Unboxing the Purism Librem 5 Evergreen

[amarok]

I agree. In my experimentation I have come across several apps that seem to function and scale just fine, so hopefully these can be incorporated over time into the curated list in the store.

[Kyle_Rankin]

I should probably also point out that a number of things will be different when we make the transition from amber PureOS to byzantium PureOS. Newer libraries and packages means we’ll have a larger suite of software that should work. Often software that you might see work on mobian or other distributions, that isn’t in the PureOS Store, can be explained by the older libraries that happen to be in amber. Right now there’s a fair amount of backporting that goes on to get software into amber-phone.

[Caliga]

@Kyle_Rankin

The applications we show in PureOS Store are ones that we feel would give the user a good experience on the screen

Random thought: If the store window is bigger (convergence mode / external screen), could it show all?
Don’t know if that’s a good approach.

However, while the curated list is certainly sensible, the disadvantage is that it gives the impression that “this is all that’s available”, which again is something where you need to “be in the know” to make full use of it.
I don’t know what’s the best solution to that.
But I think the best documentation is the one that is not needed, because everything is obvious.

[amarok]

@Caliga

I never noticed it

The User Guide application can be seen here, starting at 1:10 minutes in:

Librem 5 Visual Walkthrough – Purism

@Caliga

gives the impression that “this is all that’s available”

Searching the rest of the repo is also demonstrated in the video. Correction: That part is not demonstrated.

[Caliga]

Um… so, by “user guide” you mean “setup assistant”?
I thought Kyle was either referring to the Documentation, the quick start guide which is linked there at the bottom, or some adaptation of Gnome Help?

[amarok]

That’s what I understood him to refer to; I could be mistaken, though.

@Kyle_Rankin

User Guide application preinstalled

[Kyle_Rankin]

The package is named librem5-user-docs and it should create a desktop entry at /usr/share/applications/librem5-user-guide.desktop.

[amarok]

Interesting… I don’t have that.

[Kyle_Rankin]

Hmm. That’s too bad. Well I guess I have something to investigate

[maximilian]

@Caliga

Random thought: If the store window is bigger (convergence mode / external screen), could it show all?
Don’t know if that’s a good approach.

Good point.

A good feature could be a filter which you can switch depending on what you search.

Having no filter, maybe pictograms could help. Showing to each app if it’s made for desktop, tablet and/or mobile screen size. Like it’s done in Steam where you can see Windows, Mac or Linux icons.

[Kyle_Rankin]

@Caliga

Random thought: If the store window is bigger (convergence mode / external screen), could it show all?
Don’t know if that’s a good approach.

I think that the PureOS Store does show a different view when in convergence mode. At least it’s something that’s been discussed.

[laubster]

A search for “librem” in the app store found no hits, but “sudo apt install librem5-user-docs” places “Librem 5 User Guide” in the App Drawer. It installs locally the content available at https://docs.puri.sm/Librem_5.html .

[joao.azevedo]

@laubster

A search for “librem” in the app store found no hits

that is because the package does not yet have the proper appstream metadata to show up in the pureOS store

[Quarnero]

@linmob recently made another video: “Librem 5 with PureOS Byzantium: Work in Progress + …”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEsu9GFGzns