Possible to offer .deb file?

[Quigsly]

Would be really nice to have this as a .deb file.

[stuartlangridge]

Making deb files is considerably harder than making snaps, which is why I moved Pick to be a snap some time ago, so I'm not likely to change this, I'm afraid.

[Quigsly]

A lot of people are simply not going to use snapd.

Have you heard of Debreate? It's a pretty nice .deb maker.

[stuartlangridge]

Such people are entirely welcome to not use Pick, either, of course; I'm not forcing them to do so. :-)

[thexavier666]

If not snap, can you try flatpak? It's a great alternative to snap.

[stuartlangridge]

I know little about flatpaks, I don't have a need for one, and Pick is primarily aimed at Ubuntu users. But I believe that most flatpak packages aren't published by the original author anyway?

[alexb3d]

Flatpak works similar to Snap, it can be published by the original author or a third party.
I use Ubuntu and I don't use Snap and many people have stopped using it, it is invasive.
It would be highly appreciated to have this app on Flatpak.

[dackdel]

Do consider flatpak.

[spencerpogo]

+1 for flatpak

[tromlet]

I'm a vote for flatpak, as well. Pick is a great app comparatively, very clean interface but Snap is, sadly, far from the ideal application packager. Even some Ubuntu-derived distros (Mint comes to mind) are abandoning Snap for Flatpak. :|

[stuartlangridge]

A flatpak is now available on Flathub, as requested. https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kryogenix.Pick

[alexb3d]

I just tried it, it works excellent.
Thank you very much!

[tromlet]

I just tried it as well, and while the text displays properly on this one, it doesn't seem to play nice with Fedora 34 or multiple monitors. :(

(but I threw you some dosh, because this project rocks and whiners like me should be better about incentivizing developers who do such good work!)

[stuartlangridge]

it doesn't seem to play nice with Fedora 34 or multiple monitors

oh! Pick works fine for me in Fedora Silverblue 35 (I haven't tried it in 34, but I can't think why that would make a difference). Can you (in a separate bug, perhaps) fill in what happens and how it fails, @tromlet ?