@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.
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!
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.
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.
I’d really like to know what else insync is working on that is more important than flatpak at this point. flatpak is or has become THE way to distribute apps on linux especially with the rise of immutable distros. It also simplifies the install to a smaller subset of possible issues and test scenarios. Guys, If you can’t figure it out… hire a contractor to do it for you.
It seems to work fine for me. I think it’s usable, but it could be better, but only with involvement of the insync team, due to the proprietary nature.
Tray icon is there and works, but it’s not the correct icon - you get the fallback icon instead (three dots)
Autostart configured from inside insync does not work. It does not set the correct things. (there’s a workaround in the readme)
To fix 1, the application name needs to be correct, we ship it with the reverse dns name of com.insynchq.Insync which the app also needs to use internal, when talking to the system/notification endpoints. So we either need a build with a replaced app name or some way to affect that.
Woaahhh…just entered this forum and was asking @mia if I should open a thread about the flatpak so more people would be able to see it and ask for it, but what a surprise I’ve just when found this one that it’s almost 10 YEARS since it was opened!
Well, I’m one more asking for it cause I think it’s one of the feature request with most comments and people asking for it and the answer is the same I received by chat, that it’s been difficult, that the message will be sent to devs and that they will try again in the future
No wonder why this topic is full of disappointed users that feel ignored but I’m pretty sure we love Insync in general and want to help, but the problem could be not to define an ETA (commit to it), cause it’s easier to leave it for later, that’s the principle of procrastination.
Anyway, thanks anyway @mia for being polite, but I think it’s time to take actions to do something different (if not, that’s the definition of craziness according to Einstein) and I say all this in the best way possible to inspire change cause I really like Insync.
PS: Thanks to all the others that have commented and tried to make this happen before, I’ve read all the posts.
