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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by jchw on Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:37PM (#34917680)
One big tricky thing is plugins, such as for OBS. ABI incompatibility and sandboxing can make it tricky and confusing for end users. Flatpak itself could theoretically provide answers here.
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by sirsinsalot on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:08PM (#34918100)
I feel like you'd end up going full circle back to apt and npm and ...
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by viraptor on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:12PM (#34918151)
They'll have to do it at some point. There's just too many apps with plugins to ignore it. (Including basically all of audio production with their VSTs)
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by lmm on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:37PM (#34918413)
Yep. The main way I notice that an app is using FlatPak is it becomes impossible for me to type Japanese in it because the person distributing it hasn't done the complicated stuff you have to do to make IME work with FlatPak.
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by jchw on Thursday February 23, 2023 @07:35PM (#34919005)
I really hope Wayland helps here. It has an IME input API, so if that's sufficient, maybe it can displace out-of-band input buses on the application-side.
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