• libpopsicle was modified to enable early killing of the device flashing process
• state is reset when switching back to the main view in popsicle-gtk
• popsicle-gtk will revert back to the main view when:
  • Cancel is selected on the device flashing view
  • Back is selected on the summary view
• popsicle-gtk GTK widgets are now Rc'd together

Closes #51

Providing an AppImage would have, among others, these advantages:

• Applications packaged as an AppImage can run on many distributions (including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint, and others)
• One app = one file = super simple for users: just download one AppImage file, make it executable, and run
• No unpacking or installation necessary
• No root needed
• No system libraries changed
• Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed
• Optional desktop integration
• Optional binary delta updates, e.g., for continuous builds (only download the binary diff) using AppImageUpdate
• Can optionally sign your AppImages (inside the file) using gpg2
• Works on Live ISOs
• Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions
• Can be listed in the AppImageHub central directory of available AppImages
• Can double as a self-extracting compressed archive with the --appimage-extract parameter

Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.

I've got a PR in preparation to build AppImages with appimagecraft. As a preparation for that PR, another PR is on the way, fixing the desktop entry you already have in this repository.

Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release):

aaronhoneycutt@pop-os:~/Downloads$ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Pop!_OS" VERSION="18.04 LTS" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 18.04 LTS" VERSION_ID="18.04" HOME_URL="https://system76.com/pop" SUPPORT_URL="http://support.system76.com" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy" VERSION_CODENAME=bionic UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic

Related Application and/or Package Version (run apt policy $PACKAGE NAME):

aaronhoneycutt@pop-os:~/Downloads$ apt policy popsicle-gtk popsicle-gtk: Installed: 0.1.5~1530889767~18.04~2ba9db3 Candidate: 0.1.5~1530889767~18.04~2ba9db3 Version table: *** 0.1.5~1530889767~18.04~2ba9db3 1001 1001 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Issue/Bug Description:

The application freezes after an image is selected and then clicking Next

Steps to reproduce (if you know):

Expected behavior:

Other Notes:

log.txt

It looks like there's been a decent amount of development including fixes and translations since the 1.3.0 release: https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle/compare/1.3.0...master

It'd be nice to have a new release with that for Flathub users. :smile: I can open a release PR shortly, assuming master builds as expected.

The current desktop file contains one error (Categories is supposed to be a list, and all entries must be terminated by a semicolon), and one annoyance (the path in Exec doesn't have to be absolute). This PR fixes both issues.

Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release): NAME="Pop!_OS" VERSION="18.04 LTS" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 18.04 LTS" VERSION_ID="18.04" HOME_URL="https://system76.com/pop" SUPPORT_URL="http://support.system76.com" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy" VERSION_CODENAME=bionic UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic

Related Application and/or Package Version (run apt policy $PACKAGE NAME): popsicle: Installed: 0.1.5~1526005323~18.04~9254724 Candidate: 0.1.5~1526005323~18.04~9254724 Version table: *** 0.1.5~1526005323~18.04~9254724 1001 1001 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Issue/Bug Description: Popsicle allows writing a bigger image than the capacity of the USB without warning the user.

Expected behavior: A prompt should appear saying that this operation cannot be done since the size of the image is bigger than the USB.

• Background threads will be created which will run authenticated tasks.
• The main thread will use Linux syscalls to downgrade permissions.
• A channel will be used to request information from the authenticated threads.

This may fix the issue of launching Popsicle on a Wayland session. The main thread will initially spawn as root via pkexec or sudo, and will spawn background threads that will remain as root to perform authenticated tasks in the background. After spawning the background threads, permissions are downgraded back to a normal user before initializing GTK, and the UI will run entirely as a normal user.

Fixes #16

This PR will work to address all open issues regarding the GTK front end, and then some, with additional abstraction work to minimize the GTK work.

• [x] Closes #18
• [x] Closes #19
• [x] Closes #20
• [x] Closes #21
• [x] Closes #23
• [x] Closes #24
• [x] Closes #25
• [x] Closes #26

Internal hard drive is being recognized as a usb device making the -a flag not work properly.

Error message:

unmounting '/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:12:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0': "/dev/sdc1" is mounted at "/media/[redacted]/Pop_OS 17.10 amd64"
muff: error opening disk '/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:14:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0': No medium found (os error 123)

Disks info of drive:

Any idea why this is going on?

