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submitted 5 days ago by boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago
[-] user@lemmy.one 8 points 5 days ago

Why is the flatpak not verified on flathub? Hmm

[-] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 45 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

From the conversation it seems to be a similar situation to the project I'm with is in. The flatpak is essentially community maintained rather than being directly supported by the team. To become verified it needs to be done so by a representative of the maintainers of the software. To be verified it doesn't have to have a team member involved in it but this is a requirement Inkscape seem to have imposed.

For us we just aren't in a position to want to support it officially just yet, we have some major upgrades coming to our underlying tech stack that will introduce a whole bunch of stuff that will allow various XDG portals etc. to work properly with the Flatpak sandboxing model. To support it now would involve tons of workarounds which would need to be removed later.

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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 7 points 4 days ago

Wait till you learn that your flatpak client doesn't verify anything it downloads

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

*'til

But the lack of verification and validation is a huge risk to flatpaks. As someone formerly involved with securing OSes, this kind of thing was scary back then and doubly scary since it entered its "don't confirm; just get in, loser" phase.

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Why is the flatpak not verified on flathub? Hmm

Because it's not by upstream Inkscape, apparently.

[-] makeasnek@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

!boinc@sopuli.xyz flatpak also needs a flatpak maintainer! Your work would help people contribute their spare computational power to scientific research. If you are passionate about fighting cancer, mapping the galaxy, etc this is an awesome way to contribute to that effort in a very force multiplying way.

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