new "recommended applications" wiki page

[Mohammad Ghasemi]

I haven't add the softwares to alternativeto.net yet. I wrote an e-mail to
them and asked them to add xfce as a platform to every software in the
list. So those links I gave you don't work yet. If they don't do it for me
I have to do it manually :-(

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Mohammad Ghasemi <ghasemicompany at gmail.com>
wrote:

> so the wiki page would only contain a link for every category on the
> alternativeto.net. with a query that sets the platform to xfce
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Mohammad Ghasemi <
> ghasemicompany at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> one link for every category:
>>
>> for audio and music:
>>  http://alternativeto.net/category/audio-and-music/?platform=xfce
>> For back up software:
>> http://alternativeto.net/category/backup-and-sync/?platform=xfce
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:11 PM, André Miranda <andreldm1989 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  No objections, but what should be done with the wiki list/page? Just a
>>> link to alternativeto.net/?platform=xfce ?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/21/2015 10:47 AM, Mohammad Ghasemi wrote:
>>>
>>>  Pros: The alternativeto.net also keeps softwares in their appropriate
>>> categories. Some software should be in more than one category. e.g. mplayer
>>> is both a music player and video player.
>>>  I would only need to add appropriate links to website for each category.
>>>
>>>  Do you see any problem with my all this reform, guys/girls?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Mohammad Ghasemi <
>>> <ghasemicompany at gmail.com>ghasemicompany at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>   I want to move the list to alternativeto.net This website has
>>>> already done the job for us.
>>>>  This makes it super easy to contribute to xfce software list and keeps
>>>> it more updated. In addition the users can see more descriptive information
>>>> about each software in better polished manner. We also would benefit from
>>>> not only remarks from xfce user's but all other users.
>>>>
>>>>  contributers would only need to add xfce as a "custom platfrom" to the
>>>> software they want to add to the list. And this process takes less than 10
>>>> seconds. The process is much easier than editing the wiki page.
>>>>
>>>>  But there is a downside to it too. The list would be stored on a
>>>> website other than xfce's. Which means... well you know better.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Mohammad Ghasemi <
>>>> <ghasemicompany at gmail.com>ghasemicompany at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>     The page <https://wiki.xfce.org/recommendedapps>
>>>>> https://wiki.xfce.org/recommendedapps does not help users choose
>>>>> applications, very much.
>>>>>
>>>>> The description of most applications merely says "this app is
>>>>> lightweight". Which is a redundant sentence, because the are meant to be
>>>>> lightweight!
>>>>>
>>>>>  The format of the page also makes it hard for the user to compare and
>>>>> choose applications.
>>>>>
>>>>>  I think the Use case for "recommended applications" wiki page should
>>>>> be something like this:
>>>>>  To help the users to find the lightest application in each category
>>>>> that meets their needs.
>>>>>
>>>>>  To satisfy this use case we need one table for each category that has
>>>>> the following fields: Name, Ram usage, Features, Website, Remarks
>>>>>  The table should be sortable by field name. It should be sorted by
>>>>> Ram usage by default.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Usage Scenario: the user visits the page. He/she wants to find the
>>>>> lightest software in category x that has the features he wants. The User
>>>>> chooses the category. He then sees a table sorted by ram usage that
>>>>> contains a list of software in that category. He then reads the features
>>>>> field of every software (starting from the top, lightests first) until he
>>>>> finds the software that has all the features he wants. Then he read the
>>>>> remarks (if existed). After that, he looks on Name field to  check  if the
>>>>> software exists on his distro's repo or not. If it does not exist, then he
>>>>> would look at website field to visit the website of the software.
>>>>>
>>>>>  That's it.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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