Would a contribution to the docs about native distribution with flatpak be accepted? To even bother ...

# compose-desktop

[Abdelilah El Aissaoui]

Would a contribution to the docs about native distribution with flatpak be accepted? To even bother writing it or not 😛 It would allow to support tons of linux distros compared to the limited .deb currently allowed by jpackage.
Adding a dedicated section for flatpak here:
https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/tree/master/tutorials/Native_distributions_and_local_execution

[Big Chungus]

Doesn't jpackage already support AppImage for general linux distribution?

[Abdelilah El Aissaoui]

Uses the same name but apparantly it's a different format 😅

[Abdelilah El Aissaoui]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61612710/using-jpackage-to-make-an-appimage

[Big Chungus]

Blimey! No wonder I couldn't get it to work 😀

[Big Chungus]

Was trying for an entirely different thing!

[Abdelilah El Aissaoui]

I had the exact same issue 😄 The naming is very confusing

[Big Chungus]

Yeah, flatpack support for CfD would be awesome. Maybe the plugin could even generate it for us from jpackage app-image output

[Big Chungus]

Similar to how the linked SO suggests to get AppImage

[Big Chungus]

If you could write up some documentation on how to do it manually I could try raising a PR against CfD gradle plugin to automate it.

[Abdelilah El Aissaoui]

Not sure how easy would be to automate it (since it requires to have flatpak install + the required runtime), or if it even makes sense because you usually want to deploy the JAR with the config flatpak config files, but I'll write an example of how to do it. If it's not accepted for the official docs, I guess I'll write some kind of blog post for ppl interested in the future