Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Purism phone

2017-08-25 Thread Francisco Pina Martins
If they plan on using Gnome, they already have an available wayland compositor - mutter. As to how they will make it performant enough to use on a phone and not drain the battery just for switching apps is a different question. It will be interesting to watch unfold. Another challange will be usin

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Purism phone

2017-08-25 Thread Sam Bull
On ven, 2017-08-25 at 10:04 +, Kristijan Žic wrote: > I don't think they can even make convergent apps let alone the os > using the gtk, am I wrong? Also what compositor do they use for > Wayland? I've heard some talk about Mir being considered as a Wayland > compositor for Mate! Well, they se

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Purism phone

2017-08-25 Thread Sam Bull
On ven, 2017-08-25 at 11:59 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > Would be interesting to know what drivers or blobs they use to > control the GPS and GPRS chips. From their site: The mobile baseband will most likely use ROM loaded firmware, but a free software kernel driver. We intend to invest

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Purism phone

2017-08-25 Thread Kristijan Žic
I don't think they can even make convergent apps let alone the os using the gtk, am I wrong? Also what compositor do they use for Wayland? I've heard some talk about Mir being considered as a Wayland compositor for Mate! On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, 12:00 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Friday, August 25

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Purism phone

2017-08-25 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, August 25, 2017 a las 10:46:59AM +0100, Sam Bull escribió: > In case anybody here has not seen the news, Purism are now attempting > an open, convergence capable phone. It looks like it will be running > GNOME, but could be replaced with anything else. Both hardware and > software i

[Ubuntu-phone] Purism phone

2017-08-25 Thread Sam Bull
In case anybody here has not seen the news, Purism are now attempting an open, convergence capable phone. It looks like it will be running GNOME, but could be replaced with anything else. Both hardware and software is focused on user privacy and almost everything is open source. So, if you're stil