[Koha-devel] "Get desktop application" link

[dcook at prosentient.com.au]

That sounds reasonable. I don’t really have a solution in mind, but just wondered about it from a branding perspective. Maybe https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-offline-circulation? 

 

Then again, maybe it’s worthwhile keeping it affiliated with Bywater, since it’s not part of Koha per se? I suppose the “Get Firefox add-on” isn’t really that different in that regard? Perhaps both should be put under a “Third-party” heading? 

 

Admittedly, I’m not familiar with the KOC functionality. (Historically, we’ve used our own custom desktop application to fill this niche.)

 

I don’t have a strong stance in any way. I’m just curious. As the REST API grows, I imagine more and more third-party tools will develop around Koha, and I wonder how those should be recommended to end users. (I suppose that’s a parallel line of thinking with how Koha plugins are published and shared amongst people.)

 

I’m probably just overthinking it, but it’s something I ponder. Happy to let sleeping dogs lie too. 

 

David Cook

Systems Librarian

Prosentient Systems

72/330 Wattle St

Ultimo, NSW 2007

Australia

 

Office: 02 9212 0899

Direct: 02 8005 0595

 

From: Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, 10 January 2020 4:11 AM
To: David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>
Cc: Koha Devel <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] "Get desktop application" link

 

David, that is the canonical source for the offline circ desktop app. There is no community source for it, but I wouldn't be opposed to that if I can be given full rights to such a repo for bug fixes, releases and such.

 

Kyle

 

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On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 1:56 AM <dcook at prosentient.com.au <mailto:dcook at prosentient.com.au> > wrote:

Hi all,

 

I’m just poking around on 19.11 and I notice the “Get desktop application” link on /cgi-bin/koha/circ/circulation-home.pl <http://circulation-home.pl>  points to ByWater’s Github. Is that an optimal link or should it be pointing to a Koha Community resource? 

 

David Cook

Systems Librarian

Prosentient Systems

72/330 Wattle St

Ultimo, NSW 2007

Australia

 

Office: 02 9212 0899

Direct: 02 8005 0595

 

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