I'm not sure how many distribution methods we would want to officially support, as that adds a lot of overhead and work for the Pinta maintainers. But this would be great for someone in the community to work on, similar to the existing Flatpak / Snap packages.

I see! It would, I know nothing of packaging but would certainly help with testing if needed :) Hopefully we'll see one in the future.

Suggestion #470 was marked as a duplicate of this suggestion.

See also https://groups.google.com/g/pinta-project/c/p4S7VZzJ7G4/m/PGN0yxLcCQAJ

Also note that with the GTK3 version of Pinta, the .NET runtime can easily be bundled to produce a more standalone executable (this is the case for https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/releases/tag/dev-preview-builds), although that still would require the GTK3 libs to be installed on the system.

I'm not sure how many distribution methods we would want to officially support, as that adds a lot of overhead and work for the Pinta maintainers. But this would be great for someone in the community to work on, similar to the existing Flatpak / Snap packages.

If there is a limited number of distribution methods then I suggest removing support for Flatpak or Snap in order to add support for Appimage.