[enhancement req] Snap Package

[Zap123]

Hello DuckieTV team, have you considered providing a snap(https://snapcraft.io/) package for DuckieTV this way it could gain exposure in the Software Center, it would make it easier to install and available to more distros?

https://pusher.com/sessions/meetup/london-node-user-group/automatically-build-and-publish-node-and-electron-applications-for-linux

https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder

P.S: I'm just a user, I'm not involved with Canonical, it's just that I have to check everytime to see if a new version of DuckieTV is out and download the deb again and again

[Devil505]

A snap or flatpak could be usefull for non-deb distros too.

[Zap123]

DuckieTV has no auto-update mechanism, I prefer a snap version over the deb for this reason.

[ghost]

Snaps are pretty bad atm. Like alpha quality software or worse, they are slow, buggy and theming doesn't work a lot of the time (even the default theme, you use a dialog or filepicker and the whole thing is all deformed). Flatpak seems to be the best choice.

There's https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-docs/blob/master/docs/electron.rst but I couldn't find an example for nwjs.

You can also improvise https://github.com/flathub/com.spotify.Client/blob/master/com.spotify.Client.json#L117

[ghost]

Needs https://github.com/flathub/shared-modules

{
    "app-id": "tv.duckie.DuckieTV",
    "runtime": "org.freedesktop.Platform",
    "runtime-version": "18.08",
    "sdk": "org.freedesktop.Sdk",
    "command": "DuckieTV",
    "finish-args": [
        "--device=dri",
        "--share=network",
        "--share=ipc",
        "--socket=x11",
        "--socket=wayland",
        "--socket=pulseaudio",
        "--filesystem=xdg-config/DuckieTV-Standalone"
    ],
    "modules": [
        "shared-modules/glu/glu-9.0.0.json",
        "shared-modules/udev/udev-175.json",
        {
            "name": "DuckieTV",
            "buildsystem": "simple",
            "build-commands": [
                "tar xvf DuckieTV*.tar.gz",
                "rm DuckieTV-201811280130-linux-x64.tar.gz",
                "mv DuckieTV/* /app/bin",
                "chmod 0755 /app/bin/DuckieTV"
            ],
            "sources": [
                {
                    "type": "file",
                    "url": "https://github.com/DuckieTV/Nightlies/releases/download/nightly-201811280130/DuckieTV-201811280130-linux-x64.tar.gz",
                    "sha256": "2c2ae3724f11ae99eecd568e0495f5942be5cff6bf567272857a784a7afc88b9"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

If the sandbox gives any trouble

"sed -i 's/\"chromium-args\": \"\"/\"chromium-args\": \"--no-sandbox --disable-setuid-sandbox\"/g' /app/bin/package.json"

I'm not a dev but I think it would work just fine. I have no idea how to configure the shortcuts and icons but I did what I could to help

[Zap123]

I've ended up writing the snapcraft.yaml file by myself, seems to work well, but I'll have to try various torrent clients to see if those works and see if it's generally stable.

name: duckietv
version: 1.1.7
grade: stable
summary: 'DuckieTV track your favorite tv-shows with semi-automagic torrent integration'
description: "DuckieTV is an application that takes care of TV-Show addicts by providing a personalized TV-Show calendar.\n"
confinement: strict
base: core18
parts:
    duckietv2:
        plugin: dump
        source: 'https://github.com/SchizoDuckie/DuckieTV.git'
        after:
            - desktop-gnome-platform
        stage-packages:
            - libatomic1
            - libasound2
            - libavahi-client3
            - libavahi-common3
            - libcom-err2
            - libcups2
            - libdatrie1
            - libdbus-1-3
            - libepoxy0
            - libexpat1
            - libffi6
            - libgcrypt20
            - libgmp10
            - libgnutls30
            - libgpg-error0
            - libgraphite2-3
            - libgssapi-krb5-2
            - libgtk-3-0
            - libharfbuzz0b
            - libhogweed4
            - libidn2-0
            - libk5crypto3
            - libkeyutils1
            - libkrb5-3
            - libkrb5support0
            - liblz4-1
            - liblzma5
            - libmount1
            - libnettle6
            - libnspr4
            - libnss3
            - libp11-kit0
            - libpcre3
            - libpixman-1-0
            - libpng16-16
            - libtasn1-6
            - libthai0
            - libunistring2
            - libwayland-client0
            - libwayland-cursor0
            - libwayland-egl1
            - libx11-6
            - libx11-xcb1
            - libxau6
            - libxcb1
            - libxcb-render0
            - libxcb-shm0
            - libxcomposite1
            - libxcursor1
            - libxdamage1
            - libxdmcp6
            - libxext6
            - libxfixes3
            - libxi6
            - libxinerama1
            - libxkbcommon0
            - libxrender1
            - libxss1
            - libxtst6
            - zlib1g
    nwjs:
        plugin: dump
        source: 'https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.43.6/nwjs-v0.43.6-linux-x64.tar.gz'
    desktop-gnome-platform:
        source: 'https://github.com/ubuntu/snapcraft-desktop-helpers.git'
        source-subdir: gtk
        plugin: make
        make-parameters:
            - FLAVOR=gtk3
        build-packages:
            - build-essential
            - libgtk-3-dev
        override-build: "snapcraftctl build\nmkdir -pv $SNAPCRAFT_PART_INSTALL/gnome-platform\n"
apps:
    duckietv:
        command: desktop-launch $SNAP/nw --no-sandbox
        #desktop: usr/share/applications/duckietv.desktop
        environment: 
          TMPDIR: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
          XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP: Unity
          DISABLE_WAYLAND: 1
        plugs:
            - desktop
            - desktop-legacy
            - opengl
            - mount-observe
            - x11
            - wayland
            - network
            - network-bind
            - gsettings
            - browser-support
            - password-manager-service
plugs:
    gnome-3-28-1804:
        interface: content
        target: gnome-platform
        default-provider: 'gnome-3-28-1804:gnome-3-28-1804'
    gtk-3-themes:
        interface: content
        target: $SNAP/data-dir/themes
        default-provider: gtk-common-themes
    icon-themes:
        interface: content
        target: $SNAP/data-dir/icons
        default-provider: gtk-common-themes