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solemnwarning / rehex

Reverse Engineers' Hex Editor
https://rehex.solemnwarning.net/
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Interested in Flatpak? #156

Closed zocker-160 closed 2 years ago

zocker-160 commented 2 years ago

I have created an (almost) fully working Flatpak of rehex.

I think that would make it way easier for everybody, since Flatpak supports basically any distro out there and should be easier to manage than repositories for each distribution.

One minor thing I noticed is, that the spacing between the lines is different and "not as pretty", but I think that should be fixable.

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solemnwarning commented 2 years ago

The line spacing comes from whatever the font claims is the character height (with no additional padding) - for some reason your "normal" and "flatpak" are using different fonts, and the "flatpak" looks like the default to me, so maybe flatpak is preventing it from reading the settings from your ~?

Personally I don't think Flatpak (or Snap) is a good thing for Linux in general. AppImage isn't ideal, but it is about as close to distro-agnostic as you can get, whereas Flatpak and Snap depend on pre-existing infrastructure in the distribution to support them. Additionally Canonical has been pushing Snaps in recent years so much so that they've gradually been pushing third-party (and even some first-party) out of APT and into Snap-land.

Maintaining a load of deb/rpm packages is a bit of a pain, but it does offer the best integration with the OS and not shoving stale old libraries in with the application. I already do AppImage packages for those who aren't running Ubuntu/Debian/Redhat/SuSE/etc (or who don't want to permanently install the application).

zocker-160 commented 2 years ago

@solemnwarning understood, so this is a "no" then?

If that is the case, I think you can close the issue.