# UI difference in webOS OSE and webOS TV

**URL:** <https://forum.webosose.org/t/ui-difference-in-webos-ose-and-webos-tv/401>\
**Category:** UI/UX\
**Created:** [June 19, 2018, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.webosose.org/t/ui-difference-in-webos-ose-and-webos-tv/401 "2018-06-19T06:32:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![n-jay](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.webosose.org/n-jay/32/126_2.png) [@n-jay](https://forum.webosose.org/u/n-jay)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.webosose.org/t/ui-difference-in-webos-ose-and-webos-tv/401/1 "2018-06-19T06:32:53Z")

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Compared to the regular TV version of webOS, the Open Source Edition has a stripped down version of the UI.  
Is there a specific reason for this?

Would love to know if there's a specific repo that would enable to add a custom interface.

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**Author:** ![SungHyun\_Cho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@SungHyun\_Cho](https://forum.webosose.org/u/SungHyun_Cho)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.webosose.org/t/ui-difference-in-webos-ose-and-webos-tv/401/2 "2018-06-21T01:40:41Z")

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Hi n-jay,

the reason for removing TV UI from the webOS OSE is that we think that it is too much TV oriented UI and maintaining production level UI/UX for open source project was much work for us at the moment of making that decision.

and ofc, you can freely develop and add custom interface.

Thank you much.

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**Author:** ![n-jay](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.webosose.org/n-jay/32/126_2.png) [@n-jay](https://forum.webosose.org/u/n-jay)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.webosose.org/t/ui-difference-in-webos-ose-and-webos-tv/401/3 "2018-06-21T14:36:06Z")

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Noted.

I'm still pretty new to webOS and developing on Operating Systems in general so please excuse me if this next question sounds stupid;  
but is there any particular repository on the webOS OSE github repos that should be given attention to when creating a new launcher UI?

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**Author:** ![Changhyeok](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.webosose.org/changhyeok/32/247_2.png) [@Changhyeok](https://forum.webosose.org/u/Changhyeok)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.webosose.org/t/ui-difference-in-webos-ose-and-webos-tv/401/4 "2018-06-22T03:09:04Z")

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> [@n-jay](#):
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> there any particular repository on the webOS OSE github repos that should be given attention to when creating a new launcher UI?

I think that you can see [https://github.com/webosose/luna-surfacemanager/tree/master/base](https://github.com/webosose/luna-surfacemanager/tree/master/base)

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**Author:** ![n-jay](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.webosose.org/n-jay/32/126_2.png) [@n-jay](https://forum.webosose.org/u/n-jay)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://forum.webosose.org/t/ui-difference-in-webos-ose-and-webos-tv/401/5 "2018-06-22T03:23:43Z")

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Thanks for that, will check it out! 🙂