Add in.co.nandakumar.vara

[nandedamana]

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• I am using only the minimal set of permissions. (Using filesystem=host since the users are supposed to be able to persist their work and export to the local filesystm)
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[nandedamana]

Update: I missed the description part:

Drawing and digital painting application with pressure-sensitive brushes. Works on GNU/Linux and Windows.

Vara is not an image editor, unlike GIMP or Photoshop. It probably isn't a kindergarten drawing program either, unlike TuxPaint. It belongs to the group of drawing applications like Krita and MyPaint, but with a limited number of features.

[bbhtt]

The readme says:

Licensing info

I plan to release this program and its source code under some Libre/Open Source
license. Until then, it remains proprietary, but you are free to use this
version of the program for any purpose and to share its verbatim copies with
anybody you want, to the extent permitted by law.

But it's marked as GPL-3.0 in the metainfo file. It's definitely not proprietary anymore since you made the source available. You might want to update that.

[bbhtt]

why do you need host?

[nandedamana]

To help users save the file wherevery they want. Is there another way to do it? I'd spent at least half an hour going through the doc and doing some experiments before adding this hesitantly. I'd be happy to make changes if there is a better way.

[bbhtt]

If your app uses filechooser portal https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser.html and opening and saving goes through a filepicker you don't need any access

[bbhtt]

Looks like it is gtk3, so that involves using Gtkfilechoosernative https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/class.FileChooserNative.html which uses portal by default.

[bbhtt]

Shall we wait for this to be implemented?

[bbhtt]

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[bbhtt]

Metainfo is missing release https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/#release and OARS tag https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/#oars-information

[nandedamana]

The readme says:

Licensing info

I plan to release this program and its source code under some Libre/Open Source
license. Until then, it remains proprietary, but you are free to use this
version of the program for any purpose and to share its verbatim copies with
anybody you want, to the extent permitted by law.

But it's marked as GPL-3.0 in the metainfo file. It's definitely not proprietary anymore since you made the source available. You might want to update that.

Thanks, I've updated it.

[nandedamana]

Metainfo is missing release https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/#release and OARS tag https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/#oars-information

Thanks for the links. I'll fix them. BTW, why didn't the validations steps in https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/submission/ reveal these issues?

EDIT: I think it warned me about the missing rating, not release though.

[bbhtt]

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Build 121956 successful
To test this build, install it from the testing repository:

flatpak install --user https://dl.flathub.org/build-repo/104900/in.co.nandakumar.vara.flatpakref

[nandedamana]

@bbhtt anything remaining to be done from my part (other than the migration to Portals, which I do not plan to do in the current version as long as it is okay)?

[bbhtt]

which I do not plan to do in the current version as long as it is okay)?

Ok sure.

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Build 122711 successful
To test this build, install it from the testing repository:

flatpak install --user https://dl.flathub.org/build-repo/105652/in.co.nandakumar.vara.flatpakref

[barthalion]

/merge

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[nandedamana]

@bbhtt @hfiguiere @barthalion Thanks a lot for your help in getting Vara into Flathub. Unfortunately, due to this issue (duplicate of this one), I'm not able to auto-verify my application. Can I get it manually verified? I've placed the required file in the required path in my website.

[bbhtt]

We generally don't interfere with verification. If it is manually verified it will say "verified by Flathub team" in the tooltip instead of your website, so it is best not to.

You will have to wait until that issue is resolved.