Package as Flatpak for elementary OS 6

[danirabbit]

As you might have heard, AppCenter is going Flatpak! For elementary OS 6, we will not longer be accepting Debian packaging, so your app will need to be updated.

We have documentation on our developer guide for writing your Flatpak manifest here: https://docs.elementary.io/develop/writing-apps/our-first-app/packaging#flatpak-manifest

Also, in case you missed it, elementary OS 6 beta 2 is now available. This is a great time to get your app packaged up as Flatpak and test that everything is working before the final release. AppCenter submission for OS 6 will be open soon, so don't delay :)

[diogopessoa]

Hi David, will Clipped be released for elementary OS 6? Or already have plans to make it native to the system?

greentings

[davidmhewitt]

As an update on this, I need to find a good chunk of time to do some more in-depth investigation on porting this to Flatpak.

The way Clipped used to set up a global keybinding almost definitely won't (and shouldn't) work inside a sandboxed Flatpak. I consider that to be one of the more important features of Clipped, and I'm not going to release a new version for elementary OS 6.0 until I've found a way to make sure the user experience is not too badly impacted.

[thomasaull]

@davidmhewitt Maybe you can check the source on how Clips is doing it. It's a really cool app, but I prefer the simplicity of clipped and I miss it everyday since upgrading to eOS6 😅

https://github.com/hezral/clips

[ashkanRmk]

@davidmhewitt we still waiting for Clipped in eOS6 ...