Discord, the massively popular messaging platform for text, voice and video has now been fully Verified on Flathub and so it's now official from the developers. It's been available on Flathub for quite some time, although like many other packages, it was not being maintained by the actual developers.
This was announced on Mastodon by Cassidy James Blaede, who works for the Endless OS Foundation (and who co-founded elementary, Inc. and was a UX Architect at System76). Blaede recently mentioned they've been dipping their 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".
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Hopefully more developers will get their apps onto Flathub and be Verified in future.
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The Linux client of discord somewhat sucks. It still misses a lot of features compared to Windows. Secondly other basic things like webcams are not working properly. Meantime I'm using Discord as web app in chromium. This works way better than the native client.
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Now if only I could stream with audio on Linux.
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Not something I would ever use, but good to see this officially supported on Flathub as I know it's widely-used.
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30 Oct 2023
So, there is this trend of using web browser engines to wrap "apps".
I can understand it to a certain extent when they offer functionalities a web browser alone can't achieve, like the integration with the underlying system (steam, heroic), but other use cases are obscure to my understanding (MS Teams).
But now they are wrapping a web app into a browser engine and wrap the result in a flatpak package.
Why one should install a prepackaged flatpak with tons of deps to have something that works better in a tab of an already installed web browser?
Seriously, this is a real question, what is the problem that needs to be addressed by this approach?
I'm still using Discord services by clicking on a bookmark.
Last edited by kokoko3k on 30 Oct 2023 at 6:41 pm UTC
I can understand it to a certain extent when they offer functionalities a web browser alone can't achieve, like the integration with the underlying system (steam, heroic), but other use cases are obscure to my understanding (MS Teams).
But now they are wrapping a web app into a browser engine and wrap the result in a flatpak package.
Why one should install a prepackaged flatpak with tons of deps to have something that works better in a tab of an already installed web browser?
Seriously, this is a real question, what is the problem that needs to be addressed by this approach?
I'm still using Discord services by clicking on a bookmark.
Last edited by kokoko3k on 30 Oct 2023 at 6:41 pm UTC
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Philadelphus 30 Oct 2023
Hmm, might have to switch over if the Flatpak version actually auto-updates. I'm sick and tired of having to manually download the .deb and `sudo dpkg` it every time there's a version update. "Must be your lucky day, there's a new update!"…no, that's not what's going through my head, Discord.
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Hmm, might have to switch over if the Flatpak version actually auto-updates. I'm sick and tired of having to manually download the .deb and `sudo dpkg` it every time there's a version update. "Must be your lucky day, there's a new update!"…no, that's not what's going through my head, Discord.
You can just use the ~/.config/discord/settings.json modifications with
"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": trueand keep using it until the repo has an updated version.
Last edited by Xpander on 30 Oct 2023 at 7:15 pm UTC
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Now if only I could stream with audio on Linux.This may actually be a linux issue, as in I have heard windows are not linked to their audio stream(s), at least maybe not through pipewire?
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Now if only I could stream with audio on Linux.This may actually be a linux issue, as in I have heard windows are not linked to their audio stream(s), at least maybe not through pipewire?
i heard somethibg about that too, i guess was a deficit on the screen share portal, and more apps wanting the functionality can give the devs the signal to start working on it
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Why one should install a prepackaged flatpak with tons of deps to have something that works better in a tab of an already installed web browser?
Push to Talk is not available on the Web app.
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Have they upgraded the Electron version they're using?
yes, actually they are keeping up with electron since a 2/3 years ago
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Now if only I could stream with audio on Linux.
Now if only I could stream with audio on Linux.
A man can dream.
This may actually be a linux issue, as in I have heard windows are not linked to their audio stream(s), at least maybe not through pipewire?
It's a Linux issue. The only solution I have found is using is using XWaylandBridge together with Discord-ScreenAudio (web app packaged). Not optimal as the official electron Dscord app, for all it's faults, is actually better.
https://invent.kde.org/davidedmundson/xwaylandvideobridge/-/jobs/853700/artifacts/browse
https://flathub.org/apps/de.shorsh.discord-screenaudio
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So, there is this trend of using web browser engines to wrap "apps".You've answered your own question: system integration. I like having Discord in a separate window I can identify by icon; I like having it live with my other programs rather than it being subservient to my web browser; I like being able to control its audio volume at the system level.
I can understand it to a certain extent when they offer functionalities a web browser alone can't achieve, like the integration with the underlying system (steam, heroic), but other use cases are obscure to my understanding (MS Teams).
Seriously, this is a real question, what is the problem that needs to be addressed by this approach?
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Now if only I could stream with audio on Linux.This may actually be a linux issue, as in I have heard windows are not linked to their audio stream(s), at least maybe not through pipewire?
IDK recording/streaming audio from the desktop works fine in OBS, also heard it had something to do with them not updating electron or something
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Does the push to talk work now with Wayland if window is not in focus? If not.. when???
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Does this mean I should use the Flatpak version rather than what's in my repositories?
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hardpenguin 31 Oct 2023
So many haters in the comment section 😂 I am just happy for an easier way to install and update Discord 💪
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Philadelphus 31 Oct 2023
Does this mean I should use the Flatpak version rather than what's in my repositories?"Should?" No. Or at least not necessarily. That's a choice you'll have to make for yourself. If you use Flatpak a lot you may like having Discord be part of it as well. If you don't use Flatpak on your machine and are happy with downloading the occasional update (or waiting for your repository to update), you may not want to introduce it. It's up to you and your particular system. The article is mainly saying that if you do want to use the Flatpak version, it's now being officially maintained by the developers.
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Does this mean I should use the Flatpak version rather than what's in my repositories?"Should?" No. Or at least not necessarily. That's a choice you'll have to make for yourself. If you use Flatpak a lot you may like having Discord be part of it as well. If you don't use Flatpak on your machine and are happy with downloading the occasional update (or waiting for your repository to update), you may not want to introduce it. It's up to you and your particular system. The article is mainly saying that if you do want to use the Flatpak version, it's now being officially maintained by the developers.
I typically use repositories, but I'm wondering if that would be more beneficial to since Discord is actually maintaining the Flatpak
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