@Justin, do you know of somewhere that explains why?
Not off the top of my head, but Iām sure you can find some on your favourite search engine.
@Justin, Iāve tried why is akonadi disliked - Google Suche. I asked regardless because Iāve solely ever been able to locate fairly non-comprehensive anecdotes, frequently from users (rather than developers). Additionally, some appear to partially misattribute the cause to Akonadi, when itās more probably appears to be a packaging issue.
Either way I am not a fan of Akonadi, so I was hoping for Raven to continue as it was. However Devin the original developer of Raven doesnāt have much time and the time he does have generally spends fixing Plasma Mobile issues. Oh well. Hopefully now that Thunderbird has an Android mail client we might see a mobile Linux version. I know people are doing amazing work on a Firefox stylesheet to make it work great on mobile.
This is now well off-topic so letās leave it to discussion about App ideas.
Reminder that we have this wiki page now as a generic place for application ideas for simple apps:
https://community.kde.org/App_ideas
I added a bunch of my ideas there as well.
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@Justin, thatās actually less probable with the release of their AOSP client, since itās merely a fork of K-9 mail. Theyād be maintaining two mobile interfaces if they made the desktop Thunderbird client work on mobile form factors. Additionally, if youāve ever used the Firefox mobile stylesheet package provided by PMOS, itās in its infancy. To extrapolate that to Firefox would be a non-trivial undertaking.
We already have that, as part of Qrca.
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Ah, I thought I had heard about it but couldnāt find it. Removing from the wiki.
Once it actually gets a release and a stable flatpak it would be great.
All it needs is a more sensible default window size on desktop and have it remember which tab was last opened before closing and itās perfect.
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Is āQrcaā an established app? The name is very similar to Gnome Orca
@mystchonky, itās been around for a few years. invent.kde.org/utilities/qrca reports:
Created on
June 10, 2019
ā¦As corroborated by commit ā60ad680646b7fb8cf5435a0463f9955d6a85fc8aā.
Itās interesting as I come back across this thread and realise that we need better āmarketingā (for lack of a better term) around our less known applications. Qrca not being known above and a post on Mastodon a few days ago about someone not knowing about Tokodon made me realise this.
Edit: I just checked https://apps.kde.org/ and Qrca is not on there, Iāll investigate why.
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we had Issues Ā· Teams / KDE Apps Initiative / Tasks Ā· GitLab already
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It is there, but itās unfindable because it doesnāt have the QR Code keywords in it and itās called āBarcode scannerā.
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Looks like people started using that issue board but forgot to link to it from the preexisting wiki.
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Ugh. This isnāt great.
A good keyboard with dictionaries and swipe gestures and emoji manager but that goes beyond the usual mobile keyboard by implementing ctrl+shift and the full capabilities of a desktop keyboard is really a killer app if done with love.
Other than that, a swipe gestures configurator like an easystroke but for mobile with kwin and wayland is really the way to make plasma and linux phones super appealing to the personalisation lovers. I guess thatās already in the plans for kwin long term but I not so sure so Iāll throw it here.
In more traditional app ideas, a simple doodle app called āpaperā that serves the purpose of turning the phone into a sketch notepad would be great, especially if the drawings can be animated, like 3 images in succession making a gif. To replace pen and paper once and for all or to share a thought with all at a concert for instance. With easy access to sharing the image/gif you made with other phones. If done well, it could be what you use by reflex when you want to explain a futsal strategy to friends or what the animal you just saw looked like.
Oh and kdeconnect android needs a port to linux, the linux phone needs to be able to behave like a remote control / touchpad / keyboard /ā¦ for any other linux machine.
Iād say more so, some standardisation regarding how 3rd-party keyboards should render would be important.
onboard (and mallitt, etcetera) currently render as standalone windows that donāt automatically appear and disappear when the user focuses upon a text form.
Having them be genuine replacements / alternatives of the DE keyboard would make the keyboard ecosystem more compelling. The experience on AOSP 7ā14 is what Iām referring to.
My app idea is a personal book library management app with barcode scanning for importing your books. Currently I use Libib, but itās a paid service with free option. A self hosted FOSS alternative for keeping track of what books, and manga I have already would be preferred. Itās inevitable that Libib will enshitify eventually.
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@Pacifist3, thereās no good client application like what you describe, but if it ever does become worse, Inventaire and Bookwyrm provide official free host instances for their respective FOSS software. Since Libib seems to be an AOSP application, Iāve requested the undermentioned, if of use ā I think barcode scanning is a great idea:
You want Tellico, which is a KDE app. I made my own homeās book inventory once with it, although not with a barcode scanner (I used their ISBN codes, which is whatās read with those barcodes anyway).
It worked great for modern books >1970 since thatās when ISBN was made, not so much with a rare original 1960 German book of mine for example 
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