REQUEST release appimage

[whysthatso]

https://appimage.org/

[Onatcer]

Feel free to correct me if I misunderstood something here, I'm not too familiar with all the different distribution methods on Linux:

We originally planned on doing AppImage releases, but we do rely on deeplinks that authenticate the application after the successful login. Those logins happen in a regular browser so the Application has to register the custom URL schema with the OS at some point. As far as I understand it, to do this with AppImage you need another application like AppImageLauncher installed so that the AppImage can register that custom URL schema.

I did not get this to work without an additional dependency that has to be installed on the system, so I removed the builds from the release as I think this is very confusing.

[whysthatso]

that makes sense. you seem to have a better understanding of the implications already.

so far i've been quite happy with the web version, so no need for me at the moment. besides not running in a browser tab, are there currently any conceivable feature differences to the web version?

[Onatcer]

it is currently quite similar, the desktop app has a floating window, menu bar controls etc. but there will be more features in the future that the web app does not have (AFK detection, activity tracking etc.)

what distro are you using? because i think the current builds should pretty much cover all popular distros...

[whysthatso]

i'm on archlinux, so i guess all it takes is to get some PKGBUILD up into AUR that takes the deb package. i'll put it onto my endless todo of 'nice to haves' in my infra, but i'm not sure i will get to it... ever :)

[Regen-forest]

Or maybe we can consider flatpak?

[stashymane]

+1 for Flatpak - Snaps are basically unheard of on distributions other than Ubuntu, and AppImages require you to distribute the application yourself, among other support issues.

[marcolaux]

Flatpak should be the way to go. Developers can target users directly, there is a store where they can be verified and users get trusted (and host agnostic) builds directly from the creators.