feature request(snap/flatpak)

[Lvaskz]

Hi, see title above.

[TheEvilSkeleton]

I agree. I'd love to see this.

[TheEvilSkeleton]

@Lvaskz what are your thoughts on us working together to get it to work as a flatpak? I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

[Lvaskz]

Hi, I am not developer, but I made flatPak app request, here you are in the right place to see menulibre as flatPak https://discourse.flathub.org/t/menulibre-request-flatpak/870
Can you help?

[TheEvilSkeleton]

Sorry for the late response. I haven't gotten any notifications from this.

I'll try to do what I can.

[TheEvilSkeleton]

Okay, so I initialized the manifest: https://github.com/TheEvilSkeleton/flatpaks/blob/org.bluesabre.MenuLibre/org.bluesabre.MenuLibre.yaml

The program launched! Only thing I now have to do is try to get it to work, since it doesn't look through application files.

[TheEvilSkeleton]

@bluesabre I hope you don't mind the ping. Is there a way to make MenuLibre search inside /run/host/ as well? Since flatpaks are completely sandboxed, host commands are unavailable inside the flatpak, they are mounted in /run/host/. For example, /usr/bin/flatpak in host will be in /run/host/usr/bin/flatpak inside the flatpak.

/run/host/usr/bin/flatpak cannot be executed, that's why I'd like to ask if it can just be found.

[Lvaskz]

Appeditor has the same problem, well I don't know if some other package as appimage or snap will be more convenient for that.

[TheEvilSkeleton]

Maybe a patch to check inside /run/host/ as well? This is the only thing missing currently, since the program itself works, but it doesn't check host commands.

[bluesabre]

@TheEvilSkeleton Sorry for the delay on this! I'll work on getting this added over the weekend.

[TheEvilSkeleton]

@bluesabre awesome. Just a little tip: you can fork my flatpaks repo and update the manifest, and then submit a merge request to https://github.com/flathub/flathub, since I've written most of the manifest already.

[bluesabre]

@TheEvilSkeleton @Lvaskz Thanks for the help here. I think I've got it all working with the below PR if you want to test it out.

#73

[TheEvilSkeleton]

@bluesabre good news and bad news. The good news is that MenuLibre doesn''t complain about flatpak not being available:

After

Before

The bad news is that the flatpaks don't show up in MenuLibre.

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TheEvilSkeleton/flatpaks@c034ae3

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If you want to try out the flatpak, assuming you have the flathub repository added and flatpak-builder installed, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/TheEvilSkeleton/flatpaks
cd flatpaks
git checkout org.bluesabre.MenuLibre
flatpak-builder --force-clean --install-deps-from=flathub --install build-dir org.bluesabre.MenuLibre

[TheEvilSkeleton]

@bluesabre I just tried to change a bit in the manifest, but all of them failed to see the Flatpak packages. I really don't know what to do now.

[bluesabre]

@TheEvilSkeleton I took another crack at it. However, I'm starting to get the feeling that the sandboxed nature of flatpaks is what's actually preventing them from being displayed. I also experimented with another flatpak'd app editor, but it doesn't list flatpaks either.

[TheEvilSkeleton]

@bluesabre I gave the Flatpak package rw access to ~/.local/share/flatpak/ (https://github.com/TheEvilSkeleton/flatpaks/blob/org.bluesabre.MenuLibre/org.bluesabre.MenuLibre.yaml#L14) and added it to the XDG_DATA_DIRS and PATH. That is all I can do to be honest.

I guess the most we can do is ask help in #flatpak on freenode? I don't know how to code, so I cannot help much.