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rwv / lookscanned.io

📚 LookScanned.io - Make your PDFs look scanned
https://lookscanned.io
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Desktop app as flatpak #209

Open rugk opened 8 months ago

rugk commented 8 months ago

It would be nice if you could publish this as a flatpak on flathub e.g.

Of course, this also requires the app to be wrapped in Electron or so, that you can easily install. The advantage would be you can restrict it (by default) and not give it internet permission, so users can be sure, no data is sent anywhere.

Flatpaks are a new software distribution mechanism for Linux distros, can thus installed on any distro and are easy to update. They are easy to install and update and work on all Linux distros. Also, if you publish it on FlatHub you may grow your user base given many distros include that and it is a common software source, so your app can be discovered more easily.

Here is how to get started.

rwv commented 8 months ago

Electron is too heavy. Also PWA could provide app-like experience. What about your idea?

rugk commented 8 months ago

Yeah there are alternatives for Electron like https://tauri.app/ or so, but yeah, your choice. Personally, I've settled with having it as a PWA using GNOME Web (epiphany). That works and kinda has some desktop environment integration for me. Anyway, a release on flatpak could also bring popularity, as said, etc. So dunno…