Should KDE provide apps for Horizon OS?

Konstantin Kharlamov Hi-Angel at yandex.ru
Fri Oct 25 15:16:34 BST 2024


On Fri, 2024-10-25 at 14:09 +0000, Loren Burkholder wrote:
> In the world of VR, Meta is currently the dominant force, given its
> headsets are both capable and affordable. Since their Horizon OS is
> built on top of Android, it is capable of running normal Android apps
> as flat windows. However, due to Big Tech Politics™, Google has
> refused to make the Play Store available on Horizon OS, instead
> reserving it for their own upcoming Android XR. The good news is that
> Meta recently opened their app store to not require any sort of
> subjective content review[0], so any Android app can theoretically be
> added to the Horizon store. I've sideloaded KDE Connect to my own
> Quest and found it to be useful, especially for file transfer. What
> is the community opinion on uploading KDE Connect to the Horizon
> store?

👍 IMO, as long as there isn't some cost involved (which in this case
I'd hope would be covered by means of CI), every way to obtain more
users should be used. More users = more contributors or donations, so
more progress. Everyone is happy.


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