[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