To celebrate our recent appearances at SCaLE22x and Framework’s 2.0 Launch Event, we’ll be answering questions in this thread for the next few days. Ask us anything!
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Will Bazzite-deck have a way to unlock GNOME keyring by default after switching to desktop mode?
That would be defeating the purpose. If you don’t want to have to unlock it you can simply set no password.
Very well presented!! Great talk!
Here’s the other great universal blue by @dogphilosopher (and someone else I’m sorry?) talk that was mentioned in the above Bazzite video and apparently came just before it:
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Are you planning to integrate appman or AM into bazzite for appimage management? Or at least listing it in the docs? In my experience this is a way better appimage management tool comparing to e.g. gearlever. Lack of GUI is certainly a drawback, but autoupdates, topgrade integration and support for newer types of appimages is in my opinion in line what bazzite tries to provide.
Other than that what are your opinions about playtron and OpenGamepadUI? Will you try providing a console image with the latter someday?
We are not, Gear Lever will remain until at which time we can drop all AppImage support permanently. Without desktop integration, auto update support, dependency deduplication, and a modern copy of libfuse that isn’t full of security holes they remain something to be avoided when possible.
We love the work that is being done on OpengamepadUI and similar, but Bazzite will remain dependent on Steam for the foreseeable future.
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Yeah I see the point. The AM as well as Gearlever are bandaids and not solutions for the problem of the packaging format, so switching one for the other is kinda meaningless.
I saw some appimages that, at least what devs put in READMEs, work without fuse 2, but that is a exception, not a rule. Nonetheless I think the idea of appimages will prevail or evolve, because people need programs that can be easily installed and cannot be on flathub, e.g. yuzu, so dropping current implementation (not the idea) of appimages is a reasonable take. But it also is the reason that i recommend Appman, because it can handle these newer types and also other types of portable apps, e.g. flatimage
On the topic of OpengamepadUI I know it’s way too early to push it to production, so sticking with Steam is only logical outcome.