Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap

Post by syntaxing » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 3:14 PM UTC

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #28

turblety wrote: post #2

I really despise the idea/existence of app stores. Why can't a publishers website be their store front, then from that site, you can run (or "download"/"install" if you must) the app? Technically it looks like that would actually work [1]. They could host the `.snap` file. Although I'm sure snap will add friction to this (as in, not simple let you open and click "Install") from a downloaded snap file, as they probabl…

For me, it's updates... I don't want popups telling me to update software every few days, and then opening a webpage, downloading a snap/deb/whatever, installing it again, with sudo passwords and all that,... and then open another app, another popup, another site, another .deb... It feels like windows. I want a centralized "update" feature, that will do all that for me. This can be done by signal adding its own repo,…

Post by philliphaydon » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 3:14 PM UTC

ifeeltriedboss wrote: post #9

turblety wrote: post #2

I really despise the idea/existence of app stores. Why can't a publishers website be their store front, then from that site, you can run (or "download"/"install" if you must) the app? Technically it looks like that would actually work [1]. They could host the `.snap` file. Although I'm sure snap will add friction to this (as in, not simple let you open and click "Install") from a downloaded snap file, as they probabl…

And if you wanted to install 10 apps, then you'd have to visit 10 web pages, search for the file and then install? No, leave this for Windows.

Post by akvadrako » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 3:16 PM UTC

cmeacham98 wrote: post #38

ifeeltriedboss wrote: post #24

I wonder why Signal opposes flatpak so much. As far as I remember, they insist on sticking to .deb package only [1]. Seems like switching to Flatpak would benefit a lot of people now because of Steam Deck-induced Flatpak popularity [2]. 1. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1639 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/tiidh8/comment/i1em...

There is a Signal flatpak ( https://github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal ), I'm unsure if the Signal devs are involved in it or not.

Post by ajsnigrutin » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 3:18 PM UTC

syntaxing wrote: post #41

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, it's updates... I don't want popups telling me to update software every few days, and then opening a webpage, downloading a snap/deb/whatever, installing it again, with sudo passwords and all that,... and then open another app, another popup, another site, another .deb... It feels like windows. I want a centralized "update" feature, that will do all that for me. This can be done by signal adding its own repo,…

Not sure if your post was satire, but isn’t everything you mentioned doable with apt already? Signal already has an official apt repo so all you need to do is the standard apt upgrade and everything including signal would be updated.

Post by commoner » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 3:20 PM UTC

siwatanejo wrote: post #39

ilaksh wrote: post #30

Well, I have been using Ubuntu for many years. This kind of thing, centralizing packages and removing one without explanation etc makes me think I should move on. I suppose the alternative is to switch to Debian? Or maybe there is something totally different that is becoming popular that I don't know about yet?

As for me, I'll keep ubuntu but I'll start using flatpak instead of snap.