Make bazaar the AIO flatpak app?

[Xarishark]

@kolunmi

I like both flatseal and warehouse but their functionality overlap is big.

Now that Bazaar is in the flathub and users can install it I think it has the chance at some point to even become the official flathub UI management app.
But for that to happen I think you need to integrate all possible functionality a flatpak focused manager would need to have like permissions etc.

Regarding warehouse the only think I think you would need to intergrate is swap between the stable and beta branches of flathub as almost none even cares to use anything else and that is the whole point of flatpak imho. So a simple use the beta channel toggle would be more than enough.

So how hard would it be to intergrate the flatseal functionality to bazaar? Would you be up to either develop your own backend or intergrate the flatseal backend (with the dev of flatseal ofc) to the Bazaar app?

I could totally see a future that the flathub setup webpage would recommend bazaar to be installed with the flatpak system package.

This is not even a feature request or smth I just want to know what you think of this possibility?

Keep up the awesome work. I know you have a lot of work ahead of you but your app is truly amazing GJ

[Synby]

Imho no, bazaar, flatseal, and warehouse atl to me feel like 3 pieces of the same whole (barring warehouse's somewhat odd choice of allowing people to install flatpaks from it). bazaar to install and remove flatpaks, flatseal to manage permissions, and warehouse to manage data and repos seems like a good combination and trying to add the functionality of both flatseal and warehouse into bazaar when both already exists seems overkill.

[kolunmi]

@Xarishark thank you for the suggestion. It is my eventual goal to expand the scope of Bazaar's Flatpak capabilities, but at this stage of development, I want to prioritize making Bazaar better at what it already does.

It would basically be a matter of building out a UI for the functionality Warehouse and Flatseal provide, as it mostly comes down to calling libflatpak.