Removal from the Inkscape Website · Issue #87 · flathub/org.inkscape.Inkscape
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The inkscape project is considering removing the flatpak format from the website's resources/downloads pages because of lack of maintenance. There is no maintainer of the flatpak/flathub format at ...

The Flatpak is already packaged and works well. It just needs to be maintained from a person that joins the Inkscape community.

This would allow further improvements like Portal support and making the app official on Flathub.

Update: One might have been found!

      • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
        2·
        6 months ago

        Not officially but people have managed to reverse engineer it before in order to host their own - https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/lol-an-open-source-snap-server-implementation/27109

        Whilst I do get the sentiment (and in no way do I support Canonical in keeping it proprietary), how likely is it that alternative Snap repos are going to show up if they did make it possible? Even with Flatpak where it is encouraged and documented I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone setting up a Flathub alternative of any significance.

        • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          elementary has their own repo for their system apps

          I didn’t know about the self-hosted snap stores, thanks for pointing it out!

          • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
            2·
            6 months ago

            And I wasn’t aware of the Elementary thing with Flatpak! Admittedly I hadn’t really thought of it in that way, I was thinking something more akin to F-droid where there are a couple of extra repos you can add which have applications not on the main one due to slightly looser requirements. But making it specifically for apps for that ecosystem in particular makes a lot of sense.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 months ago

      For what it is worth you can install Snap on most distros. https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd

      Snap is a cesspool for malware and shovel ware. The best apps are packaged by Canonical. Also, when people still cared about Snap, there were frequent reports of incompatibilities because it was developed with Ubuntu in mind.

    • BennyHill500@lemmy.ml
      1·
      6 months ago

      but you shouldnt because snap’s "strict confinement’ sandbox feature does not work without the legacy patches to Apparmor that ubuntu uses.