what KDE can accomplish in this space.

The “don’t theme my app” thing just tells me that GNOME/GTK+/Adwaita aren’t built in a way that gracefully handles theming, or that devs building apps with them are doing things like hard coding colors when they should be using dynamic system colors such as those provided by UIColor[0] in UIKit. [0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uicolor/ui_e...

I feel like partially the movement happened because some themes made the apps unusable and then instead of blaming the theming, users blamed thee app developers instead.

Re: A new wave of Linux applications

#27

I have to say I just don't like Gnome's design. The shift away from text and towards more and more abstract icons, the "don't theme my app movement", removing features I consider pretty essential like typeahead.... Maybe mobile is where their weird (to me) design choices will finally shine though. Also looking forward to what KDE can accomplish in this space.

> Also looking forward to what KDE can accomplish in this space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DLQWv8P5Hw

Re: A new wave of Linux applications

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If I wanted to get into linux phone development, what's a good entry point into this?

Create a new virtual machine and set the window size to 720x1440 with 2x scaling (or just 360x720) which is what the Pinephone uses. Everything else is the same as desktop Linux, just compiled for ARM.

Re: A new wave of Linux applications

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been really happy with Cinnamon on Linux Mint with the MintY-Dark themes.

Zorin is also beautiful. I installed it on a whim, and it became my daily driver just because it felt so nice to me.

I'm on Kubuntu (so KDE), been using it for over 6 months now. I am the kind of person that loves setting up the desktop and all the apps just like I want, so it has been perfect for me, although the defaults are pretty solid as well. The default Breeze theme also is really pretty, I went through all kinds of themes but eventually settled with Breeze due to how good it looks.

Re: A new wave of Linux applications

#30

That's cool and all, but who is actually out here using a linux phone?

I'm not, but I would love to some day. I fucking hate my android phone (and the iphone is just as terrible, in slightly different and often the same ways). Thank god for the people tinkering on pinephones and purism phones, paving the way for something less awful, with control in the hands of the user

We're not there yet, but we won't ever be unless people put effort into it. The linux desktop used to suck, too

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