Automattic/simplenote-electron

Adopt the unofficial Simplenote flatpak and make it verified

amethystgosling163 opened this issue · 2 comments

amethystgosling163 commented

Link to unofficial flatpak. Please contact the maintainer of this flatpak and tell them you want to take control of this flatpak and make it verified and official. That way the flatpak will also be kept up to date since it'll be maintained officially.

Benefits of distributing as Flatpak

  • Shows up in app stores of user-facing Linux distros (flatpak has been adopted by all of them except for Ubuntu) OOTB making it easier to install and discover on those distros.
  • Flatpak is updated with the rest of the system from the software center and can be set to automatically update alongside it as well.
  • Flatpaks are sandboxed (I dunno that if this will be of any benefit to Simplenote because I am not a security expert).

I would even recommend to retire the RPM and the Appimage to lessen the maintainance burden by reducing the amount of distribution methods and instead replace it with the flatpak since it can be easily installed if it isn't already installed on any distro but keep the DEB for Ubuntu because it doesn't have flatpak installed OOTB and its update center doesn't support updating flatpaks once they are installed.

codebykat commented

Hi @amethystgosling163, there's some previous discussion about this, where someone did set it up there as a volunteer effort. I think we do have some access to it, and the Flatpak version is as official as it's likely to be at the moment. We're a small team and are not able to commit to maintaining the package on other channels at this time, as the needs of most people are served by the built-in automatic updater functionality. The latest versions can always be found for download on our website, as well as here on Github.

As far as retiring the Appimage and rpm packages, I don't know which of these things are still commonly used / expected within the Linux ecosystem. It seems Electron-builder has some limited support for building Flatpak packages, but I don't think that solves what you're asking, which is for it to be submitted to the Flatpak store?