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Make Plinth the front page for FreedomBox

Created by: SunilMohanAdapa

Currently, if someone visits their FreedomBox as http://freedombox/ they are shown jwchat interface. This has the following problems:

  • JWChat is only a small part of FreedomBox
  • Other services available such as /owncloud and not easy to discover
  • Even Plinth which should help a user discover various services is hidden under /plinth

I propose that Plinth be the first entry point into all the FreedomBox services. This can be implemented as the dashboard work being done by @fonfon in #20 (with improvements). This approach has several advantages:

  • FreedomBox gets a better looking front page
  • Each service that is implemented in Plinth can choose to expose various interfaces properly
  • Enabling and disabling services in Plinth will reflect changes properly in the front page.
  • Plinth will be able to show the status and health of the FreedomBox and request user intervention.