KDE's Discover Snap Support Is Maturing Too

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Phoronix: KDE's Discover Snap Support Is Maturing Too

While KDE Discover's Flatpak support was declared "production ready", that isn't the only app sandboxing tech they are working on: their Ubuntu Snap support is also coming together nicely...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Discover-Snap-Weekly

[Guest]

I'm super uninterested in Snap or Flatpak. All I want in Discover is good integration with AppImage. Basically I don't want to open 10 different sites to download the AppImages.

[boxie]

I'm super uninterested in Snap or Flatpak. All I want in Discover is good integration with AppImage. Basically I don't want to open 10 different sites to download the AppImages.

if they can get all 3 working and enforce the AppImage sandboxing, that'd be awesome

To be fair though, i don't really care which underlying tech an app uses, as long as it works flawlessly

[Up123]

I use Flatpak and Snap mostly for proprietary apps like e.g. Skype, Discord and hopefully soon Steam. I really like both solutions and in the end it doesn't matter as long as they are sandboxed and uptodate, I'm slowly starting to use it for FOSS aswell

[Serafean]

Last time I tried, any such "bundled" software completely ignored desktop customization (such as dark Qt theme). Is that better now?

For proprietary software, I'll take it as a necessary evil, but it'll never replace a good package manager.

[mike44]

Yes the krita appimage didn't show in menus and I didn't know where to put, apart leaving it within downloads.

[Brophen]

Cool, i love snaps. Make my life easier which is always a good thing

[eggbert]

Discover appears not to work with pacman as a backend.

[ngraham]

Hi everyone, I'm the author.

On the subject of AppImage, I'm going to write another post on that subject, but the long and short of it is that AppImage deliberately does not require Discover or anything like it to work. You manage AppImages with your file manager, just like app bundles on macOS, if anyone is familiar with that platform.

@eggbert: pacman is an Arch-specific package manager, and Discover most certainly does work for Arch using the PackageKit backend. In fact, the lead developer does all his development work and testing on Arch. If it's not working for you, please file a bug: https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Discover

[Awesomeness]

On the subject of AppImage, I'm going to write another post on that subject, but the long and short of it is that AppImage deliberately does not require Discover or anything like it to work. You manage AppImages with your file manager, just like app bundles on macOS, if anyone is familiar with that platform.

Funny you mention macOS because in the days before the Mac App Store there was an update framework called Sparkle. It was actually an ingenious idea: It used a podcast-derived XML file (AppCast) to announce updates. Such a thing combined with an AppCast directory would deliver what he wants.