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".
While you're here - come join the GamingOnLinux Discord!
Hopefully more developers will get their apps onto Flathub and be Verified in future.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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 October 2023 at 6:41 pm UTC
Philadelphus Oct 30, 2023
Quoting: PhiladelphusHmm, 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 October 2023 at 7:15 pm UTC
Quoting: PinballWizardNow 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?
Quoting: JordanPlayz158Quoting: PinballWizardNow 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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