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Package request: Deskflow #54521

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RangHo opened this issue Feb 28, 2025 · 2 comments
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Package request: Deskflow #54521

RangHo opened this issue Feb 28, 2025 · 2 comments
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RangHo commented Feb 28, 2025

Package name

deskflow

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https://deskflow.org/

Description

Deskflow is the official upstream of Synergy.

The current synergy package in Void repository is extremely old and no longer actively maintained. While barrier remained as an alternative, that's no longer true anymore as that project was abandoned with the original maintainer missing.

We have two options now:

  • Deskflow, which is maintained by folks at Synergy with GPLv2 intact,
  • Input Leap, which is the actively maintained fork of Barrier.

I believe it is safe to deprecate both synergy and barrier in favor of deskflow, as it has network-level compatibility with both of them. For now, I'm requesting for deskflow since it is arguably more official and I already have a working template that I've been using for quite a while. (It needs an update, though.)

Note that my version of package template requires both #53691 and #53690 to be merged. If that template looks good enough, then I'll go ahead and make a PR. Let me know what you think about deprecating the old, unmaintained packages, though!

Does the requested package meet the package requirements?

Compiled

Is the requested package released?

Yes

@RangHo RangHo added the request Package request label Feb 28, 2025
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RangHo commented Feb 28, 2025

Oops, I should've created this request earlier... (The template was already tested for a couple days when I created the PRs mentioned above.

@classabbyamp If input-leap is to replace barrier, can we have deskflow replace the original synergy? Last time I tried both programs, I had much better Wayland experience with deskflow.

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