> Lite Software offers a seemingly curated, de-mystified list of > "popular" apps and other installs. > https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/software.html#installsoftware
Yes, it is based on manual curation. The source code contains a hard coded list of applications to recommend.[1] Much of it is proprietary (Skype, Steam, etc.). In order to use this for Trisquel we would need to create and maintain our own list of applications to recommend. I'm not necessarily against this, but it would be a break from the way we've done things. gnome-app-install uses data automatically extracted from .desktop files, rather than data compiled manually, and while applications can be sorted by popularity, we do not otherwise select specific applications to recommend. > And what about ElementaryOS? It's also Ubuntu based, and while the > Pantheon desktop environment is tightly integrated across the OS, it's > at least based on GNOME just as MATE is. And its App Center > (selection visible at https://appcenter.elementary.io/) combines Apple > like slickness with a "pay what you want" style that doesn't > necessarily undermine an ethic of sharing but does easily enable > direct user support for developers and projects. Once and if ported, > this may reduce the workload and debates associated with a tightly > restricted and curated list of apps such as in Lite Software. This appears to use appstream data to generate a list of applications from the distro's repositories, rather than manual curation, so this is more similar to gnome-software and gnome-app-install in its approach. I'm not necessarily against the "pay what you want" feature, as long is it is presented in a transparent way. The applications the user would be installing are packaged in Trisquel's repository. They are not receiving a license or a copy directly from the developer, so it would be misleading to frame a payment to the developer as a transaction. Something like a "donate" button would be fine with me, though. I'm having a pretty busy week, but when I have a chance I'll try out Elementary's AppCenter to see whether it might be suitable. Thanks for the suggestion. [1] https://gitlab.com/linuxlite/litesoftware/blob/master/litesoftware_4.0-0050-linuxlite/usr/bin/lite-software
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