Insync as Flatpak (Linux)

Feature requests
#107

I’ve been a lifetime license user since about 2015 or so. I love this software and it’s invaluable to my workflow. I’ve recently had to set up an emergency work environment on my Steam Deck due to my laptop suddenly dying and I was surprised to find that there was no Flatpak!

I hope this feature request gets some love, I can’t imagine I’m the only person who would love to use and pay for this software on their Steam Deck, I’ve seen people using them as audio / video mixers, drawing tablets, etc, and I’m sure there is a need for Google Drive file syncing. A flatpak would be fantastic for Steam Deck users or any other niche distros.

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#108

@mia
As a newly user and a frequent distro hopper I wanted to check the status on flatpak as I use that a lot. I had not expected a 7 year old thread on this… wow…

I agree with a lot of the user comments here, both on flatpaks, immutable OSes and the importance of supporting new and old distros. I think the conclusion here is that there’s a lot for the dev team to do. So what I find weirdest of all is that you don’t engage the very active community and the eagerness to support immutable OSes by getting a damn flatpak.

You literally have a TON of capable people here sitting on their hands to support the efforts getting insync as a flatpak. That is a huge advantage and unheard of when we’re talking about a commercial software product on Linux.
Please acknowledge that and take advantage of it if you can’t allocate the resources (which it doesn’t seem like you can). That’s totally fair but please don’t say that you do focus if you don’t really do it (which there can be a ton of reasons for).

I don’t really know how to be more direct about this. Please let us help you.

/klaus

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#109

I can see your pain points and everyone else’s too, @klausagnoletti. We have explored developing Flatpak some time ago, but ran into multiple hurdles that made it extremely complex to support it (see here).

While we have shelved this since then, we will still heavily consider this in the future given the huge support that our Linux community is ready to give. I appreciate users like you who don’t hesitate to be as direct as you need to be. Thank you for using your voice!

#110

Hey @mia and thanks for your reply.

Speaking of frankness, your reply was more or less a copy/paste of your previous comments so it really didn’t bring anything new to the table sinceI just more or less read the entire 7 years of threads on the subject. Instead I would find it way more valuable if you commented on the things I wrote that you haven’t (as far as I know) commented on before. Especially the part on involving the community and trying out something new now that it seems like whatever you’ve done so far hasn’t done much of a difference. At least not externally.

Have a great day!

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#111

Thank you for sharing your thoughts further! I have forwarded your suggestions to our Linux Team so we can assess alternative ways to approach Flatpak support in the future. :slight_smile: