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The concern that people are unable to find a way to get back to applications is a correct one. The recent changes does fix the problem. However, it takes a step back in the design. The 'Applications' text is too prominent. I propose that we replace it with the commonly used icon. Featured in mobile interfaces and on Google home page, users should have no difficulty identifing it as applications icon. After experimenting with the placement of the icon, it seems more asthetically pleasing to have it at the place of 'Applications' text and not at the center etc.
Plinth
Plinth - a web front end for administering FreedomBox
Description
FreedomBox is a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for private, personal communications. It is a networking appliance designed to allow interfacing with the rest of the Internet under conditions of protected privacy and data security. It hosts applications such as blog, wiki, website, social network, email, web proxy and a Tor relay on a device that can replace your Wi-Fi router so that your data stays with you.
Plinth is a web interface to administer the functions of the FreedomBox. It is extensible and provides various applications of FreedomBox as modules. Each module or application provides simplified user interface to control the underlying functionality. As FreedomBox can act as a wireless router, it is possible to configure networking from Plinth. Plinth also allows configuration of basic system parameters such as time zone, hostname and automatic upgrades.
You can find more information about Plinth on the Plinth Wiki page, the FreedomBox Wiki and the FreedomBox Manual.
Getting Started
See the INSTALL file for additional details and dependencies. To install run:
$ sudo python3 setup.py install
Run Plinth on the local system with:
$ sudo plinth
Contributing
See the HACKING file for contributing to Plinth.