<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> </head> <body> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"></style> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <p><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span>I have</span> <span>the same interest.</span> <span>As</span> <span>Brent</span> <span>said</span> <span>I</span> <span>also</span> <span>think they</span> <span>use a</span> <span>portable</span> <span>file</span> <span>AppImage</span> <span>and no one can</span> <span>force a</span> <span>project</span> <span>to use</span> <span>X</span> <span>or Y</span> <span>technology,</span> <span> but the reasons</span> <span>they gave</span> <span>me</span> <span>greatly</span> <span>caught my attention</span><span>, because if</span> <span>you can distribute</span> <span>an application like</span> <span>VLC</span> <span>as</span> <span>Flatpak</span><span>, many</span> <span>third-party developers</span> <span>would be interested</span> <span>to be a</span> <span>common use case</span> <span>for</span> <span>cross-platform applications</span> <span>(Ex</span><span>.</span> <span>Media</span> <span>Player</span><span>, Video</span> <span>Editor</span><span>, Video</span> <span class="">Transcoder</span><span class="">,</span> Web Browser, <span class="">etc</span><span class="">)</span><span class="">. <br> <br> </span></span><span tabindex="-1" id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span>I asked if</span> <span class="">there is</span> <span>a thread</span> <span>on this topic</span> <span> to VLC developers</span><span class=""></span><span class="">,</span> <span class=""> but not yet</span> <span>receive a response</span><span>.</span></span><br> <br> </p> <div id="Signature">CJT </div> </div> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>De:</b> xdg-app <xdg-app-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org> en nombre de Alberto Ruiz <aruiz@gnome.org><br> <b>Enviado:</b> lunes, 13 de junio de 2016 08:33:22 p. m.<br> <b>Para:</b> Brent Fox<br> <b>Cc:</b> Charles Johnson; xdg-app@lists.freedesktop.org<br> <b>Asunto:</b> Re: Is it possible to use Flatpak in applications such as VLC Media Player?</font> <div> </div> </div> <div> <div dir="ltr">I'd be interested to understand the Flatpak developers' point of view on this. I'd say VLC should be in one of the top 5 use cases for Flatpak to cover, is one of the most used open source apps aside from the browsers realm. It'd be really bad press if VLC is out and a shame if VLC falls down the cracks just because we didn't communicate properly with the developers on time.</div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">2016-06-13 20:06 GMT+01:00 Brent Fox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brent@endlessm.com" target="_blank">brent@endlessm.com</a>></span>:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div><br> </div> <div>I have been in touch with Jean-Baptiste Kempf at VideoLAN and got the same response. He told me that they are looking at AppImage instead. </div> <div><br> </div> <div>--Brent</div> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"> <div> <div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div dir="ltr"><span> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(96,96,96);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.........................................................................</span></p> <br> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#444444">Brent Fox</font></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(96,96,96);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> | </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="tel:%2B1.919.274.7381" value="+19192747381" target="_blank">+1.919.274.7381</a></span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(96,96,96);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> | </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(122,122,122);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://endlessm.com/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Endless</a></span></p> </span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <br> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div> <div class="h5">On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Charles Johnson <span dir="ltr"> <<a href="mailto:charlesjohnsont@outlook.com" target="_blank">charlesjohnsont@outlook.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> </div> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div> <div class="h5"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <p><span lang="en"><span>Well,</span> <span>I ask the question</span> <span>because</span> <span>of curiosity,</span> <span>I contacted</span> <span>VLC</span> <span>developers</span> <span>to</span> <span>know if they are</span> <span>interested in distributing VLC as a </span><span>Flatpak</span> <span></span><span></span><span>package</span> <span> in the future</span><span>, however</span> <span>Felix Paul Kühne answer</span> <span> was:<br> <br> </span></span><span lang="en"><span></span></span></p> <div>"We are certainly interesting in providing VLC as a cross-distribution binary package for Linux. However, flatpak is not suitable for VLC at this point, as it doesn’t allow DVD, BlurRay or DVB playback and the flatpak developers are unwilling to fix those limitations of their approach."<br> <br> <span lang="en"><span>Especially</span> <span>the last line</span> <span>caught my</span> <span>attention.</span> <span>that's true? <div> <div dir="ltr" style="zoom:1"><span lang="en"><span>I have not</span> <span>been able to find</span> <span>a discussion thread</span> <span>about it</span> <span>and understand that</span> <span>Flatpak</span> <span>is a framework that</span> <span>is in active development</span> <span>and not yet</span> <span>has all the</span> <span>features expected</span><span>.</span></span><br> </div> </div> </span></span></div> <span lang="en"><span></span></span><br> <p>Thank you<br> </p> <p></p> <p><br> </p> <div>CJT </div> </div> </div> <br> </div> </div> _______________________________________________<br> xdg-app mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:xdg-app@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">xdg-app@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg-app" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg-app</a><br> <br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> <br> _______________________________________________<br> xdg-app mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:xdg-app@lists.freedesktop.org">xdg-app@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg-app" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg-app</a><br> <br> </blockquote> </div> <br> <br clear="all"> <div><br> </div> -- <br> <div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Cheers,<br> Alberto Ruiz</div> </div> </div> </body> </html>