Akademy/2024/DiscoverBOF

Agenda

• UX
• go through backend
• performance
• flatpak backend parallelism
• update schedule per backend

UX

Improved startup performance. Appstream threading is blocked on changes to appstream. Nate made improvements to the applicationpage.

Featured apps list

Aleix to implement it and shut up. Featured apps can be used to offer apps that aren't in the default application.

Better homepage

Difficult to come up with a design. Marco wants a carousel but Aleix isn't sure about it.

Efficency

Sorting and filtering always needs to load everything. Aleix thinks we can load N items with some restructuring. Maybe turn discover into an always running service (kded or something)

Generic Name over Fancy Name

Would need discussion with VDG and is a broader issue anyway.