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What could your distro learn from another distro? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by pmk@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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For example, I'm using Debian, and I think we could learn a thing or two from Mint about how to make it "friendlier" for new users. I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be "the universal operating system".
I also think we could learn website design from.. looks at notes ..everyone else.

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[–] barbara@lemmy.ml 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

All distros, or none: flatpak has to improve in regards to launching an app from terminal. Following is a joke:

flatpak run com.github.iwalton3.jellyfin-media-player

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

This is extremely simple to fix with scripts that can be automatically created on install time. Here is a quick script I just wrote. It will search for first matching app and run it. Just save the script as flatrun, give it executable bit and put it into $PATH. Run it as like this: flatrun freetube

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# flatrun e
# flatrun freetube

if [ "${#}" -eq 0 ]; then
	flatpak list --app --columns=name,application
else
	app="$(
		flatpak list --app --columns=name,application |
			grep -i -F "${@}" |
			awk -F'\t' '{print $2}'
	)"

	if [ -z "${app}" ]; then
		flatpak list --app --columns=name,application
	elif [[ "$(echo "${app}" | wc -l)" -gt 1 ]]; then
		echo "${app}"
	else
		flatpak run "${app}"
	fi
fi

Edit: Just updated the script to output the list of matching apps, if it matches more than one.

[–] rollingflower@lemmy.kde.social 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes and I did a similar script but "just create a script" is a really bad solution.

Apps should need to declare a shortname and flatpak should have a shortcut for those with a separated command like flatrun.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a good solution would to just have that script autogenerated by the flatpak, honestly.

[–] rollingflower@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 1 year ago

That would mean the app has access to the path, which was explained as insecure in another place

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