A few days ago I returned home from a wonderful Plasma sprint in Graz, Austria. Between COVID-19 and there being no Plasma sprint last year in favor of the Goals mega-sprint, this was actually only my my third in-person Plasma sprint! So I was very excited to attend. There’s much to talk about!
@ngraham, is there a reason that such a store seems necessary, atop what distributions’ package managers and their associated verification procedures provide (or even something like pip3, at worst)?
Strictly speaking, very little is necessary, and this is definitely included.
However, it’s convenient to have a single distribution source for add-ons, the same way it’s convenient to use FlatHub as a single distribution source for apps. Going through one of these channels ensures that you as the developer are in control of the release cadence, and you aren’t dependent on the mercy of 50 overworked packagers in 50 distros doing redundant work. Imagine if you made a new Plasma theme and had to wait two years before anyone in Debian could use it — if it even got packaged at all!
Apologies, @ngraham… In retrospect, I suppose that should have been obvious. All the more reason why the section about ascertaining whether these can be packaged with flatpak would be wonderful! Very clever.