Some suggestion to enhance Bodhi and the App Center!

eor2004
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Some suggestion to enhance Bodhi and the App Center! Nov 22, 2023 16:26:13 GMT

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Post by eor2004 on Nov 22, 2023 16:26:13 GMT

Hi all, this is a list of what I think (IMHO) would be good if they could be added to Bodhi and the App center!

Bodhi Linux, tools to add to the system:

1) Add a snapshot utility, it would be awesome to be able to make or create a snapshot ISO or image of the system with all installed applications or programs for installing on other machines!

App Center, some applications or programs to add to the app center:

1) Image viewers section:

Viewnior
Nomacs
Pineapple pictures
Shotwell

2) Burning software:

K3B

3) Email clients:

Geary
Evolution

4) Multimedia:

Audacious
Audacity
Quodlibet
Rythmbox
Mpv
Gnome-Mpv
Celluloid

5) System tools:

Ncdu
Gsmartcontrol
Btop
Bpytop
Kdf
Redshift
Psensor (Make a mention to run "sensors-detect" in a terminal as "sudo" and follow the defaults (just keep pressing enter, it will choose the defaults for you) before running the psensor application or program.

6) Text editors:

Featherpad
Mousepad

7) Torrent clients:

Qbittorrent (The best IMHO).

8) Web browsers:

Falkon (Working fine on my Bodhi linux system, it crashes all the time just like firefox on other lightweight linux distros).
Web browser manager (Adding a suggestion on the App Center to use and/or opening it upon clicking the link on the system internet menu).

I hope these recommendations or suggestions helps you make Bodhi more awesome than it is right now, maybe I'll be adding more in the future as I see fit, cheers!

Last Edit: Nov 22, 2023 19:25:07 GMT by eor2004

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Some suggestion to enhance Bodhi and the App Center! Nov 25, 2023 7:51:16 GMT

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Post by enigma9o7 on Nov 25, 2023 7:51:16 GMT

Nov 22, 2023 16:26:13 GMT eor2004 said:

1) Add a snapshot utility, it would be awesome to be able to make or create a snapshot ISO or image of the system with all installed applications or programs for installing on other machines!

Timeshift is already included in apppack version, and works great for snapshots, give it a try.

An iso creator is something bodhi used to offer long ago, called bodhi builder, but it is no longer maintained or distributed. I guess we'd need a new maintainer to bring that tool back. I don't know of anything in ubuntu repos that's similar either.

Nov 22, 2023 16:26:13 GMT eor2004 said:

8) Web browsers: Falkon

I think we should add that, and epiphany, to the web browser manager tool too, since they're already in official repos I imagined it'd be easy, but turns out it's not trivial. My understanding is the way the GUI works isn't designed to scale, and we want everything in default Bodhi to fit in 800x600 if possible (and absolutely fit in 1024x768), so it'll take a little work to make room for more browsers in there, but likely will include more in an update or future Bodhi version.

Nov 22, 2023 16:26:13 GMT eor2004 said:

Web browser manager (Adding a suggestion on the App Center to use and/or opening it upon clicking the link on the system internet menu).

Cool idea, assuming I understand you right, but I dunno if this is technically possible. I'm not a web developer, but my understanding is a webpage (which bodhi app center is just a website) cannot execute external programs on your computer. It can send you files/urls/whatever that you can have associated with external programs, which I believe is kinda how it now works to trigger bodhi's apt-url (which is a local script) to install deb packages from apt repositories. So, I dont think a web page can be triggered to run the same web-browser-manager app we use locally. (I definitely could be wrong, any web developer please chime into this conversation!) Perhaps a smart web developer could make something that looks similar for a browser, perhaps that uses the same config files as the existing web-browser-manager app to avoid having to configure it twice if something changes later. But again a smart volunteer would have to figure something like that out, it wouldn't be trivial....

And QB is my favorite bittorrent client too, I especially like the search feature!

Last Edit: Nov 25, 2023 8:09:18 GMT by enigma9o7

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Some suggestion to enhance Bodhi and the App Center! Nov 27, 2023 1:33:36 GMT xpistian likes this

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Post by TheScarletPimpernel on Nov 27, 2023 1:33:36 GMT

As an outsider to Bodhi (i.e. just a user) I'll make the following observation(please do not construe this as an attack on the O.P.)the suggestions are excellent.

To me, one of the selling points of Bodhi is this:

The AppCenter features a great selection of curated software, all of which are verified to run on Bodhi Linux without problems.

The central idea being the idea of curated software vs just install anything you want from the vast Ubuntu repository and thus play a game of Linux application roulette.

My worry is too many apps in the app center will end up bogging down the Bodhi development team. My experience is regression testing of apps is never fun.

The other issue comes stems from people trying to understand why certain software was selected. In another post I inquired as to the delta between what was featured in the app center verses installed with standard Bodhi. And with the application version you are also left with the lingering question as to why certain software was selected over other software. In other words, from a user perspective, everything added to a list of curated software implies the selection was deliberate and conscious and there is a substantive reason for the selection. Once again, to me, it goes back to the fundamental concept of curated software.

And all this, just posted as wandering thoughts.

Kindest regards to all.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Last Edit: Nov 27, 2023 1:42:46 GMT by TheScarletPimpernel

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