Feature request: distribute Flatpak via Flathub

[Peque]

It would be great to have the software distributed as Flatpak via Flathub. 😊

[xtc0r]

Any update on this?
I use Fedora Atomic (Bazzite) and would like to use polychromatic. As far as I understand the Fedora atomic I have to use flatpak as the way to install software.

[lah7]

As far as I know, Fedora Atomic (and others like SteamOS) have immutable filesystems. Polychromatic needs OpenRazer, which requires installing a DKMS driver on the host. Are you able to install OpenRazer just as easily in Fedora Atomic?

OpenRazer can't be a Flatpak:

In general Flatpak is best suited for desktop applications and while command line applications also work, it may not be suited in some cases:

• Kernel modules or drivers are non application packages and won’t work inside a Flatpak.

Flatpak also won’t export udev rules or systemd services from the sandbox to the host and requires manual configuration after installing the flatpak package.

— https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/introduction.html

So far, I haven't heard of successful OpenRazer installations under SteamOS, so installing this app is useless for as long as OpenRazer 3.x is a DKMS driver.

Right now, I don't have incentive to invest time into a Flatpak since the software is already available for a wide variety of distros in their native package format. I have some other concerns:

• Users will want to press "Install" and it magically just works for their Razer stuff, but it needs manual intervention anyway because of OpenRazer being a driver.
• The sandboxing nature of Flatpak may also break some functionality of this software, like troubleshooting, configuring OpenRazer, theme integration (Qt), and new features in the future.

[razzeee]

You can use https://flathub.org/apps/xyz.z3ntu.razergenie after installing OpenRazer on the system. You'll get the best of both worlds. There are talks about enbaling flatpaks to ship kernel stuff etc, but it's very early.

[xtc0r]

OpenRazer is installed and working. Bazzite OS asks you during the first startup if you want to install it.
I'm using https://flathub.org/apps/xyz.z3ntu.razergenie but it has limited features.
In my case I want that my Razer mouse dock to indicate the battery status of my Razer Viper Ultimate battery level via LED coloring. That's a feature the Windows Razer software has. I hoped for polychromatic to provide a similar feature. RazerEngine does not.