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[GH-ISSUE #1021] KDE is a very large dependency #809

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opened 2026-05-05 07:10:26 -06:00 by gitea-mirror · 4 comments

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2026-05-05 07:10:26 -06:00

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Originally created by @RojjaCebolla on GitHub (Jan 11, 2021).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/1021

Hey y'all, I already got Barrier working, so this is no big deal, but just a heads up:

I had barrier installed with apt on ubuntu, and it mysteriously stopped working one day. So I put up with it for a long time, I started sending myself messages over Signal when i needed to move something between computers A and B.

When I noticed that barrier is available on Flathub, I thought that was pretty cool, so I tried to install it. However, my HDD is almost all partitioned as /home, because prior to snap+flathub, 20 GiB is tons more space than I'll ever need for the root partition. As you might imagine, having a few snaps & flatpaks on here means that there wasn't enough room for Barrier. Barrier's not big at all, but that KDE dependency is half a gig or so. Maybe qt would be good enough instead?

Ended up reinstalling Barrier the normal way so that i could apt purge, and then it worked fine upon re-reinstall. So I'm good to go for now. Just thought I'd pop in and say that Barrier is great, love using it, and I'd love to use the flatpak if it got a little smaller. Maybe other small-partition folks are out there too. 😁

Originally created by @RojjaCebolla on GitHub (Jan 11, 2021). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/1021 Hey y'all, I already got Barrier working, so this is no big deal, but just a heads up: I had barrier installed with `apt` on ubuntu, and it mysteriously stopped working one day. So I put up with it for a long time, I started sending myself messages over Signal when i needed to move something between computers A and B. When I noticed that barrier is available on Flathub, I thought that was pretty cool, so I tried to install it. However, my HDD is almost all partitioned as `/home`, because prior to snap+flathub, 20 GiB is tons more space than I'll ever need for the root partition. As you might imagine, having a few snaps & flatpaks on here means that there wasn't enough room for Barrier. Barrier's not big at all, but that KDE dependency is half a gig or so. Maybe qt would be good enough instead? Ended up reinstalling Barrier the normal way so that i could `apt purge`, and then it worked fine upon re-reinstall. So _I'm_ good to go for now. Just thought I'd pop in and say that Barrier is great, love using it, and I'd love to use the flatpak if it got a little smaller. Maybe other small-partition folks are out there too. 😁

gitea-mirror commented

2026-05-05 07:10:30 -06:00

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@p12tic commented on GitHub (Jan 11, 2021):

@shymega Do you know whether it's us who maintain the flatpack package? I see stuff related to snap packaging in the source code.

@p12tic commented on GitHub (Jan 11, 2021): @shymega Do you know whether it's us who maintain the flatpack package? I see stuff related to snap packaging in the source code.

gitea-mirror commented

2026-05-05 07:10:32 -06:00

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@shymega commented on GitHub (Jun 13, 2021):

@p12tic Sorry for the late reply. Catching up. I maintain it, Adrian transferred it to me. Adrian still has full control/ownership over the Snap, but I've been added as a co-maintainer to it.

@shymega commented on GitHub (Jun 13, 2021): @p12tic Sorry for the late reply. Catching up. I maintain it, Adrian transferred it to me. Adrian still has full control/ownership over the Snap, but I've been added as a co-maintainer to it.

gitea-mirror commented

2026-05-05 07:10:33 -06:00

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@steffendietz commented on GitHub (Mar 14, 2022):

Hi, are there any plans to update the flathub release to the newest one?

@steffendietz commented on GitHub (Mar 14, 2022): Hi, are there any plans to update the flathub release to the newest one?

gitea-mirror commented

2026-05-05 07:10:36 -06:00

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@shymega commented on GitHub (Mar 14, 2022):

No, I've stepped down from the Flatpak. I and @p12tic aren't involved with Barrier as maintainers anymore. I did open an issue calling for volunteers on the Flatpak, but both that and the Snap are now unmaintained.

@shymega commented on GitHub (Mar 14, 2022): No, I've stepped down from the Flatpak. I and @p12tic aren't involved with Barrier as maintainers anymore. I did open an issue calling for volunteers on the Flatpak, but both that and the Snap are now unmaintained.

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