Distribute as Flatpak

[gianni-rosato]

LibreWolf is available as a Flatpak, as is standard Mozilla Firefox.

Scrolling down & looking at the number of downloads these browsers receive, LibreWolf gets consistently over 650 downloads per day & Firefox gets over 7,000 per day. Mercury is incredible, and I think the average user would enjoy its benefits. Purely from an adoption standpoint, I could see Flatpak distribution doing great things for Mercury. Many distros are configured with Flatpak support out of the box now, and it would make Mercury far more accessible to the average user. I really hope you consider this, as I'd love to use a Mercury Flatpak & I'm sure many others would as well. Thank you!

[emanuelserpa]

https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/flatpak
https://github.com/flathub/io.gitlab.librewolf-community

LibreWolf can be useful as a reference.

[xplshn]

If you write the YAML, I could mantain the package as you update this project, I already mantain a FlatPak package, OpenARENA(Quake3e engine).

[gianni-rosato]

Hey, any word on whether or not this is being considered?

[xplshn]

Hasn't said anything yet :(

[fortunefox]

Would love to see this! Flatpak would make installing cleaner and easier.

[gz83]

thank you for your suggestions

[nhubaotruong]

Hi @gz83 @xplshn I've created flathub manifest based on librewolf, can you help submit it to flathub and maintain it ?
https://github.com/nhubaotruong/mercury-flatpak

[gz83]

Hi @gz83 @xplshn I've created flathub manifest based on librewolf, can you help submit it to flathub and maintain it ? https://github.com/nhubaotruong/mercury-flatpak

Have you tested it?

@nhubaotruong

[nhubaotruong]

Yes, I've built the flatpak and can run it locally, I just hasn't got the icon right yet

[gz83]

Which icon is abnormal?

@nhubaotruong

[nhubaotruong]

@gz83 I meant I haven't put in any app icon and .desktop file

[ArtikusHG]

Any progress on this? Are there any blockers that prevent this from being sent over to FlatHub?

[xplshn]

I'm too occupied with school, I will check your work tho!

[phrogg]

I'm too occupied with school, I will check your work tho!

Maybe it would be great if you shared what you have done so far. I have no experience with flatpak and would love to push this forward.

[ghost]

I created a submission in flathub/flathub#5308