Flatpak support

Stardust

@Hadden89 said in Upgrade to Chromium 114 – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 3023.3:

but I already see the pattern of "we are in 20xx ... where is my [exploitable] flatpak?"

"where is my [unsandboxed] flatpak?"

sounds better!

ybjrepnfr

@ybjrepnfr @pafflick that's great, thanks very much. this should * hopefully make it easier for future discussions to be also appended here rather than randomly spread across the forum.

* note that i deliberately said should, not would, given... history.

hlehyaric

@ybjrepnfr said in Flatpak support:

lunchtime

According to which timezone?

DoctorG

@hlehyaric means ⇒ T12:00+4200

ybjrepnfr

@hlehyaric i was gonna try to make a sm@rtarse reply, but then saw the dragony one, which is excellent & beats anything i could have done. i curtsy to the champion, @DoctorG

DoctorG

Hmm, take me serious, i wait for a Flatpak to test. But where is it!? Not ready.
Got stuck in the dev's pipeline? No person here in forum who builds one for a test? Sad.

pafflick

@ybjrepnfr said in Flatpak support:

we accept your generous offer. can it be ready by friday, say around lunchtime?

Well, how could we possibly reject your generous offer of a 100 million AUD donation to make that project a reality? Although we might have a little misunderstanding there - we said we will start on Friday (around lunchtime). And the first step would be figuring out where to put the 42 pairs of koala bears you said your donation would include (for some reason).

ybjrepnfr

@pafflick beats me why there's this strange assumption of my nationality, almost as if some peeps rudely disbelieve that i am a complete noob here, from Tierra del Fuego if you must know, unversed in the vivaldi ways, still carefully trying to learn & understand what tabs are...

DoctorG

@ybjrepnfr Please back on topic "Desktop Feature Requests / Flatpak support "

Stardust

@DoctorG said in Flatpak support:

Hmm, take me serious, i wait for a Flatpak to test. But where is it!? Not ready.

me too!
I don't need snap or non-official flatpak, just verified flatpak

XLN

I completely understand Vivaldi's concerns with releasing an official Flatpak package, and I thank them for clarifying.

Since an official flatpak is not viable at this time, would it be possible for the Vivaldi team to share how they got their internal test flatpak to work? So then someone from the community could easily make an unofficial zypak based flatpak which is not ideal but still a big improvement.

Doc4eVer

@XLN said in Flatpak support:

I completely understand Vivaldi's concerns with releasing an official Flatpak package, and I thank them for clarifying.

Since an official flatpak is not viable at this time, would it be possible for the Vivaldi team to share how they got their internal test flatpak to work? So then someone from the community could easily make an unofficial zypak based flatpak which is not ideal but still a big improvement.

i Agree.

sigulete

Good to know a flatpak package is in the works.

In the meanwhile, you can install Vivaldi in toolbox (container).
And to make it accessible from gnome shell, just copy the following files inside the container:

/usr/share/applications/vivaldi-stable.desktop ->
/home/<user>/.local/share/applications/vivaldi-stable.desktop

And

/usr/share/icons/hicolor ->
/home/<user>/.local/share/icons/hicolor

Finally edit the new vivaldi-stable.desktop file.
Change each Exec command as below:

Exec=/usr/bin/vivaldi-stable %U ->
Exec=toolbox run vivaldi %U

(keep the % portion as it in each case)

elvisvan

+1 vivaldi as flatpak package

luetage

@sigulete It’s not “in the works,” in fact it’s been clearly stated this won’t be done for security reasons. Unless someone from the community steps up and creates a flatpak version, it won’t happen.

ybjrepnfr

@luetage i nominate that this becomes the #1 community priority... right after vivaldihooks is fully restored...

Stardust

@luetage said in Flatpak support:

@sigulete It’s not “in the works,” in fact it’s been clearly stated this won’t be done for security reasons. Unless someone from the community steps up and creates a flatpak version, it won’t happen.

I would have even more security concerns if it will be created unofficially

luetage

@Stardust Don’t know. But if this topic tells us anything, then that it’s a bad idea to run any Chromium browser as flatpak.

Stardust

@luetage said in Flatpak support:

But if this topic tells us anything, then that it’s a bad idea to run any Chromium browser as flatpak.

I have the same impression

luetage

@Stardust Interestingly Chromium itself seems to go a different route (without zypak) ☛ https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2021/03/25/chromium-on-flathub/