“The GNOME design seems to be increasingly tailored for
simplicity and to accommodate touchscreen interaction on small
displays. The look is appealing and the general approach is
consistent with broader industry trends, but it raises some tough
questions.GNOME once appeared to have a promising future on mobile
devices, but those days are long past. Efforts to turn GNOME into a
mainstream mobile platform have repeatedly failed. Today, use of
the conventional upstream GNOME environment is largely confined to
a niche audience of technical users.
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