Cassidy James   Aug 25, 2023

I’m gonna dip my toes into volunteering as a Flatpak/Flathub developer advocate—basically, providing a human contact at a real company that can help larger apps/companies get their apps in front of Linux (and thus Steam Deck!) users.

What are some of the biggest apps you think are missing from Flathub—or for apps already there, which are the ones you’d like to see verified?

#Flatpak #Flathub #Linux #SteamDeck #OpenSource

Show threadModrinth 
@cassidy We'd love to get the Modrinth App on Flatpak but we've had some trouble doing so.
Aug 25, 2023 at 7:53pmWeb
Show threadCassidy James   Aug 25, 2023

@modrinth I'd be happy to help however I can! If I can't answer questions, I can point you in the right direction, at least. :)

What were the issues you encountered?

Show threadModrinth Aug 25, 2023
@cassidy Two main things:
- Our app is built using Tauri. Tauri itself only provides options to build as AppImage and .deb. Luckily, a member of our community is working on making a Flatpak manifest: https://github.com/modrinth/theseus/pull/559
- Our app is also built using pnpm. In order for us to get into Flathub, we need to be able to build it offline, but there is a notable lack of tooling available for this to be done with pnpm, only npm. Each possible workaround we've found has been less than ideal.
add upstream distribution sources for linux + flatpak package by getchoo · Pull Request #559 · modrinth/theseus

this pr adds some files good for downstream packagers of theseus, including desktop and metainfo files; a flatpak package has been created as well. this should replace the current appimage and deb ...

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