It is a little bit annoying that popcicle start on it's own when using fastboot. especially when i just want to boot from a file and not flashing it. Could you make popcicle staying out of the way when using android platform tools. Plus I never installed it myself it must have come along with an update, ( I'm using popos ), I wasn't even aware of it untill it shows by itself. Sorry, I don't mean bad words, just annoyed.

Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release):

VERSION="20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.10"
VERSION_ID="20.10"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=groovy
UBUNTU_CODENAME=groovy

Related Application and/or Package Version (run flatpak info com.system76.Popsicle):

Popsicle - Flash multiple USB devices in parallel

          ID: com.system76.Popsicle
         Ref: app/com.system76.Popsicle/x86_64/stable
        Arch: x86_64
      Branch: stable
     Version: 1.2.0
     License: MIT
      Origin: flathub
  Collection: org.flathub.Stable
Installation: system
   Installed: 2.7 MB
     Runtime: org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/19.08
         Sdk: org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/19.08

      Commit: c0b17a95c21ef3c2a0f6adc76286ba85c6bb812e477ca2ce40550201ef8acf4a
      Parent: b15dc13a1eb4981a4e4bf197497e015407256607ee9f28e42e62c22ed232e2ca
     Subject: Set <icon> tag of appdata (a26e606e)
        Date: 2020-10-28 23:04:00 +0000

Issue/Bug Description: Flatpak version of Popsicle does not have a desktop file. Therefore, it cannot be found in the application menu/grid and can only be run using flatpak run com.system76.Popsicle or by launching it from something like GNOME Software.

Steps to reproduce (if you know):

1. Install the Popsicle Flatpak
2. Navigate to application menu/grid
3. Try to find "USB Flasher" or "Popsicle"
4. It does not exist

Expected behavior: There should be a desktop file that shows up in the application menu/grid.

Other Notes: I have restarted the system already but that did not do anything.

I'm not entirely sure if this is feasible, especially in the Flatpak sandbox, but a common way I use Popsicle is to flash an image from a download when I have a matching .sha256 file alongside the image. It would be handy if Popsicle could detect if that file exists and either automatically try to verify the image, or at least auto-fill the hash to be checked from the shasum file.

This adds a GitHub Actions workflow to test the Flatpak build; this can ensure future changes don't break the Flatpak build. Requires a Flatpak manifest, e.g. from #187

It's strange to me that Popsicle is branded "Popsicle" on GitHub and Flathub, but the resulting app that's installed is called "USB Flasher," making it non-obvious to find the app after installation. I presume this was done so the app installed on Pop!_OS would be more obvious, but it means people who have sought it out on Flathub have a worse experience. I would recommend:

• Renaming consistently to "Popsicle USB Flasher" on Flathub and the .desktop file for consistency, or
• Carrying a patched .desktop on Pop!_OS to show the generic name instead so people who install from Flathub get the expected app name

We're using Popsicle at the Endless OS Foundation to make copies of drives used to install Flatpak'd learning apps in offline or limited connectivity deployments. Currently, our process looks like:

1. Use flatpak create-usb to prepare one USB drive, which takes a lot of time due to downloading all the apps and dependencies, compressing them, and writing them to the drive.
2. Create an .img of that drive
3. Use Popsicle to copy that .img to several additional drives

It could be handy to use Popsicle more like a disk duplicator, where it could read the contents of one drive and copy them bit-for-bit to additional drives, cutting out that middle step.

Pop_OS! 22.04 the popsicle application does not install Windows 10. Popsicle leads to the galp3 getting a "press any key to boot from DVD.." followed by a return. Restoring image with gnome disks does not work, when Windows 10 installation starts it says can not locate media drivers. I suspect it is the file system.

The installation ISO is over 4 gigabytes now, meaning that one has to be able to format it to the exFAT file system. Trying to do this without lollipop I tried sudo add-apt-repository universe sudo apt-install exfat-fuse Open the Gnome Disks application, format your USB to exFAT.

I read online that I could copy and paste the ISO into the USB now but that does not work for me. I also tried Ventoy2Disk which I found interesting with it's Web interface but it does not format.