People familiar with Flatpak and Blender... want to help Blender on board with Flatpak, officially upstream?

There's an open issue with initial tasks to be completed: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/102949

They could use some help around packaging and permissions. :)

#b3d #OpenSource #Flatpak #Flathub #Linux #Blender

Flatpak package for Linux releases

Blender on Linux is already available as a Snap package. Flatpak seems to be the more popular format at least on non-Ubuntu based distributions, so it would sense to officially support it as well.

^{Blender Projects}

Resources is a modern interface for managing your system's processes and your open applications. See what programs you have running, and kill the apps that are wasting resources. If you want to see if that helped, you can view the usage graphs for your processor, memory, GPU and more. With Resources, keeping your system in check has never been easier!

You can follow the app's creator here: @nokyan

You can get the app on Flathub here: https://flathub.org/apps/net.nokyan.Resources

#gnome #apps #flatpak

Frog is such a neat little Linux desktop app to extract text from images.

You can give it an image (file selector, drag & drop) or let it take a screenshot. And you can even paste an image from your clipboard!

This is great for adding alt text when posting an image or copying text (as text) from a screenshot for sharing (or adding to UI mockups, as I often do).

It also reads QR codes and supports several languages.

https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.tenderowl.frog

#Linux #desktop #app #Gnome #OCR #Flatpak #Flathub

Georges Stavracas is currently putting a lot of effort into a really nice project roadmap, spreadsheet and task board for XDG Desktop Portals:

https://github.com/orgs/flatpak/projects/2/views/3

#Flatpak

XDG Portals workboard • flatpak

Tasks, roadmap, and workboard for XDG portals

^GitHub

@dino 0.4.3 just got released with some exciting improvements for #LinuxMobile

1. Several fixes for touch input, making audio/video calls actually usable on phones
2. Fixes for video support so devices with #libcamera / #pipewire support like the #PinePhonePro work now
3. The app is now recognized as mobile friendly on #Phosh
4. Stricter #Flatpak sandbox - no device/all any more

The new version is available on #Flathub and lots of distro repos.

#GNOME #xmpp #Jabber

The combination of rapidly-improving technologies like GNOME, Flatpak, Wayland, and Portals also means our active privacy protections are also better than ever before.

I went on to write:

>If and when we are able to develop an open, peer reviewed, industry-respected method of responsible and privacy-first telemetry, we may consider doing so.

While that post was in the context of elementary OS, I believe every word I wrote.

#Privacy #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #GNOME #Flatpak

This is @halfmexican; GNOME Outreachy student excited that their effort to make a modern and sandboxed Camera demo for Workbench has paid off 🛠️

Well done! 🎉

Thanks @philn and @slomo for your help!

#GNOME #Outreachy #development #students #GStreamer #PipeWire #Flatpak #freedesktop #libcamera #GTK

If you're interested in using Typescript for GNOME apps, you can now use the new Typescript SDK Extension. I've also published a Typescript Template you can use as a starting point for your apps.

- https://gitlab.gnome.org/BrainBlasted/gnome-typescript-template/
- https://github.com/flathub/org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.typescript

#gnome #typescript #libadwaita #flatpak

GitHub - flathub/org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.typescript

Contribute to flathub/org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.typescript development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Neat, someone made a Teleprompter app.

https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.nokse22.teleprompter

#Linux #libadwaita #GNOME #LinuxMobile #Flatpak

Teleprompter | Flathub

Display scrolling text on your screen

^Flathub

Alright, here's a response article to @martijnbraam's "Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak". I'll be addressing some of their claims by explaining why some of the design decisions make sense the way they are.

https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2023/06/04/response-to-developers-are-lazy-thus-flatpak.html

Edit: should there be a response article to mine, I'll respond it here (unless it doesn't address any of my points).

#Flatpak #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

Response to “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”

Recently, the article “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”, by Martijn Braam, was published to criticize a few things regarding Flatpak. I want to go over the article and address some points that were raised.

^{TheEvilSkeleton}

Embloggeration happened: https://www.bassi.io/articles/2023/05/29/configuring-portals/

In which I explain what desktop developers, distributions, and users can do to configure sandbox portals

#flatpak #gnome #portals

Configuring portals

In which I explain what desktop developers, distributions, and users can do to configure sandbox portals

^{halting problem}

Thanks! (Can I claim a third pack by reporting a bug my patch introduced? :D)

I think Month of LibreOffice & the sticker packs are a great way to get more people involved long-term - after all the first patch/translation/bug report is often the most cumbersome one due to all the setup overhead.

I always try to lower the barriers I bump into along the way, eg. submitted this patch to #fedora to include all build debs ootb:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libreoffice/pull-request/12

Official #flatpak build env when?

@fraggle FYI I threw together a 5-minute #Flatpak manifest for SDL Sopwith. Mostly works!

https://github.com/wjt/flathub/tree/io.github.fragglet.sdl-sopwith

New article: "Overview of Flatpak's Permission Models"

https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2023/05/11/overview-of-flatpaks-permission-models.html

Huge thanks to @orowith2os for proofreading the article :)

#Flatpak #Linux #GNU #Security #FOSS #OpenSource

Overview of Flatpak’s Permission Models

Flatpak’s permissions can be confusing. Some are technical and need knowledge on how they work, and others are self-explanatory.

^{TheEvilSkeleton}

Snapshot, the new Camera (photo/video) app is available on Flathub 🎉 📷

It looks fantastic, here is a picture of Hermine sleeping next to my desk.

https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.Snapshot

Made by @maximiliano 🎩

#Flatpak #Flathub #GNOME #LinuxMobile #Linux #Rust #Gtk

Flathub is definitely leading the charge in the Linux app store space. Everyone else is struggling to just keep up.

#flathub #flatpak