Flatpak unable to find resources files

[chase9]

What happened?

Currently, the flatpak version isn't working as the resources folder is not being included in the build. I've tried including the resources folder in the build a number of ways, but it's pretty finicky. I'm wondering if it would be best for us to write the .service and .timer files in code rather than by copying files. What are your thoughts?

Version

3.5-beta

How did you install Yin & Yang?

Flatpak

What desktop environments are you seeing the problem on?

KDE

Which plugin causes the issue?

None

What software version do you use?

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[chase9]

I spent some time trying to convert the .service system to DBus, but it turns out that there is no way to actually install a .service via flatpak or DBus... In this case, I believe that the only way to get this to work would be to have the application live in the system tray and execute from there.

[l0drex]

Can we install the service files at installation time, and only enable / disable them from script?

[chase9]

As far as I can tell, no. Flatpak only allows us to export a couple of files and a .service file is not one of them. I suppose we could ask users to manually run commands to install a .service if we detect it's not installed.

I think that it would probably be better long term to get rid of the .service files and instead run from the system tray. I think this closer matches other applications behavior.

[chase9]

Resolved in #325