lirios / appcenter

:rocket: App Center for Liri OS

Liri

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• Manifest files for developers.
• General issue tracker.
• Backers list.
• Wiki.

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Wiki

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appcenter's Issues

Resources are duplicate

We might have the same resource from many different sources, but we want
to present it to the user only once.

Categories

Add support for showing categories

Fix CMake deprecation warnings

Make Warning (dev) at cmake/LibFindMacros.cmake:160 (message):
  Plural form Glib_LIBRARIES;Glib_LIBRARY found in config options of GIO.
  This works as before but is now deprecated.  Please only use singular forms
  INCLUDE_DIR and LIBRARY, and update your find scripts for LibFindMacros >
  2.0 automatic dependency system (most often you can simply remove the
  PROCESS variables entirely).
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake/FindGIO.cmake:26 (libfind_process)
  cmake/LibFindMacros.cmake:14 (find_package)
  cmake/FindFlatpak.cmake:13 (libfind_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:69 (find_package)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Found GIO 
CMake Warning (dev) at cmake/LibFindMacros.cmake:160 (message):
  Plural form Glib_LIBRARIES found in config options of Flatpak.  This works
  as before but is now deprecated.  Please only use singular forms
  INCLUDE_DIR and LIBRARY, and update your find scripts for LibFindMacros >
  2.0 automatic dependency system (most often you can simply remove the
  PROCESS variables entirely).
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake/FindFlatpak.cmake:34 (libfind_process)
  CMakeLists.txt:69 (find_package)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Found Flatpak 
CMake Warning (dev) at /usr/share/ECM/modules/ECMPackageConfigHelpers.cmake:84 (message):
  Your project already requires a version of CMake that includes the
  find_dependency macro via the CMakeFindDependencyMacro module.  You should
  use CMakePackageConfigHelpers instead of ECMPackageConfigHelpers.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  framework/CMakeLists.txt:2 (include)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

Update backend to use Flatpak instead of XDG App

XDG App has been renamed to Flatpak.

AppStream parser library

The official library is very limited and can't parse a lot of stuff, including keywords and kudos.
We should write a small library around a DOM XML parser of the collection.

Flatpak apps and sources are not shown

Everything was renamed to Flatpak and should work however I don't see any application in App Center. (I have installed Flatpak as user)

Reviews and ratings

Add support for reviews and ratings from ODRS.

Can I create an application for LiriOS with Electron ?

LiriOS looks nice. I would like to know since many cross-platform desktop apps created with electron, https://electron.atom.io/apps/. It would be nice if the apps may be ported from those opensource apps available out there.

Installed applications list is too small

Resize the list.

Redesign the UI

UI needs a redesign.

Rewrite API and backends

The design can be improved quiet a lot.
Also add missing features to the Flatpak backend.

Add CMake build system

See lirios/lirios#60

Kudos

Kudos is a rating system for apps based on a combination of AppStream metadata, desktop files and icons.
It is inspired by the same kudos system of gnome-software.

The following metrics define how tightly the application is integrated with the platform:

• HiDpiIcon — installs a 128x128 or larger application icon
• HighContrast — uses hicontrast or scalable icons for visually impaired users
• ModernToolkit — uses a modern toolkit like Gtk-3 or QT-5
• UsesNotifications — registers desktop notifications
• SearchProvider — provides a search provider for GNOME Shell or KDE Plasma
• InstallsUserDocs — provides user documentation

There are some "run-time" kudos as well:

• FeaturedRecommended — Someone from Liri chose to feature this
• HasKeywords — there are keywords in the desktop file used for searching
• HasScreenshots — more than one screenshot is supplied
• MyLanguage — has a populated translation in my locale, or a locale fallback
• Popular — lots of people have downloaded this (not yet available)
• RecentRelease — there been an upstream release in the last year
• Sandboxed — the app runs through a sandbox
• SandboxedSecure — the app runs through a sandbox with additional restrictions

Add and remove sources

Add and remove sources

Support AppImage

More and more upstream projects are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.

Supporting AppImage in Liri OS App Center would have, among others, these advantages:

• Immediate availability of a growing number of applications, directly from their upstream application authors, on the day the software is released
• No unpacking or installation necessary
• No root needed
• No system libraries changed
• Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed (unlike Snap and Flatpak)
• Optional desktop integration with appimaged
• Optional binary delta updates, e.g., for continuous builds (only download the binary diff) using AppImageUpdate
• Can optionally GPG2-sign your AppImages (inside the file)
• Works on Live ISOs (unlike Flatpak)
• Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions

Don't fetch AppStream metadata when Internet is down

If the metadata was cached long ago we download it again but if the Internet connection is down the download fails leaving us with an empty applications list and a lot of errors in the terminal.

If Internet is down we should never try to fetch the metadata, instead we should use the cached metadata or show an error if it's not available.

Update to QtQuick.Controls 2 and Fluid