Subsurface as a Snap?

Thiago Macieira thiago at macieira.org
Thu Dec 21 12:20:53 PST 2017


On quinta-feira, 21 de dezembro de 2017 13:15:53 -02 Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> Snap is a Canonical effort and as such is receiving at best "lip-service"
> level support from the other distros. FlatPak was very much developed by
> Red Hat as a response to Snap and as a direct competitor. As a result
> (isn't it lovely), neither of them has good support on the other one's
> platform. Even though both of course claim that they do.

Red Hat is contributing new features to Qt in order to support FlatPak, like 
supporting the FlatPak D-Bus portal service to show file dialogs and allow 
selecting of files outside of the sandbox. I have not seen any patch for 
Canonical for Snap.

For that matter, neither for AppImage.

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