Unboxing the Purism Librem 5 Evergreen

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.

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.

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Random thought: If the store window is bigger (convergence mode / external screen), could it show all? :thinking:
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 ā€œthis is all that’s availableā€, which again is something where you need to ā€œbe in the knowā€ 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. :upside_down_face:

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

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

Um… so, by ā€œuser guideā€ you mean ā€œsetup assistantā€?
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?

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

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

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Interesting… I don’t have that.

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

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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.

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

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A search for ā€œlibremā€ in the app store found no hits, but ā€œsudo apt install librem5-user-docsā€ places ā€œLibrem 5 User Guideā€ in the App Drawer. It installs locally the content available at https://docs.puri.sm/Librem_5.html .

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

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@linmob recently made another video: ā€œLibrem 5 with PureOS Byzantium: Work in Progress + ā€¦ā€: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEsu9GFGzns

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