Request: Custom builds of `org.gnome.Platform` so users can --runtime=... to use this in Flatpak apps

[ssokolow]

What should be patched?

Publish a Flatpak runtime package (ideally on Flathub where you can leverage their bot for automatic update PRs and their CI/CD build infrastructure) which contains releases of org.gnome.Platform with the gtk3-classic patches applied.

This would enable users to update their launchers with a --runtime=packageName argument to opt into the gtk3-classic version as described with other intentions at https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/tips-and-tricks.html

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The build control files for upstream org.gnome.Platform are stored at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta

While I don't have any experience with building runtimes, I do maintain the I Have No Tomatoes package on Flathub, and I did the work to set up the PySolFC flatpak before handing it off to PySolFC upstream, in case anyone has questions.

(...and it looks like I'll have to poke someone about some kind of hiccup in their bot infrastructure failing to poke me and PySolFC upstream with a PR for the new runtime version on those two packages.)

[lah7]

More than happy for anyone to create/fork and maintain a Flatpak runtime with these patches if they're up to the task.

For me, I'm completely uninterested. As they say, I wouldn't touch with a barge-pole (🇬🇧)

[ssokolow]

I'll see how things go in the coming months. Right now, I'm just focused on clearing out TODOs for the holidays.