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Application discovery in the wiki / New Templates + page

Don't know whether I should split this into several issues, but since the topics are closely intertwined, I thought I'd put everything here.

IMHO, our current application page is not so nice. It is a little bit outdated and just doesn't represent the wealth of Alpine's and pmOS' repositories. We also have a seperate games page, which is actively maintained but includes more specific info about games (whether they need graphics acceleration etc.). There is the application category too, but if you don't know the application already, in most cases you wouldn't know what it does (e.g. King's Cross).

Of course, there are some Linux mobile app lists out there, but they aren't specific to pmOS and Alpine's repositories, so I think there would be a gain in having a well-structured GUI application list which also states mobile support on pmOS. Since I really like ArchWiki's list of applications, I based the first draft for such a page upon its structure and ArchWiki's App Template.

New Templates

  • Template:pmaport – Template to simplify referencing any pmOS package (I hope something like this doesn't exist already :) )
  • Template:App – GUI App Template based upon ArchWiki's template.
    • I'm not sure whether it is legal to use it in the pmOS Wiki? This page states that GDFL v1.3 was explicitly designed to make interoperation with Creative Commons possible, but only when the content was created before November 1, 2008. And you can not use this permission after August 1, 2009, which would mean my redistribution in the pmOS Wiki would be illegal. Is this correct? If no one knows an answer to this, I'll probably ask in the Arch forums.
    • Plus, feedback on the classification of mobile apps would be appreciated!

New "applications by categories" page

Closely following the categories defined by ArchWiki's page.

TODO:

  • All information from old applications page
  • Informations from apps mentioned in the wiki
    • Games page
    • App category (except CoreStuff, CoreUniverse, CoreGarage, CoreAction from the CoreApps since they are specific to the CoreApps ecosystem. Might add them later if requested.)
    • Web browsers
    • Potential apps? (ask Unah) Probably transforming it into GitLab issues instead.
  • Content deletion & redirection
    • Games (ask Martijn Braam & Nergzd723 before merging)
    • Web browsers
    • Old Applications page
  • Add antifeatures to applications (using the AppAntifeature template)
  • Check whether these apps aren't broken (and ideally open respective issues + MRs in pmOS / Alpine to fix them)
  • Test convergence support of mentioned apps (in qemu + on some devices maybe?), add convergence comment to app pages
  • Remove apps that are not usable on mobile (even without customization)
  • Add default apps from the main supported shells
    • Phosh
    • Plasma Mobile
    • SXMO?
    • XFCE?
  • More applications!
    • Qt-based stuff
    • Mutimedia video players
    • Things you use

What do you think about this? Is this unneeded, or a PITA to maintain? Any thoughts about mobile app classification (mobian's wiki page uses the classification from linmob's app list; maybe we should use this)? Should we add cli applications (right now, everything is focussed around GUI apps)? Suggestions for packaged apps to be included?

There is also one app right now in the list which isn't packaged (Gajim), it's only there because it has a wiki page. Don't know whether we should include such apps? Maybe rather leave it in this page?

Also, please note, current list reflects my usage of pmOS (pmOS edge phosh on PinePhone), so I probably missed a lot of demographics. And sorry if I messed something up, new to wiki editing...

Thanks @Newbyte for already improving the page since it was created!

Edit(s): TODO updated.

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