Flatpak version of Fontbase

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Hello everyone, a Flatpak version of Fontbase would be great.
Otherwise, the app is awesome, keep up the good work! :slight_smile:

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Is there any reason why the AppImage doesn’t work for you, @Snydar?
I have it working on both Debian and Ubuntu based Mint, had a system on openSuse where it ran without problems as well.
It’s just linking it to the menu starter that may sometimes be a bit different after an update of the application.

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Hi @boototter, there’s no particular reason, AppImage works fine. It was just a suggestion. I think that’s where things are headed in the future.

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That future IMHO best describes as nowadays.
I have to revise my previous reply: yes please switch from AppImage to Flatpak.
Now that updates got more frequent, each update removes itself from the menu in LinuxMint (both LMDE7 and 22.2/22.3 with Cinnamon) and dislinks itself in autostart.

There’s no automatic download, one has to press the question mark in the top bar.
That’s not what the setting suggests, but that’s the minor problem.
Adding the link to the menu is time consuming administrator’s stuff.
Changing the pointer in autostart to the current version number is not very difficult, but administrator rights are needed for that.

There are two ‘saviours’ at the moment:

  • a link on the desktop where it opens with the gnome-disk-image-mounter so no version numbering is used (that possibility is offered neither in the menu nor in autostart);
  • the new don’t deactivate on closing-function that permits continuity where the desktop has to remain impeccably clean.

The ‘update automatically’-function is of no value for Linux (i.e. Mint/Cinnamon) this way.
Flatpak never posed a problem on any system/distro I use(d), updating is allowed to be done by users without admin-rights, thus ultimately timesaving (over 20 minutes for just two systems…)

Please consider.

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Personally, I don’t mind whether you package with AppImage or Flatpak. I have a bunch of each on my system at any given time. Through experience, I’ve discovered that I have the least problems when I install the packaging format each developer prefers instead of being a purist and only installing the format I like the most. The dev time it would garner to deploy to and support Flatpak in addition to AppImage would better served by building more features for Linux instead. Now, if you look into flatpak and flathub and think you want to switch for [reasons], that’s all good. There is packaging format tribalism, just don’t let it bog you down.

As an aside to this discussion, I use an app called Gear Lever (it happens to be packaged as a Flatpak) to manage all the AppImages on my system. Even though it’s pretty simple to manually install an AppImage, I found that Gear Lever makes it even simpler and adds automatic updates for Applications that support it. I just open Gear Lever and automatically update all AppImages in one swoop as opposed to opening each app one by one.