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Using Linux and I can't drag and drop things into the app. It just doesn't work. Might be a Wayland issue.

Not being able to drag and drop mean I can't see the tutorial, nor able to replace the light theme, which ends up making this app unusable for me. If it had a settings page or a config file, this would not be a problem.

If you are on Linux, keep this in mind before buying.

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Hello — Are you running Tape from the itch launcher ? There is a known issue that prevents drag and drop functionality that affects MacOS and Windows users. If you run the app independent of itch, it should work as intended.

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Nope. I don't use that launcher. I tried opening the AppImage from Nautilus (the file manager) and directly from the terminal. Both times, the app did not have functional drag and drop with files dragged from Nautilus (the file manager).

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Thank you for reporting this. There are many variants of Linux which makes it difficult to test, and this is the first report we've had of this, so we'll look into it !

My distibution is Fedora.

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Possibly the same issue running it on Arch. Here's the error I get when I run the Appimage:

/tmp/.mount_aerifoIPR5Ef/tape: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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Look, I use linux too, but unless the developer refuses to provide any support at all and is outright hostile, there's really no need for that tone in a comment, there are ways to provide feedback without sounding this dismissive of others people work, specially in smaller projects like this, only so much one can fix and test you know.

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You are right, my tone was harsh. I edited my comment. 

You have to keep in mind that when I wrote that comment, I just had spent 5$ on this tasks organizer that advertised itself as having Linux support and that ended up not working, while, for example, Getting Things GNOME not only works flawlessly on Linux, but is it also free of price and free as in freedom. I felt a little scammed, and I did not want someone else to buy it and be in my situation until the devs fixes it. (Last time the devs updated this is back in 2021 btw)

But you are right, it should not have influenced my tone, and I'm sorry to the devs and anyone else I offended.

X isn't 'deprecated' and pretty much everyone knows that Wayland is not a full replacement yet. Anything that is 3D accelerated (like games) just does not work with Wayland. Also, taking this tone when reporting an issue is just lame and really boring.

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The poster edited their message and also apologised. I came because of this same issue in the hope of seeing an update.

Re Wayland, only nvidia users suffer from gbm, and it has been worked in now on maintained desktops. X has been supplanted for the majority of users for some time, and I have few issues even running dxvk on nvidia. Users with old devices are in trouble, but that is an issue with nvidia, not Wayland.

This is the first report of Tape not working in Linux I remember seeing, so I appreciate being made aware of it. I can look into it but at this time I can't offer an ETA on when that might be. You are welcome to initiate a refund if you prefer.