Tellico flatpak testing

Robby Stephenson robby at periapsis.org
Tue Jan 18 12:04:14 GMT 2022


I appreciate the feedback. I don't personally use any of them, myself. The
flatpak was a relatively easy addition since KDE had the basics already in
place and it was specifically requested.

On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 5:19 AM Dennis Knorr <dennis.knorr at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hey,
> wanted to shed some light from my perspective.
>
> Snap and flatpak ain't the same thing. And flatpak is from some
> standpoint a little bit better than appimage, because appimage
> duplicates shared libraries between kde applications.
>
> i have nothing against flatpak or appimage, and i personally do not
> "like" snap because there's no other public provider than canonical for
> snaps and because it clogs my mount list, but snap and flatpak are a
> little bit more economically efficient than appimage, on the other side,
> only appimages are truly standalone binaries.
>
> flatpak on flathub has also more applications than appimage hub i think,
> so the camps are divided on that.
>
> also, if you have a working debian package on certain base images of
> ubuntu or debian, there are ways to bundle that up to flatpak or
> appimage, so you could benefit from that.
>
>
> but yay for flatpak as additional thing! :)
>
> Dennis
>
> Am 15.01.22 um 04:27 schrieb Derek Tombrello:
> > I was wondering if appimage might ever be an option? I've been building
> > from source (as you painfully know :) ) since my distribution doesn't
> > carry the new releases, but I've heard bad things about snap/flatpaks.
> > I've never had trouble with appimages, though, and with all the hate
> > I've seen for snap/flatpak, appimage would be more accepted by the
> > community in general / at large. Just wonderin' is all :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ✞ Derek Tombrello (KM4JAG)
> > www.RobotsAndComputers.com <www.RobotsAndComputers.com>
> >
> >
> > /"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did
> > not speak out.
> > Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was
> > neither, so I did not speak out.
> > Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.
> > And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
> > /
> >
> >
> > On 1/2/22 8:12 PM, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> >> Tellico is now available on flathub
> >> https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kde.tellico
> >> <https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kde.tellico>
> >>
> >> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 7:41 AM Robby Stephenson <robby at periapsis.org
> >> <mailto:robby at periapsis.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     If anyone is interested in testing Tellico as a flatpak, I've
> >>     added it to the kdeapps nightly builds. Information on using that
> >>     is available at
> >>     https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Flatpak
> >>     <https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Flatpak>
> >>
> >>     It's building from the master branch at the moment. Let me know if
> >>     there are any issues.
> >>
> >>     Robby
> >>
>
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