• lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Lol how the fuck do you browse packages? Did they forget to add a link to “apps” or something to the top menu?

    You have to keep scrolling down the front page and look at categories and maybe press “More Productivity” and you get to see the packages in that category. But you can’t browse all packages and you can’t get a list of all categories.

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I’m not seeing any filters? If I press the search field I just get a prompt.

        I saw there’s a slash sign in a square but I can’t figure out what it’s for. If I click it it dissapears, if I type “/” in the bar I get nothing.

        Edit: so if you press the search button with nothing written you get to https://flathub.org/apps/search which is a somewhat more useful page. The default listing there is still garbage because it’s hard-limited to 1000 apps for some reason but there’s no pagination and no sorting(?). But at least you get a filter bar on the left so there’s that.

        Also if you scroll aaaall the way down to the footer of the page there are some links to “collections” such as “trending” and shit. Which has pagination but no filters and no sorting. 😆 And the distinction between the “trending” and “popular” collections is left as an exercise for the user, I suppose.

        It’s like it was designed by someone who’s never seen or used a package repository in their life.

        • naptera@feddit.de
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          7 months ago

          Yeah, it really is more like google play store or shopping websites and similiar apps/websites (although there are some that have a better design I guess). I’m not really a fan of it either, but I guess people being used to those (which is probably the majority of the userbase of flatpak) feel more comfortable with it.

          My guess with the difference between “trending” and “popular” is that the former means lots of recent downloads and the latter a lot of downloads in a longer timespan (e.g. a year or so)

    • walden@sub.wetshaving.social
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      7 months ago

      Your comment got me thinking… Is this a big deal, or even a small deal?

      I think it’s a deal of some proportion. If someone is trying out Linux for the first time and stumbles across how Flatpaks work and starts exploring Flathub, maybe their initial impression will be good enough to consider switching. If something appears to be polished, then maybe it is.