Provide Snap package

[phw]

Having a Snap package will it make easy to install Peek and also takes care of the dependency issues regarding ffmpeg and imagemagick.

I have done some initial work on it, after it looked to be quite easy. There is a snapcraft.yml file and snap packages get automatically build on Launchpad.

Unfortunately it turned out to be not quite as easy with bundling ffmpeg and imagemagick. Open issues that should be solved:

• ImageMagick does not find the configuration installed under /etc/ImageMagick-6/. There is a workaround to load it from the provided home folder instead, but this is not ideal
• ImageMagick does not run and complains about missing delegate, even once it has loaded the configuration
• The package size is very large (~ 100MB), especially for an application as small as Peek. Maybe this can be reduced a bit by removing unneeded things and providing custom builds of ImageMagick and ffmpeg with only what is actually required.
• Access org.freedesktop.FileManager1 DBus service in strict mode or find alternative solution to open file manager
• Access org.gnome.Shell.Screencast DBus service in strict mode for recording under Gnome Shell even in Wayland.
• Snap does not detect global menu setting on Unity
• Handle "prefer-dark-theme" setting. Basically copy the solution from [data/flatpak/launch-peek](https://github.com/phw/peek/blob/master/data/flatpak/launch-peek]

[phw]

Imagesize is now down to about 66 MB and everything is running in devmode.

If using strict mode the app just hangs when stopping the recording without any output, post processing does not start and there is not file chooser shown. Also no output in /var/log/syslog . Not sure what is happening or how to debug.

[phw]

If somebody wants to try snap packages are built regularly at https://code.launchpad.net/~phw/+snap/peek-daily

[Ads20000]

@phw Wow! Great that you're trying to support Flatpak, AppImage, and Snap!

And if it's working in devmode could you upload your master branch as Snaps to an Edge channel on the Snappy store (there's probably a switch for this in Launchpad)? Then anyone could install it with sudo snap install --edge --devmode peek and it would stay automatically updated so we wouldn't need to redownload it every new build :)

[popey]

Agree with @Ads20000 this is fantastic! If you can push directly to the store, we can certainly get more testing done. I tested the snap here and it works well, so thank you so much for the work you've done so far!

[phw]

I have enabled publishing to the store into edge, should be available once the current build is finished :)

For what is missing I am unsure. If I run in strict mode if you click stop it just never shows the save dialog and never starts the post processing. And absolutely no output, not even something about missing permissions in syslog. I had no time to look into this in more detail so far, but I just build it using this snapcraft.yaml which does not yet add any permissions.

@popey: When you say you tested the app and it works, it was also in devmode, right?

Great that you're trying to support Flatpak, AppImage, and Snap!

I have no strict preferences, but I see how important it is to let users access the app as easy as possible :) I gave this kind of a race with the goal to support at least one of those for Peek 1.0. Flatpak made it, Snap had some troubles just before the finishing line and AppImage still confuses me ;)

[phw]

Looks like this will take some time until it hits the store. There is a manual review required for some reason. I will keep you updated.

[popey]

I've rejected the first upload in the store to allow the review to move to the next release you uploaded. Which wasn't the right move, sorry. I'll sort this. :)

[phw]

@popey Sorry, we probably had bad timing, as I just had pushed some unrelated changes and the build triggered again. At least I got both the unblock and the review reqiured mails. I have now pushed another change from which I think it will not trigger the review. I think the dbus slot I added for testing is unneeded but causes the review, see 50af73a

[popey]

Ok, awesome. I'll keep an eye out for it.

[popey]

ok, looks like the review passed and they're ready to publish.

[phw]

Published on Edge. I have not yet tested it myself.

[popey]

I have. It works. For anyone else who wants to try:-

snap install peek --edge --devmode is the magic.