Signal on Desktop survey?
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On this forum there is open discussion about Taking ownership of Signal Flatpak, but in my humble opinion, we need to have some measurements, before we can be taken more seriously by Signal desktop team. Can you please answer to bellow questions. Thank you. Which Signal on phone are you using: poll Which Signal on desktop are you using: poll Which method of installation are you using on Signal on desktop? poll If you are using Singal on Linux, on which Linux distribution you are using S...

There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak.

This will make Signal show up in the verified subsection of Flathub, it will improve trust, allow a central place for bug reports and support and ease maintenance.

Flatpak works on pretty much all Distros, including the ones covered by their current “Linux = Ubuntu” .deb repo.

To make a good decision, we need to have some statistics about who uses which package.

  • 2xsaiko
    14·
    10 months ago

    I don’t care about the packaging format so much as about either having a Qt or GTK version or even just being able to open it in my browser.

    • Vincent@feddit.nl
      51·
      10 months ago

      There is Flare. I haven’t used it myself because it’s not official and I don’t know what it will do to e.g. my backups, but just sharing in case you’re interested.

      • 2xsaiko
        1·
        10 months ago

        I’ll try it out and see how it works.

    • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
      15·
      10 months ago

      Well, the .deb only works on Ubuntu and derivates so that doesnt really matter

        • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
          42·
          10 months ago

          I didnt get your scentence. Yes I agree having a native Qt/Slint version would be cool. But the code still needs to be packaged for distros and Electron is horrible but solves like everything for them.