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  • score

    ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts

    That's also a big reason why I prefer appimages.

    ossia score's AppImage is 100 megabytes: https://github.com/ossia/score/releases/tag/v3.2.0

    Inside, there's:

    - Qt 6 (core, widgets, gui, network, qml, qtquick, serial port, websockets and a few others) and all its dependencies excluding xcb (so freetype, harfbuzz, etc. which I build with fairly more recent versions than many distros provide)

    - ffmpeg 6

    - libllvm & libclang

    - the faust compiler (https://faust.grame.fr)

    - many random protocol & hardware bindings / implementations and their dependencies (sdl)

    - portaudio

    - ysfx

    with Flatpak I'd be looking at telling my users to install a couple GB (which is not acceptable, I was already getting comments that "60 MB are too much" when it was 60 MB a few years ago).

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  • JetBrainsRuntime

    Runtime environment based on OpenJDK for running IntelliJ Platform-based products on Windows, macOS, and Linux

    Here you can see the work being done on IntelliJ Wayland:

    https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime/issues/242

    https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-3206/Native-Wayland...

  • AppImageLauncher

    Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages

    There aren't centralized solutions that I know of, but there are projects such as AppImageLauncher[1] that can provide some automated management of that. It's not perfect but it is helpful.

    [1]: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

  • OpenTabletDriver

    Open source, cross-platform, user-mode tablet driver

    Why didn't the author use opentabletdriver, it would have fixed most issues he had with the graphic tablets. It works on Wayland too.

    https://opentabletdriver.net/

  • faust

    Functional programming language for signal processing and sound synthesis (by grame-cncm)

    That's also a big reason why I prefer appimages.

    ossia score's AppImage is 100 megabytes: https://github.com/ossia/score/releases/tag/v3.2.0

    Inside, there's:

    - Qt 6 (core, widgets, gui, network, qml, qtquick, serial port, websockets and a few others) and all its dependencies excluding xcb (so freetype, harfbuzz, etc. which I build with fairly more recent versions than many distros provide)

    - ffmpeg 6

    - libllvm & libclang

    - the faust compiler (https://faust.grame.fr)

    - many random protocol & hardware bindings / implementations and their dependencies (sdl)

    - portaudio

    - ysfx

    with Flatpak I'd be looking at telling my users to install a couple GB (which is not acceptable, I was already getting comments that "60 MB are too much" when it was 60 MB a few years ago).

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