<html><head></head><body>Yes, it is possible to have multiple version of the same application installed at the same time.<br><br>In addition, the updates come from a repo and can be updated along with everything else.on your system via Discover or gnome software. Or, from the CLI using "flatpak update".<br><br>I've worked on quite a few flatpak applications, RawTherapee, darktable, and geeqie, and I find that once the initial packaging is done, it is quite easy to maintain over time.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 24, 2020 10:44:35 AM PDT, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div dir="auto">Is it possible to have few flatpaks of digiKam at the same time? I find appimages handy to test new builds because they are just files in a folder and I can pick which one to launch at any given time. </div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:41 AM Gilles Caulier <<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">yes, i can, but the changes are limited.. File is here :<br>
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<a href="https://invent.kde.org/packaging/flatpak-kde-applications/-/blob/master/org.kde.digikam.json" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://invent.kde.org/packaging/flatpak-kde-applications/-/blob/master/org.kde.digikam.json</a><br>
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Gilles Caulier<br>
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Le dim. 24 mai 2020 à 18:05, Andrey Goreev <<a href="mailto:aegoreev@gmail.com" target="_blank">aegoreev@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br>
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> Will you be able to modify the flatpak build script if needs be though?<br>
> I noticed with appimage you can quickly rebuild to see if a commit fixed a bug but I am not sure if that will work with flatpak.<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
> Andrey<br>
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> On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 9:58 AM Gilles Caulier <<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" target="_blank">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> yes, another one.<br>
>><br>
>> In fact, the FlatPak choice was done by KDE team, in favor than<br>
>> AppImage. As KDE provide the infrastructure to build the bundle, it's<br>
>> more simple to deploy.<br>
>><br>
>> You must know that all bundles, AppImage, MacOS, and Windows are build<br>
>> on my computers, and it's take a while. If we can delegate this build<br>
>> to an automatized workflow, it's better and safe for the future...<br>
>><br>
>> Gilles Caulier<br>
>><br>
>> Le dim. 24 mai 2020 à 17:50, <a href="mailto:jdd@dodin.org" target="_blank">jdd@dodin.org</a> <<a href="mailto:jdd@dodin.org" target="_blank">jdd@dodin.org</a>> a écrit :<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Le 24/05/2020 à 17:41, Gilles Caulier a écrit :<br>
>> > > Discover is just a solution to install a FlatPak bundle. All main<br>
>> > > Linux desktop will certainly provide an delegate application.<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > More info for the sandoxed format is available here :<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > <a href="https://flatpak.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://flatpak.org/</a><br>
>> > ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > may be better here:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > <a href="https://flatpak.org/setup/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://flatpak.org/setup/</a><br>
>> ><br>
>> > (by distro)<br>
>> ><br>
>> > but yet an other repository system :-(<br>
>> ><br>
>> > jdd<br>
>> ><br>
>> > --<br>
>> > <a href="http://dodin.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dodin.org</a><br>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,</div><div>Andrey<br></div></div></div></div></div>
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