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Attached: 1 image Thanks to all you developers out there adding brand colors to your apps over the past months we're almost ready to launch featured banners ✨ If you're an app maintainer and haven't done this yet for your app, here are the docs: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/appdata-guidelines/quality-guidelines To make it more interesting we're setting a deadline! We will be launching the new banners on April 20th, so for the possibility to be featured during the first week, update your apps today :) #flathub #flatpak #gnome #kde #linux
  • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    261·
    9 months ago

    I’m a little confused, why is this news? They’re updating their site design?

    The replies don’t help much, either, unless they’re being ironically hyperbolic…

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    208·
    9 months ago

    Flathub priorities: adding colors and banners;

    What Flathub actually lacks: a decent way of archiving and installing things offline (that knows how to deal with architectures, drivers and dependencies), an official and proper way of mirroring the repository.

    lol

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      192·
      9 months ago

      You’re assuming they can only do one thing at a time, and that the same people who work on this also work on what you speak about.

      • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
        59·
        9 months ago

        No I’m assuming they’ve a limited number of resources, like everyone else, and they like to pool them in the wrong things. Besides they don’t want to open the door for offline and mirroring because then they would lose their privileged position of being the single largest and most used way to get flatpaks.

        • lengau@midwest.social
          5·
          9 months ago

          For all the crap Canonical gets about snaps, these are kinda trivial with snapd. snap download will download a snap and its related assertion, you can install unsigned snaps with --dangerous, and you can add trusted certificates to snapd with a single command.

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          43·
          9 months ago

          Of course they have a limited pool of resources. All projects do, it kinda goes without saying.

          Still doesn’t mean that the people who implemented this are the same ones who could implement what you’re after.

          And besides, it should be the Flatpak project you’re asking for this, not FlatHub.

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    I think they need to work on the lower level stuff and think about the concepts. I like the theming but it means nothing if we don’t have one click installs. I want to visit the website and then click open in software center so I can install it.

    It would also be nice if they had permission popups and separate repos for Foss privacy respecting software and everything else.

    • IverCoder@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      As for the permission popups, they have already done that through XDG Desktop Portals. You might have noticed that, for example, apps with supposedly no filesystem access can still open files you selected via the file picker or opened via the file manager. Or that apps need you to explicitly allowlist them to access your location data. Those are apps that use the portals permission system. Unfortunately not all apps use portals yet.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    Nice little QoL tweak that I’m sure app developers will like.

    I do wonder if this’ll be present in the Gnome/Plasma/other software centres though. If it’s just reflected on the site I’m not sure how many will see it.

      • IverCoder@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        I have seen mockups of GNOME adapting a similar banner style as what Flathub. We might have to wait for GNOME 47 though.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      3·
      8 months ago

      GNOME Software is way more aligned with them than KDE Discover. The permissions are completely illegible at least on Plasma 5. The themed colors will likely not appear