Official Flatpak Support?

[MMachado05]

Because flatpaks are very easily universally-supported, easily integrate into software centers (Gnome Software, Discover, etc), and aren't as weirdly vilified as snaps which make some distros make it very difficult to get snap apps (i.e. Mint, Tuxedo), I feel it may be beneficial to have flatpaks be an officially-supported distribution channel, perhaps even as an direct replacement for the snap application. Please let me know your thoughts!

inb4 "There's the AppImage," I'm well aware! However the far more simple maintanability of flatpaks is still, I think, worth something.

[mifi]

Flatpaks are not officially supported currently. But there is a 3rd party repo with support

[MMachado05]

Right, what I was suggesting is whether the flatpak distribution method could be officially supported. Perhaps in place of the snap, i.e. the download page for lossless cut would list "Install from Flathub" for it's official Linux distribution method.

I say this because, when the flatpak is unofficially supported like it is, an intermediary has to worry about keeping up to date with upstream updates, and then making sure the flatpak matches them. When this doesn't happen, the flatpak falls behind, like it has currently (flatpak is at version 3.55, whereas the newest release was 3.58) Since the benefit of snap is universality across distros (primarily), why not switch to a distribution method that integrates better with existing software centers? Just my thoughts!

[mifi]

Ah, initially I don't think electron-builder supported flatpak (#218), that's why I didn't add any flatpak downloads. But when I look at it again, it now seems to support flatpak. I will try.

[mifi]

Hmm, that failed:

  ⨯ flatpak failed with status code 1  failedTask=build stackTrace=Error: flatpak failed with status code 1
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/runner/work/lossless-cut/lossless-cut/node_modules/@malept/flatpak-bundler/index.js:71:16)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:514:28)
    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1105:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:305:5)

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/actions/runs/7155672372/job/19484549898

not sure what's wrong but I found this: electron/forge#2561

I don't have time to look more into it right now, but I will leave a PR open if someone wants to experiment: #1813

[KaKi87]

Hi,
How is this going ?
Thanks

[mifi]

i haven't worked on that

[KaKi87]

Hi,

A few months ago, I started developing a tool named dynapt to automatically fetch updates through APT for packages that don't provide an APT repository (nor an alternative such as Flatpak).

As I've been upgrading LosslessCut through it for quite some time now, I just published my first pre-release of it, which you can download and set up from this tutorial.

For LosslessCut specifically, replace the following configuration line :

    "apps": []

With the following :

    "apps": [
        {
            "name": "LosslessCut",
            "github": {
                "repo": "mifi/lossless-cut"
            },
            "appimage": true
        }
    ]

For questions or issues, please submit a comment on the tutorial page.

Thanks