The open source smartphone Librem 5 will use the GNOME 3.32 desktop environment

GNOME developer and GNOME Games project maintainer Adrien Plazas announced in a blog today that Purism’s upcoming Librem 5 Linux phone will include the GNOME 3.32 desktop environment by default.

GNOME 3.32 is in development and will be the next major release of the popular desktop environment for the Linux operating system. According to Adrien Plazas, GNOME 3.32 will also be the default UI for Librem 5 Linux phones.

As a result, developers are now inviting GNOME and GTK+ application developers to tweak their applications to run on their favourite GNU/Linux distributions and upcoming Librem 5 Linux phones. The latter will default to Purism’s security-based Pure OS operating system based on Debian. Adrien Plazas said that if you want your application to run on Librem 5, here are some suggestions – use libhandy 0.0.4 and GTK+ 3.24.1 or higher.

Purism announced last month that due to hardware problems at the last minute, they had to postpone the release of the Librem 5 Linux phone until April 2019, but it seems that the delay is not bad news, because the GNOME 3.32 desktop environment will be in 2019. Released in mid-March, just in time for the release of Librem 5.