Adopting abandoned apps?

asked 2018-12-04 22:45:23 +0300

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updated 2020-03-21 23:14:03 +0300

Direc
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Hello Sailors!

I stumbled across Picross in Jolla Store a year back, but it didn't work at all. At some point a fatal bug had slipped in the release version, or something, but there was a patch for it already. I tested it and it worked - and I liked the game, too. I decided to fix the application properly and publish it, and ended up rewriting some parts of it.

This gave me an idea; are there any other community-provided applications that you would like to use, but are no longer maintained? Submit your suggestions in answers, and I see what I can do :)

Edit: This question was inspired by Sailfish Devember, so make sure you check out that, too!

Edit: Translators are always needed! Many of the projects I picked up are not quite up to date... Please consider helping the community by translating a few applications if you can spare an hour or two.

How are the projects progressing, you ask? First the more active ones:

GPSInfo
- Mostly done for now at least
- Bar chart component may have to be re-implemented (without qcharts.js...)
YTplayer
- Uses custom-made "youtube-dl-lite" for speed
  (It means youtube-dl script execution kind of speed, not download faster speed :)
Battery Buddy
- Finally supports automatically pausing/resuming charging the battery!
- Landscape orientation support
- No longer Jolla Store compatible; only from OpenRepos from now on

Then the ones that haven't had much attention lately, but forgotten they are not, trust me:

CarBudget: Pushed layout fixes to condo4, hopefully he still updates the app... (11.2.2019)
SailKino: major UI rework done and released (25.2.2019)
CountMe 2: Screen blanking prevention added. (12.2.2019)
Picross 2: Updated welcome screen, translations added. (12.2.2019)

The future of these ones is unclear to me (but you can help, too):

Daedalus: It compiled and ran almost out-of-the box!
SMPC: Not started yet.
PhoneHook: Not started yet, but definitely on my list :)
Call Flasher: In consideration. It may be possible, but the results may be poor. Looking at it later this year.
Squeeze UI: In consideration. It's hard to test this, as I don't have a Squeebox... https://openrepos.net/content/pawelspoon/squeeze-ui-remote-ps
File Browser (although it is not abandoned): I am implementing support for other applications to open files and folders in the application. Serious nerd snipe at the moment! Need to learn D-Bus first...
Swipe URL in browser toolbar right/left in order to go back/forward - updated to latest sailfish, forked, with pull request, also released on OpenRepos

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Even abondend apps on OpenRepos that with some TLC may find their way in the Jolla store?

JSEHV ( 2018-12-04 23:51:04 +0300 )edit

Absolutely!

Direc ( 2018-12-05 00:42:35 +0300 )edit

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These two I miss:

Phonehook: https://openrepos.net/content/omnight/phonehook

Call Recorder: https://openrepos.net/content/dpurgin/call-recorder

kaari ( 2018-12-05 03:05:57 +0300 )edit

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I miss "Daily Comics" from tardypad on OpenRepos: https://openrepos.net/content/tardypad/daily-comics

Code is here:

https://github.com/tardypad/sailfishos-daily-comics

And maybe you can improve it by enabling users to edit and fix the comics definitions/urls.

melg01 ( 2018-12-05 06:25:53 +0300 )edit

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Daedalus Musicplayer: https://openrepos.net/content/djselbeck/daedalus-musicplayer

In my eyes the best player for SailfishOS, but unfortunately no longer able to get/display album information since Sailfish 2.1.4.14

dyraig ( 2018-12-05 10:10:40 +0300 )edit

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answered 2019-01-01 12:56:27 +0300

paoletto
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I would like to use (and to adopt, if possible) exNote, and TodoLister (free). Possibly also QML Radio. These are all QtQuick1 applications that would need to be ported to QtQuick2/QtQuickControls2

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answered 2019-01-09 15:48:16 +0300

p_pahare
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MyAnimeList by Cepiperez has became 95% Disfunctional 😔

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answered 2019-02-24 12:47:09 +0300

Malakay
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Hi, I would really appreciate if someone adopts Fast Dial app, because creator abandoned it and there is no replacement for fast dialling in Sailfish 3 :( Another one is ClubCode, which stores clubcard codes and there is no neccesity to store all card in my wallet :)

