Installation without add-apt-repository

[Philip-Scott]

From elementary-tweaks/elementary-tweaks#20, but opening here for discussion. It would be nice to have .deb files to install tweaks without having to add the PPA, and also have a way to add auto-updates to it

[ghost]

We could use flatpak.

Because It's being used by the elementary team.

And the integration with the Appcenter.

[ryonakano]

It would be great if we can provide as Flatpak since providing using PPA sometimes break things like #61 or #68. However, I'm not sure it's possible at the moment because any official plugs are not provided as Flatpak for now. These days elementary devs are working on flatpaking their official apps like Calculator, so these plugs might be also flatpaked in near feature though.

[spirulin]

It would be great if we can provide as Flatpak since providing using PPA sometimes break things like #61 or #68. However, I'm not sure it's possible at the moment because any official plugs are not provided as Flatpak for now. These days elementary devs are working on flatpaking their official apps like Calculator, so these plugs might be also flatpaked in near feature though.

Now that they packed their apps as flatpaks any chance to see tweaks as flatpak?

[ryonakano]

I learned some about Flatpak by flatpaking my apps designed for elementary and felt that it's difficult to flatpak Pantheon Tweaks; we access GSettings of preinstalled apps like Files, Videos, etc. but flatpaking means we lose these access because flatpaked apps are sandboxed. I guess this would be why even elementary don't migrate their System Settings and its Plugs to Flatpak while they do some preinstalled apps.

[quentincaffeino]

Having a flatpak would ve really great since it would allow people like me who don't use elementary but still use pantheon desktop to use this repo without building it themselves.