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Replace Atom in featured apps with a well known app with nice visual identity #644

Closed AsciiWolf closed 10 months ago

AsciiWolf commented 10 months ago

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak.github.io/blob/source/data/apps.yml#L61

https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/

/cc @jimmac

AsciiWolf commented 10 months ago

I would prepare a Pull Request, however I am not sure what color to use.

jimmac commented 10 months ago

On a second thought, perhaps a high visibility free software poject might be a better pick. Thunderbird has a decent rebrand behind it and might look nice.

AsciiWolf commented 10 months ago

I would personally prefer some developer-focused project as a replacement for Atom in this list. But that's just my personal opinion.

Anyway, we already have two messaging-focused apps in that list, two artist-focused apps, one music-focused app and one gaming-focused app.

Visual Studio Code seems like a good fit to me since it is well known and widely used by many developers and hobbyists + it is usually not available in regular (RPM/DEB) repositories.

AsciiWolf commented 10 months ago

Another interesting project to replace Atom with could be OBS Studio. ;-)

jimmac commented 10 months ago

You literally couldn't pick a project with a worse logo.

AsciiWolf commented 10 months ago

Well, I agree that its logo is not ideal. :-) But OBS (except its icon) is still more suitable than Thunderbird in my opinion. We probably want some big project (over 1M or at least 500k users) that is among the popular apps on Flathub and is ideally also an official, verified app on Flathub. Bonus points if such app is not easily available in standard (RPM/DEB) distribution package repositories. :-)

Thunderbird is great, well known and widely used app and has a good looking logo, the problem is that, as I pointed out in my previous comments, we already have two messaging-focused apps in the list.

jimmac commented 10 months ago

If we listed projects by name, I'd wholeheartedly support it. But this is meant as a visual anchor and we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot here.

bertob commented 10 months ago

I agree that we should pick something with a good icon, since that it's how it shows up on the page. If you're looking for a developer tool, maybe Workbench?

AsciiWolf commented 10 months ago

Workbench currently has 35k installs on Flathub and is not something well known and used by majority of developers.

What about Podman Desktop? It currently has only 86k installs, but is a thing that targets wide group of developers (just like Docker) and the Flatpak is officially supported by Red Hat.

AsciiWolf commented 10 months ago

Or we could add Lutris. There already is one gaming-related app (Steam) in the list, but Lutris is also very popular (almost 1.4M installs), verified Flatpak and has good looking icon.

Or Firefox, also verified and has 4.2M installs.

AsciiWolf commented 10 months ago

Maybe Firefox could be the best fit. It is a very well known and widely used app that has a good looking icon.

@jimmac @bertob What do you think?

bertob commented 10 months ago

If popularity is important you can't go wrong with Firefox :+1:

jimmac commented 10 months ago

Firefox is an obvious choice if we're fine with a non dev tool.

jimmac commented 10 months ago

I was going to prepare a patch but getting middleman from back in the day running locally turned out to be a nut too hard to crack. Even after numerous attempts at either running an older container with ruby 2.7 or trying to update middleman I am not victorious. While the os-component rewrite was binned, a rewrite using some modern tool is probably inevitable.