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[–] Norgur@kbin.social 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 They are no longer maintained, this is a fork of them.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 (2 children)

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

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 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 9 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 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 8 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 4 points 10 months ago

Awesome news!

[–] not_an_egg 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anyone know if they have plans to put this on F-Droid?

[–] ForestOrca@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

ELI5, please?

[–] BlanK0@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago
[–] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 1 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.