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[–] Norgur@kbin.social 22 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 They are no longer maintained, this is a fork of them.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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 1 year ago

Awesome news!

[–] not_an_egg 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ForestOrca@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

ELI5, please?

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