Flatpak build

[LeandroStanger]

Please, consider supporting Flatpak and publishing Legendary on Flathub.

[hacker1024]

Why, though, when you can get it with PyPi?

[derrod]

To be honest I don't really see a point to this a tthis time. Python packages are relatively lightweight and I try to keep legendary light on dependencies as well. Once Legendary has a GUI it might make more sense for distribution, but that may end up being in an entirely separate repository and project to keep the CLI version lean.

[parcimonic]

Hello everyone. I'm posting here to avoid raising another issue about Flatpak.

I'm working on a flatpaked version of legendary, the main repository is here and the mirror (just in case) is here.

I hope that I made it clear enough in the README section that the Flatpak package is not supported by the main developers of legendary.

The current state of the package is obviously very alpha. Legendary itself works fine, but I'm still working on the wine part. For people that see my comment in this issue, all help is appreciated :D

[derrod]

Given the Steam Deck's reliance on Flatpak for third party app distribution, and the official GUI (when it's finished) benfeitting from this, I'm going to reopen this for now and later move it to the appropiate repository.

[JakobDev]

Legendary is used by HeroicGamesLauncher, whose developer tries to build a flatpak. HeroicGamesLauncher is used by a lot of people to play Games from Epic Games Store. Because Epic Games gives a lot of free Games, a lot of PC Games have already a huge lib there. When SteamDeck arrives we should offer the new user a easy way to play their Games. So it will be good, if we have a working legendary Flatpak, that can be used as base by HeroicGamesLauncher.

[derrod]

The heroic flatpak already includes python and you should be able to just install the legendary PyPI package into it. That would be a much safer way to do that.

[CommandMC]

~~Just looking around a bit, https://gitlab.com/parcimonic/legendary-flatpak (GH Mirror) seems to exist~~ ~~Although this seems to be incomplete for now~~ ~~> If/when this project is more mature, I'll contact derrod and check if we can make this an official supported package.~~

Well, that's what I get for not reading the full thread. Disregard this

[Eric1212]

Unfortually, this package doesn't seems to work with pip3 or my system.

[parcimonic]

Hi everyone. With this PR I'm "finishing" my work on the flatpaking effort.

If someone could have a look at the application manifest and test what works and what doesn't, I'd appreciate it. There is also a GitHub mirror (as pointed by @CommandMC ) here, but the build artifacts (which can be installed to test) are provided on GitLab only.

I don't plan on sending it to Flathub at this moment, but people can contribute and discuss this next step on issue #2.

@derrod if you want to have ownership of the repos just ping me :D

[isopix]

I would prefer to have Legendary without Heroic BloatWare (over 500MB), to use with Rare(5MB Qt client) and BoilR.

[derrod]

Qt is huge on its own, especially once you include QtWebengine. It won't be too far off those 500 MB...

[isopix]

Maybe, like GTK or chromium/electron.

but SteamDeck is built around Qt/KDE Plasma technologies, so there's only 5MB of additional space needed when installing.

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Qt is huge on its own, especially once you include QtWebengine. It won't be too far off those 500 MB...

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