Hey everyone! I recently decided to try mobile linux on an old Pocophone F1 I had lying around and installed Ubuntu Touch, Postmarket OS with KDE and Phosh on it (in that order).
I couldn’t help but notice that while UT and Phosh had their own app stores (openstore and gnome software respectively), the KDE mobile’s Discover had very little in it.
So my question is - is it possible to install either the UT’s openstore or Phosh’s software store on a KDE install of Postmarket?
I feel like this segmentation of app stores is really hurting the mobile linux ecosystem, since we have very few apps anyway. If we want more developers to make native apps for this platform, we should have some kind of standard packaging format that works on all mobile linux platforms (the same problem exists on desktop linux to a degree btw). Is there a solution for this conundrum?
I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying. Plasma’s Discover allows installing and updating exactly the same apps as GNOME’s Software Center do. There is no “segmentation” there?
And that “standard packaging format that works on all Mobile Linux platforms” is basically Flatpak, and we support it. Not sure why Ubuntu Touch doesn’t, but that’s their problem, even SailfishOS supports it nowadays.
Thanks for clearing this up! It just seems my Discover is not actually properly connecting to Flathub for some reason, hence the confusion.
Make sure you have https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86/discover-backend-flatpak installed. It should be there by default but perhaps something went wrong.