Distributors entering Flatpakland [LWN.net]

Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 11, 2022 12:44 UTC (Mon) by abo (subscriber, #77288)
In reply to: Distributors entering Flatpakland by mbunkus
Parent article: Distributors entering Flatpakland

I don't know how it works, but I've got LibreOffice installed as a Flatpak (from Fedora) and it shows up as multiple applications in GNOME.

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Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 11, 2022 12:50 UTC (Mon) by mbunkus (subscriber, #87248) [Link] (2 responses)

Interesting. I'd like to know how that works, as the LibreOffice Flatpak build file[1] looks pretty standard (albeit huge): one "command" only, no mention of other desktop entries etc.

[1] https://github.com/flathub/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/bl...

Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 11, 2022 20:55 UTC (Mon) by bartoc (guest, #124262) [Link] (1 responses)

I believe there is a default for when you say "flatpak run", however you can install multiple .desktop files that point to different binaries.

Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 11, 2022 21:07 UTC (Mon) by mbunkus (subscriber, #87248) [Link]

Yeah, you're right. The manifest documentation[1] does indeed talk about multiple desktop files per Flatpak. Looks like I assumed "single desktop file" due to the other things (application ID, AppData file, Flatpak icon) only being singular. My bad.

[1] https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/conventions.html#deskt...