On: Librem 5 general development report

[abrowne]

I pretty much agree with your recommendations, but they didn't pick GTK+ per se — they wanted GNOME on a phone, so they picked GNOME and use its toolkit.

[shmerl → abrowne]

Choice of Gnome (vs KDE Plasma) is also questionable in my view. But I suppose they had some reasons.

[petecox → shmerl]

Consistency across products - their PureOS runs Gnome.

c.f. Canonical running Unity on desktop and phone.

[_emacsomancer_ → petecox]

The (ever increasing) inflexibility, or perhaps more politely, extremely focused opinionatedness, of Gnome shell makes this seem an unfortunate choice for a project requiring so much adaptation and innovation.