Archive Editor

A small GNOME / GTK4 / libadwaita app for adding anime, game, and review entries to the absolking-archive personal website project.

Prerequisites

You need Flatpak and flatpak-builder installed, plus the GNOME 50 runtime and SDK. On Arch:

sudo pacman -S flatpak flatpak-builder
flatpak install --user flathub org.gnome.Platform//50 org.gnome.Sdk//50

(If you don't have Flathub set up: flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo)

Build & install (one command)

From this folder:

flatpak-builder --user --install --force-clean build-dir io.github.absolking.ArchiveEditor.json

That produces a build in build-dir/ and installs the app. From now on it shows up in your application launcher as Archive Editor.

Run

From your launcher, or:

flatpak run io.github.absolking.ArchiveEditor

Uninstall

flatpak uninstall --user io.github.absolking.ArchiveEditor

Iterating during development

After editing source files, rebuild & reinstall the same way:

flatpak-builder --user --install --force-clean build-dir io.github.absolking.ArchiveEditor.json

The first build downloads the SDK; subsequent ones are fast (just copying files).

File layout

• io.github.absolking.ArchiveEditor.json — Flatpak manifest
• io.github.absolking.ArchiveEditor.desktop — desktop launcher
• io.github.absolking.ArchiveEditor.metainfo.xml — AppStream metadata
• io.github.absolking.ArchiveEditor.svg — app icon
• archive-editor — shell launcher (becomes /app/bin/archive-editor)
• src/main.py — entry point
• src/application.py — Adw.Application subclass
• src/window.py — main window UI
• src/archive_logic.py — file I/O, no GUI deps

Permissions

The app is sandboxed but has --filesystem=home so it can read & write your project folder anywhere under $HOME. If you'd like to restrict it further, edit the manifest's finish-args.