[wish] help needed to install apps

[zeroheure]

Nextspace is very easy and pleasant to use, but miss important softwares for a better usability. Actualy, very few Gnustep apps are available in Centos or Fedora — at least they are not easy to find.
I heavily suggest to add some help with end users in mind :

• some wrappers towards recommended softwares like Firefox, Thunderbird, emacs, LibO and so on.
• documentation to find available Gnustep apps, Flatpak, Snap and Appimages packages.

[trunkmaster]

Xavier, you are reading my thoughts. I’ll plan to add this in future releases. Although, my main goal for now is usability and stability. I don’t’ want to repeat general opensource style mistakes. My general concept is to provide less features in the sake of stability and speed. Sergii Stoian

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[zeroheure]

Totaly agree.

[zeroheure]

To remember :

• as a basis, there is already some obsolete wrappers in GWorkspace (rather obsoletes)
• wrapperfactory.app creates wrappers for GWorkspace

I will test

[zeroheure]

For GNUSTEP packages, simple instructions like these from PikoPixel are a great help.

• http://twilightedge.com/gnustep/pikopixel/fedora_install_script.html

[BertrandDekoninck]

I've also a bunch of app wrappers in my RikIcons repo at https://github.com/BertrandDekoninck/RikIcons/tree/master/AppWrappers.

[nicktelindert]

@BertrandDekoninck Thank you! I was just in the process of making them myself. Maybe we can create a script to convert .desktop files to an app wrapper? A desktop file probably contains all the needed information. Maybe i look into it this week.

[nicktelindert]

I created a bash script to convert .desktop files to .app folders, it already works pretty well, but i consider it a pre-release.
Check it out: https://github.com/nicktelindert/GenerateXAppWrapper

[pcardona34]

Hello,

1. About GNUstep apps:

I am working on a way to install several well tested GNUstep apps one step from sources: the project is there: apps-within-nextspace.

It is still a work in progress . Already a few apps to test the concept. Until now, the dependencies are only set for debian 12 OS. Not yet available under Fedora like distros. But it is planned.

• How it works: it is a shell script and a hierarchy of Applications and Frameworks folders. A desc.sh script contains all the necessary source infos. Then, like in the BSD Ports, there is a batch of scripts to install dependencies, fetch the source, build and install the app...
• In the middle term, I would like to propose a GNUstep app to let the End user choose the apps to install/uninstall...

2. About Wrappers

It seems that this is now provided by NEXTSPACE: when You launch a foreign app, it is wrapped with a menu and an AppIcon.
The only problem is still the issue #454 for the users with a non-us layout keyboard.