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Fossify Gallery 1.0.1 released (github.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Far@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] Norgur@kbin.social 30 points 10 months ago

Can we pretend that... Say... An imaginary friend of mine has never heard of this and wants to know what it is. Purely hypothetical of course.

[-] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Fork of simple mobile tools, that was bought recently

[-] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago

There is a collection of open source apps that aim to just do their job with no fancy additions, they were called "Simple mobile tools". They are no longer maintained, this is a fork of them.

[-] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

They are (hopefully) maintained by the company that bought them. And yes, this is the fork.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 10 months ago

Considering what the company does with other apps it buys we actually hope that they don't maintain their apps.

[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 1 points 10 months ago

Oh, they'll be "maintained" alright. Just at what cost to the user is what needs to be determined.

[-] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not affiliated with them in any way but want to say this: support them, if you can. The amount of support, or lack thereof, could make or break this fork.

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

Great! So what is it?

[-] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

Simple tools for mobile; gallery, calendar, file manager, etc. A fork of the unmaintained Simple mobile tools.

[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 10 months ago

Awesome news!

[-] ForestOrca@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

ELI5, please?

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Simple Mobile Tools (the creator of Simple Gallery, a very popular gallery app) sold out to a scummy ad company. This is a fork of the Simple Gallery app that won't include all the telemetry and ads the new owners will inject it with.

[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 2 points 10 months ago

Nice! The settings export/import from the SMT version to the new Fossify version works perfectly, plus we get a nice green icon, to easily tell them apart. So happy they're forking these apps.