Suggestion: Ability to launch applications

sailfishos-chum / sailfishos-chum-gui

GUI application for utilising the SailfishOS:Chum community repository

https://openrepos.net/content/olf/sailfishoschum-gui-installer

MIT License

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Suggestion: Ability to launch applications #105

Closed Olf0 closed 5 months ago

Olf0 commented 2 years ago

Observation

Most package managers allow to launch a GUI application, e.g. Storeman, Warehouse, all F-Droid client apps etc. IMO it makes sense to enable users to launch an application, especially because SailfishOS sometimes does not display an application icon at the launcher right after installing an app without a reboot.

Implementation suggestion

Add a new bottommost pulley entry at the PackagePage named "Launch", if a package is installed and a GUI application.

rinigus commented 2 years ago

That will not work (trivially) for all apps, such that don't follow Jolla Store notations (harbour-app-name). But would make sense to add such functionality, even if for limited number of packages.