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Launcher for different utilities

License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Python 57.50% CSS 2.20% Makefile 0.70% QMake 2.22% C++ 28.74% QML 7.69% Shell 0.06% Gherkin 0.89%

kano-apps's Introduction

Kano Apps

Apps is a small app installer and launcher for the Kano OS. It downloads apps from Kano World and installs them on your system. Being focused on ease of use, it colour codes each application and may provide custom icons for some.

The applications are divided into several categories in the directory:

Code,
Games,
Media,
Others,
Tools,
and Experimental.

The program is written entirely in Python using GTK 3.12 via the gi bindings.

It also reads the desktop entries from /usr/share/applications/ and displays them on the Others pane.

Installation

To install Apps on your system, get the kano-apps from our package repository:

sudo apt-get install kano-apps

If not on Kano OS, you might need to add our repo to your sources list:

deb http://repo.kano.me/archive/ release main

Testing

This project doesn't require any compiling to run, just clone the repo and run the main script:

git clone [email protected]:KanoComputing/kano-apps.git
cd kano-apps/bin
./kano-apps

Contributing

We welcome anyone who would like contribute to this project. Check out the bug tracker and wiki. You might also find some useful information in the generic contributor's guidelines that apply to all of our projects.

License

This program is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPLv2. See the LICENSE file for the full text.

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kano-apps's Issues

Disable user-added icons

This won't be possible in the first version of the new kano-apps.

Create kano-apps-installer

This will be a python command-line script at the moment, that will download the *.app JSON and the respective icon from kano-world and install it.

It will need to:

Install the icon to the theme
Regenerate a desktop entries (#13)
Install the app file to /usr/local/share/kano-applications
Update the icon cache sudo update-icon-caches
Install dependencies and the app_packages

It will also need to be able to reverse the process and uninstall the app.

How to distribute apps that are installed by default?

There will be a set of non-removable apps as a part of the kano-apps package and they won't be available for download from the store. These should be mainly core things like the terminal, Codecademy, Chromium, ePDFView, etc ...

We should install other things through kano-apps, so people get the icon and also so they can remove them if they would like to (such as painter, etc ...)

[refactor] Remove the dependency on kano-updater

Apps depend on kano-updater because of a single function. If the function were moved to kano-toolset we could get rid of the dependency which would make it easier to hack on Apps on other platforms.

[refactor] Make module names lowercase

The modules in the kano_apps package are now in CamelCase which doesn't comply with the PEP8 style guide. It would be nice to convert them to lower_case_with_underscores.

Things to be aware of: we need to make sure to propagate the change to all the packages that might depend on kano_apps -- I'm not sure whether there are any at the moment, but it's worth checking.

Manage app icons from the Kano theme

Instead of working with paths, we'll refer to icons in the Kano theme by their name. This is going to make handling them much simpler.

However, there might be a problem with kdesk which doesn't support icon themes at the moment. We might want to consider adding that (or I can hack-in the path for now).

[Make Video] Turn into YouTube

Rename Make Video to YouTube, and replace with this:

And the background colour #d94d48

We should also remove the Video Voyager Badge for now, @alex5imon @zsero .

Any thoughts on this?

how to submit new apps

Dear Kano developpers there is plenty of children game which can be bind in the kano app store.

Like for exemple apps below:
https://wiki.debian.org/Kids/Packages

How can we submit easily the app file so they can be published on the kano os app store?

Create a script to generate desktop entries

Probably generate-app-desktop-entries or something like that.

Is Kano motion sensor water-resistance ?

I am having a Motion sensor kit of Kano( in a Blue Box). Just wondering is it water resistance ? can I use it in winter outside?

Change all .desktop entries to .app entries

This needs to be done in the kano-apps repo and also in all packages that install entries to kano-apps.

The *.app entries should go to /usr/share/kano-applications/ for non-removable ones and /usr/local/share/kano-applications for user-removable ones.

In order to have the icons in the start menu, we'll need to add a dpkg trigger to kano-apps. The trigger should run a script to generate *.desktop entry in /usr/share/applications for each *.app entry.

That will require adding a script to do that (#13).

Help will take the user to a new screen with additional information about the app, with links to websites and videos (which opens in our media player) – like our "Kano OS on an iPad" through VNC.

Investigate AppStream

We might want to look into this for Kano Apps.

Here are the doc's: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/

It should be a cross-distro metadata database for different programs that can be used on Linux.

UI Final touches

Several unrelated tasks on the UI:

~~Change the uninstall button bg colour to gray so it looks like a label~~
Change the scrollbar to the one that is in profile
Change the categories based on the design
Add hints to the ... and + buttons