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#appimage

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I'm giving up maintainership of the #Subsurface dive log package on #Flathub. There is a too wide gap between how it is developed and what Flathub/Flatpak expects, and I still can't use the Flathub version with my own dive computer because there are Bluetooth issues I have no idea how to debug.

I cannot justify investing more time on an application I use at most three times a year. Especially when the official #AppImage just works.

Okay, so hear me out...

Auto updating mechanism made by the #FreeDesktop org for #AppImage apps... no, srsly.

Think of every electron app out there that automatically updates itself. You do know how that's done, right?

Each of these apps have to check a website for a file - and a hash. It then "confirms" that this package is the latest and greatest version of App - your favourite app.

But now you've suddenly got like 10 different updaters, one of which can be an attack vector... yes.

Me encanta la estetica de la app #Tube, pero necesita algunos retoques:

- el idioma por defecto esta fijado al ingles

- tamaño de la ventana para escribir mensajes es fijo

- en la linea de tiempo para la Federada no es posible crear nuevos mensajes

- no se puede cambiar el tamaño de la fuente general

- no hay version #AppImage

Ojala en proximas versiones esto se vaya mejorando

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@breizh Heu... Alors c'est pas *du tout* ce que je disais. Mon propos était les packages mis à dispo par le logiciel, pas par la distro. Effectivement, gimp3 on l'aura pas dans Debian avant 2 ans et demi, ça, bon... :)

Ce sont les #appimage / #flatpack / #snap que je trouve lents et mal branlés, comme #docker (bullshit buzzwords: #done ). Du coup, je préférerais un package .deb générique pour tout ce qui est debian-like récent, un .rpm pour les riches, et le tgz/git pour les autres... Mais bon, c'est pas à la mode.

Bon bah je voulais potentiellement essayer #gimp3 Ce n'est disponible en précompilé qu'en #flatpack 🤢 🤮 ou en #appimage 🤢 🤮

Et après il ne reste que le tgz. Sérieux quoi... Ça les tuerait de faire un vrai .deb sans faire des packages qui ré-embarquent des tonnes de trucs, on sait pas quoi, qui prennent une place de dingue, et qui seront jamais mis à jour ?

Je ne veux PAS avoir 40 fois des versions différentes d'une même librairie ! Couillons ! Et mon disque il est pas extensible de toute façon. À qui j'envoie la facture de remplacement ? Ainsi que celle de la ram, et du cpu parce que ces merdes sont leeeeentes ?

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@forteller #AppImage support is still done on a per-distro basis, and it really isn't much more than setting permission and executing certain environment variables... I think.

But mayhaps this is a job for ... #FREEDESKTOP

Hello. I'm free desktop... gief money,
We craves it, WE NEEDS IT!!

But yeah, maybe xdg-open should handle that problem. Then distros wouldn't need to do anything to get first rate AppImage support by removing those annoyances.

One can only hope.

When it comes to #Linux and packages for the user, #Flatpak for when you need shared dependencies and #AppImage for when you need a portable app. Basically we've already solved both the "app store" and "downloadable executable" problems.

Snaps could compete, if it supported third party repos OOB and wasn't a vendor lock-in situation, but if and buts were candies and nuts...

Flatpaks, Snaps, & AppImages: "Do we really need these Universal App For...
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