To deliver a lightweight, modular, touchscreen-friendly shell for GNU/Linux mobile devices that provides the bare minimum set of features to use your mobile device (launch apps, simple dashboard for clock and battery info, etc.) while providing a modular system for extending the shell. The stock shell should consume the least possible amount of system resources. (CPU time, memory, etc.)
The user experience should be modern, respectful, and elegant. This includes internationalization support. The stock shell should have zero integration with any existing desktop environment ecosystem. (GNOME, KDE, COSMIC, etc.) The mobile shell should make use of Freedesktop (XDG) standards.
Lotus uses Git for version control and Meson+Ninja as the build system. The quickest way to build for release is to do the following:
git clone https://gitlab.com/maxrdz/lotus.git
cd lotus/To build Lotus, run the following in the repo root directory:
meson setup build
meson compile -C buildYou can append the -Dprofile=debug argument to build for debug.
To install a build of Lotus, run:
meson install -C buildPLEASE install cross-rs via:
cargo install cross --git https://github.com/cross-rs/crossThe cross project is in a weird state where it doesn't have much motivation and/or time to cut a release, so you need to pull from the main branch to get a lot of bug fixes since the 'latest' release as of December 2024.
Then, you can run:
meson setup build -Dtarget=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
meson compile -C buildCopyright (c) 2025 Max Rodriguez [email protected]
"Lotus" can be found at https://gitlab.com/lotus-shell/lotus
"Lotus" is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, either version 3.0 or, at your option, any later version WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. You can read the full copy of the software license in the COPYING file.