How is a nearly 10-year-old desktop experience more complete than what we have today?

• flatpak

  431 4,063 9.2 C

  Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework

  

Hopefully-obvious disclaimer: I work on a different Linux distribution, and am employed by a company that makes a lot of money from open source. So, my position has bias. And, these thoughts are mine, not my employer's. And they're not an official position of the distro I work on — but these factors do go into decisions other distros make. (Compare Flatpak's CONTRIBUTING doc and Snapcraft's CONTRIBUTING doc....)

• snapd

  42 1,847 9.9 Go

  The snapd and snap tools enable systems to work with .snap files.

  

Hopefully-obvious disclaimer: I work on a different Linux distribution, and am employed by a company that makes a lot of money from open source. So, my position has bias. And, these thoughts are mine, not my employer's. And they're not an official position of the distro I work on — but these factors do go into decisions other distros make. (Compare Flatpak's CONTRIBUTING doc and Snapcraft's CONTRIBUTING doc....)

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• krunner-appmenu

  8 49 0.0 Python

  Discontinued KRunner appmenu plugin

KDE apps have this built in (ctrl+shift+i). I love it. For non-KDE apps on Plasma there is no native solution but a KRunner plugin and a [Plasma extension](https://github.com/Zren/plasma-hud.

• plasma-hud

  21 230 0.0 Python

  Provides a way to run menubar commands in KDE Plasma through rofi, much like the Unity 7 Heads-Up Display (HUD).

KDE apps have this built in (ctrl+shift+i). I love it. For non-KDE apps on Plasma there is no native solution but a KRunner plugin and a [Plasma extension](https://github.com/Zren/plasma-hud.

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