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.

Curated Lists

Difficult. A system where users can create curated lists maybe. Or up/downvote apps for certain use cases. e.g. on plasma mobile you should discover plasma mobile apps not vim or libreoffice.

Example of such a list for mobile apps that already exists: https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/

Action Item: Improve the mobile experience. Curated lists or something.

Feedback loop for reviews

Somehow get users to file bugs as bugs not reviews. Maybe only show relevant versions or distros. Weight the reviews differently? (recent versus not)

Backends

Flatpak

Amazing

KNS

Shared ptr for Category.

AI: have a bof on KNS

Packagekit

Hope everyone is happy

rpm ostree

Amazing work happening

fwupd

Works.

Neal has logged a bug a while ago about using the correct api. Look into it.