new "recommended applications" wiki page

[Mohammad Ghasemi]

should I remove softwares that are discontinued from the list?

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Mohammad Ghasemi <ghasemicompany at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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