A Linux App Store Proposal

[Charles Johnson]

I'll just give my opinion as a user, I am not a developer and I've only experienced with Flatpak, packaging sall applications.

I think more than a store -how of Canonical-, the Linux ecosystem needs a place to discover apps with this new format. One must consider that each distribution will take different paths with Flatpak, using it internally or by adding third-party repositories directly (see :https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Third_party_software_proposal). Therefore, the software centers of each distribution ill be central in the user experience to the installation of these types of applications, such as GNOME Software or Yumex-dnf (see: https://github.com/timlau/yumex-dnf/issues/124)

 Therefore, I think a site that is responsible for gathering information from the applications that are distributed as Flatpaks and add a direct download link (bundle), link to the author's website or a link to open it from GNOME Software is a good perspective.





CJT
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De: xdg-app <xdg-app-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> en nombre de Jorge García <jgarciao at gmail.com>
Enviado: jueves, 28 de julio de 2016 10:15:26 p. m.
Para: xdg-app at lists.freedesktop.org
Asunto: A Linux App Store Proposal


Hi,

My name is Jorge García and I'm a software engineer from Barcelona [1]

Some weeks ago I asked Alex privately if he knew about any public or private project about creating a "Linux App Store" using flatpak packages. We exchanged some e-mails and he asked me to take the discussion to the mailing list.

I initially wanted to write a short draft document with some of the ideas but finally I ended up creating a quite formal document with a proposal for a Linux App Store, with some mockups and possible implementation details. You will find the document in the link below [2].

I will be very happy to know your thoughts about this proposal.

Best regards,

Jorge

[1] https://es.linkedin.com/in/jgarciao

[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-021DnJVTcZSXNyQWFZS0JDYmc/view?usp=sharing



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