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Inkscape Flatpak is looking for a maintainer! (github.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by boredsquirrel to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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The Flatpak is already packaged and works well. It just needs to be maintained from a person that joins the Inkscape community.

This would allow further improvements like Portal support and making the app official on Flathub.

Update: One might have been found!

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[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

(except snap, but they seem too Ubuntu specific).

For what it is worth you can install Snap on most distros. https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

But you can’t run your own snap repo

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Not officially but people have managed to reverse engineer it before in order to host their own - https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/lol-an-open-source-snap-server-implementation/27109

Whilst I do get the sentiment (and in no way do I support Canonical in keeping it proprietary), how likely is it that alternative Snap repos are going to show up if they did make it possible? Even with Flatpak where it is encouraged and documented I don't think I've heard of anyone setting up a Flathub alternative of any significance.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

elementary has their own repo for their system apps

I didn’t know about the self-hosted snap stores, thanks for pointing it out!

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

And I wasn't aware of the Elementary thing with Flatpak! Admittedly I hadn't really thought of it in that way, I was thinking something more akin to F-droid where there are a couple of extra repos you can add which have applications not on the main one due to slightly looser requirements. But making it specifically for apps for that ecosystem in particular makes a lot of sense.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

Fedora also has their own flatpak remote, which only includes flatpaks build from Fedora rpms.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

For what it is worth you can install Snap on most distros. https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd

Snap is a cesspool for malware and shovel ware. The best apps are packaged by Canonical. Also, when people still cared about Snap, there were frequent reports of incompatibilities because it was developed with Ubuntu in mind.

[–] BennyHill@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

but you shouldnt because snap's "strict confinement' sandbox feature does not work without the legacy patches to Apparmor that ubuntu uses.