EDIT: new version 1.0-7 uploaded now.

I am constantly amazed at my capability to blithely ignore things that are right in my face.
The VAI app works great, but for some reason I had the scraper script set to
alphabetize by package name rather then the Name field in the .desktops, so the order was
off in the gui. Have fixed the script and now all apps should display in proper order from A-Z.

No bugs, just moved some files around to comply with Debian's FHS policy,  added a readme in /usr/share/vai with some info,
and cleaned up some superfluous code in the postisnt script in the .deb package. Looking great!

Version 1.0-3 uploaded, this fixes a bug I found that was throwing some leftover de-bugging content into ~/.xsession-errors, bloating it up with some content
that didn't need to be in there, and also confusing my text-editor (Pluma) into thinking the file was binary due to some special characters that got thrown in there. I also added a window icon to the GUI to match the menu entry and other dialogs, and changed the formatting of the description to make it read and render better. Also removed imagemagick as a dependency as it doesn't need it, was going to use it if the app had a hard time with svg icons, but libsrvg and gdk-pixbuf are handling that just fine. Been testing hard all day and can't find any more bugs, so this may finally be the last version.

Thanks to the folks that downloaded and tried it! If you have it and like it, you should un-install the previous version and you'll also need to manually delete the vai folder in ~/.local/share, then install the new .deb.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … -App-Info/

Other than that it's running great. So with these changes i'm also going to convert it to a more conventional system-wide thing as opposed to a user-specific app, the files generated by the scraper will still go into userspace, but the other scripts other than the wrapper will go into /usr/share/vai and the .desktop into /usr/share/applications.

I was really thinking about before you install, usually a one liner repeated 2 or 3 times with out too much real info describing what the app does/provides.

I see your point, Nice work.

Back on topic, my wife sat down last night to test the app for me, and despite the fact that she's a very experienced user of some 16 years like me, she still wanted the .deb to install on her own machine, as she found some useful info in there, specifically Calibre, she didn't know that you could use it to download rss feeds and convert them into e-book format.

https://bkhome.org/news/202507/pkgget-now-syncs-with-apt.html

easyos now uses devuan, neat.

The idea is, when I convert someone to Linux, I always query them about what kinds of apps they need/want, and I roll them up a custom iso with everything they need already installed, but to a new user all the new names may be confusing, so rather than use Synaptic or open each and every program one by one, they can just click this and get a quick explanation. Obviously after that if folks install new programs from Synaptic they'll read the description there with no need really to re-run the app scraper as they chose those programs and already read the info. So after a time once they get used to using their new apps, this program will be obsoleted, but no biggie, I think it's a handy little reference to help them get up to speed quickly.

Nice, really nice. Thank you.

You'll need to have yad installed as well as imagemagick.

BOOM! *mic drop* This puppy is DONE! My first ever stand-alone application with a real GUI, and man what a learning experience!

Time to go after bigger projects now, I have it in mind to fork the crap out of the gnome-disk-utility, get rid of the bullshit CSD and fix their failure to properly wipe empty space before creating secondary partitions.

I'll post the final scripts here in a bit, kinda wiped out right now and popping the top on a cold one to take a victory lap.

Thank you Devuan and Dev1galaxy and all it's users for making my education possible! Beers for everyone!