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rgrnetalk: Great :) Thank you :) problem with this app is that you scan codes, but after closing app it forgets all saved codes. Only thing I know is that last version of SFOS where it was working correctly was Nurmonjoki. I am looking forward for an update in Storeman, good luck :)

Malakay ( 2019-03-02 13:32:43 +0300 )edit

so, how does it look like? :) just curious :)

Malakay ( 2019-03-07 20:28:19 +0300 )edit

I stopped because of all the 'motivating' comments... But I found out that there's a working version available at https://openrepos.net/content/ade/clubcode-fork

rgrnetalk ( 2019-05-20 08:38:25 +0300 )edit

why "motivating comments"? but solved already with ade, I already made czech translation for him :)

Malakay ( 2019-05-26 00:15:26 +0300 )edit

and what about fast dial?it definitely needs some button for instant refreshing contacts, not working automatically like older sfos versions.

Malakay ( 2019-05-26 00:16:30 +0300 )edit

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answered 2019-03-08 10:51:36 +0300

247

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Don't know if it's abandoned or not but prostogram it's not working anymore and it hasn't been updated for ages, so i'll add prostogram or prostogram alpha to the request :)

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Already requested here :) https://together.jolla.com/question/195152/adopting-abandoned-apps/?answer=201176#post-id-201176

raketti ( 2019-03-08 10:53:21 +0300 )edit

Yes, didn't saw that, thanks for pointing that out...

247 ( 2019-03-08 10:56:58 +0300 )edit

already posted see top answers

cemoi71 ( 2019-12-02 13:24:11 +0300 )edit

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answered 2019-03-12 16:19:59 +0300

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updated 2019-03-13 03:20:58 +0300

pawel

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can we vote for patches too ?

just found out that the most important patch is unmaintained and cornerman is looking for an substitute (code is on github)

i'm talking of course about NO HOME CAROUSEL

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NO HOME CAROUSEL still works on 3.0.1.11

kuba77 ( 2019-03-12 18:49:53 +0300 )edit

@kubba77, that does not change the fact that you have to enable dev mode in order to install it and that cornerman left sfos at least 8 months ago

pawel ( 2019-03-13 03:21:53 +0300 )edit

One has to enable Patchmanager's "Developer mode" for many Patches, even (more or less) maintained ones, because Patch authors miss to update the list of SailfishOS versions a Patch is compatible with (when new SailfishOS versions are released, but the Patch does not need to be adapted to them).

olf ( 2019-03-13 03:31:07 +0300 )edit

well reordering apps does not work anymore with that patch..

pawel ( 2019-03-13 09:52:51 +0300 )edit

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answered 2019-03-13 07:45:48 +0300

jjjhhhppp
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One application that I used a while back but hasn't received any updates is the telegram-desktop client. The version on openrepos still works but crashes a fair bit. https://openrepos.net/content/dimaasket/telegram-desktop

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Please check out Depecher. I use and it works kinda very well :)

Direc ( 2019-03-28 16:27:24 +0300 )edit

Then again, I could try compiling it again fro sources and see what happens...

Direc ( 2019-05-07 10:29:49 +0300 )edit

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answered 2019-03-13 16:00:28 +0300

cquence

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updated 2019-12-03 12:42:12 +0300

Foursail

A native foursquare/swarm client for checkins. It had quite complete functionality however it seems that the "Nearby" page gets stuck forever without returning nearby locations.

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answered 2019-03-25 12:52:52 +0300

monkeyisland

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Hi after Update to 3.0.2.8 Dolphin Keyboard is broken.

https://openrepos.net/content/saberaltria/dolphin-keyboard-core

I wrote a report in openrepos.net but no reponse so far. :(

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AFAICS Dolphin Keyboard has been a candidate for this list for long (i.e., it seems to be unmaintained for a long time).

olf ( 2019-03-25 22:41:25 +0300 )edit

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answered 2019-09-20 18:15:53 +0300

b3pio
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Morsehttps://openrepos.net/content/mjtorn/morse This can be a very handy app for helping transitioning people to Sailfish OS easily if they can migrate their Call/SMS info from android/.XML.CSV files. Currently doesn't work at all (Tested on XA2)

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answered 2019-01-17 22:07:19 +0300

Malinux

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Make rutefisk work again. It's available from jolla store, but is not available from openrepos.net

https://github.com/umglurf/harbour-rutefisk

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