Flatpak Support

[paerbac]

Would prefer a flatpak distribution option be supported

[bschelst]

same here, it would be handy for the steamdeck!

[tdworz]

There are 3 competitor apps on Flathub already.

1. https://flathub.org/apps/app.ytmdesktop.ytmdesktop
2. https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.zehkira.Monophony
3. https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.audiotube

However this is my favorite YouTube Music desktop app and I wish it was there as well.

[tdworz]

I created a request for this app in the Flathub forums: https://discourse.flathub.org/t/th-ch-youtube-music/4527

[razzeee]

There is also https://github.com/vixalien/muzika coming up to flathub soonish, just for your list.

[JellyBrick]

Is there anyone interested in doing this task?

[justin13888]

I strongly believe that for the sake of cross compatibility across all desktop Linux distros, flatpak should be a supported method of installation. But also one thing to be careful of is ensuring plugins like Discord works.

[justin13888]

Also adding this link for reference to support using Discord Flatpak, although that's something more for users using the Discord Flatpak to worry about: https://github.com/flathub/com.discordapp.Discord/wiki/Rich-Precense-(discord-rpc)

[inson1]

Github action for building flatpak https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-github-actions

[razzeee]

You actually should use https://github.com/flathub-infra/flatpak-github-actions for flathub - but getting the flatpak building is the first step

[xynydev]

I see that this project uses electron-builder for releases. They have a Flatpak build target too, but that doesn't support publishing to Flathub. It would probably be pretty easy to add that build target, though, so that Flatpak users on stuff like immutable Linux distributions would have at least some way of installing.

[justin13888]

There are 3 competitor apps on Flathub already.

1. https://flathub.org/apps/app.ytmdesktop.ytmdesktop

2. https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.zehkira.Monophony

3. https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.audiotube

However this is my favorite YouTube Music desktop app and I wish it was there as well.

Currently, ytmdesktop (first link) seems no longer maintained on FlatHub. But doesn't matter cuz I like th-ch/youtube-music more

[justin13888]

I see that this project uses electron-builder for releases. They have a Flatpak build target too, but that doesn't support publishing to Flathub. It would probably be pretty easy to add that build target, though, so that Flatpak users on stuff like immutable Linux distributions would have at least some way of installing.

Is anybody working on this currently? Otherwise, I could probably do it lol: https://www.electron.build/configuration/flatpak.html

[Grafcube]

I've just opened a PR to add Flatpak support at #2047