Am 21.04.2011 um 19:43 schrieb Ivan Vučica:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 16:58, Zhang Weiwu, Beijing <zhangwe...@realss.com>
> wrote:
> You are right these are strange applications, I verified by doing a google
> search and count number of results. But I do not intend do a selection for
> allegation, I do it the way many users normally do, that is to browse the
> repository and see which one's description or name interests me. Slideshow is
> a very obvious name calling for attention compare to LaternaMagica, a +5 on
> marketing.
>
> Sounds to me like we need a GNUstep-centric end-user oriented app browser…
> something like a GNUstep Software Index, but perhaps a more graphical,
> desktop app with a single-click fetch-source-configure-make-makeinstall? For
> any platform? :-)
Yes, why not?
You can read the SWI contents from
http://www.gnustep.org/softwareindex/plist.php
as a Property List (NSArray arrayWithContentsOfURL) and display / filter /
search
it in a convenient way (NSTableView). Double-Clicking could take the URL and
load the files (NSURLConnection)...
Should not be very complex. Volunteers?
> Maybe even a New And Improved Name™. Something like… GNUstep App Store. Or
> maybe not :-)
Well, although we mostly discuss the .app extension, there are other bundle
file name suffixes :)
BTW: before Apple introduced their App Store, the Apple-Menu did show a menu
item "Software...".
This just did open a Web page in the browser to display a list of Apple
endorsed software.
Now, this link has been replaced to open the AppStore app.
So the "App Store" is just a dedicated Browser for specific Web content that
was available before...
Since our "Browser" is called "Vespucci", we could find a name going in a
similar direction. Named after Someone/thing who provides many useful things...
Some (not filtered) ideas:
* Warehouse.app
* Horreum.app (Latin)
* Fugger.app (14th century trade imperium, Germany)
* ACME.app
* Everything.app
...
Who takes the soccer ball to keep it rolling?
>
> Nah, I'm just kidding. It would be excellent if someone were to dig into it;
> current distribution-specific repositories are great for other software, but
> GNUstep software is under-maintained. Except maybe on, from what everyone
> keeps saying, FreeBSD. :-)
I think the key point is now coming to the surface:
Since I think we will never have a single "application project", we need some
sort
of well maintained "App distributions" which have a quality gate and cherry pick
all the good apps out there. Etoile and GAP are such "productivity and user
experience" projects and SWI is a techical tool to support this (probably not
the
best one, but better than none - and see above)...
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