11-21-2021, 04:39 AM
(09-07-2021, 10:50 PM)ryo Wrote: (snip)What I mean is, why do we need to add F-Droid to Linux if we already have something like that on Linux for decades?(snip
I have already investigated what they are using for a builder re:a pinephone contrib repo for the big user pool GNU-Linux OSs. It is probably just publishing pinephone specific design skinned apps on flathub, as almost everything on flathub is nearly unusable on mobile as it is for desktop. The best thing about f-droid in our use case is that they have a nice website and app UI for mobile users, we can use it as a target for what a future community-contrib app or repo should look and act like.
Right now we have a bit of a problem as there are several hardware compatible platforms for manjaro, KDE, mobian, etc and for Pinephone to survive and thrive as an everyday useful smartphone there needs to be a way for pinephone users as a community to publish their apps beyond git-->compile like it was 1997. The rich app catalog for the Nokia Maemo devices is testament to what can happen if there is an easy dev environment and an attached software repo even if each OS iteration in that case was target at one single hardware device.
We need either a special repo for every major OS or we as the pine community need to commit to publishing pine optimized software to flathub and featuring these in the software app.
