SubtitleEdit as a snap or an appimage

[shag00]

I know this question has been made before but the problems associated with installing Mono to run SubtitleEdit on Linux are very significant. Mono may work acceptably on a PC where it used primarily for programming but on a general purpose PC it causes endless problems.

My latest episode, I installed a few libraries for message notifications and it completely borked Mono resulting in SubtitleEdit being unusable again, will require a full system reinstall to fix. A complete removal and reinstallation of Mono did not fix the problem. On top of that Mono only delivers core functionality anyway. A numbers of buttons are blank, search and replace does not work and there are issues of focus not being applied correctly.

[Gzushgshsh]

There is a snap package, but it's from an older version Subtitle Edit snap 3.5.13-1 Initial beta

The problems with the WinForms user interface should only be solved if the mono developers pay attention to their WinForms implementation again or if the SubtitleEdit user interface is redone with something else

[Gzushgshsh]

I'm trying to redo SubtitleEdit with GTK# and dotnet 8, but it's still in its initial state, and it'll be a while before it's usable.

@niksedk Comment about MAUI, maybe in the future there will be some news about a user interface with maui

[shag00]

@Gzushgshsh
thanks for your reply. There's also an Appimage from around the same time floating around also. If Winforms can ever be conquered by the Mono developers may be a bridge to far.

The privately released Linux versions are a problem in that they are once only event with no support. Things like Tesseract improve all the time and who knows how to change a Snap to access the new libraries?

I hope dotnet 8 takes a backseat as Mono does not support it.

I think the real question though is why, in light of prior individual efforts, can an official Appimage or Snap not be made available? Obviously it's possible.

[Heavygrass]

Hi,
My vote for a Linux port also.
Just would strongly prefer Appimage/deb over Snap (actually many people don't like Snap).