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Damn, I didn't realize I hadn't been updating the Android client. Just did it. The only sad thing is that the previous no-updates message has been replaced. It
by girzel 9y ago
Damn, I didn't realize I hadn't been updating the Android client. Just did it.
The only sad thing is that the previous no-updates message has been replaced. It used to read "Congratulations! Your apps are up to date (or your repositories are out of date)."
This always tickled me as a perfect evocation of the open-source software spirit: cheerful, optimistic, mildly pedantic, and technically correct.
The new message omits the parenthetical. More user friendly, but missing a bit of FOSS personality.
- manwithaplan 9y agoI also liked the message the first few times I’ve seen it. But then I realized the parenthetical was false 99+ percent of the time (I’ll mostly see it when I’d just finished refreshing my repositories) and it became… irksome, exactly because it was mildly pedantic and technically correct.
- digi_owl 9y agoIt is sadly the way that FOSS ends up because of pressures to be more "commercial". Frankly i dislike the new version, as i much prefer the list layout of the old. Never mind that now i have to dig into the settings to see what apps i have installed that match what is in f-droid repos (and thus can update via f-droid rather than Play).
- eighthave 9y agoOne of the great things about F-Droid is that it is all free software, so anyone is free to make their own F-Droid client. If you like the old UI, please fork it and maintain it. It shouldn't be much work since the XML app index format is maintained for backwards compatibility. For more info, see https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/48 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/48