<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I suppose that Snap will embed application configuration into the sandbox. From my viewpoint, it's a bad concept, invented by paranoid developers.</div><div><br></div><div>AppImage is different, more easy to use, with less security rules on the basis. The configuration is stored at the same place as the native application.</div><div>If you want to run the AppImage in a sandbox, you can do it with extension, but it's a user choice...</div><div><br></div><div>This is why we choose to support AppImage instead Snap or Flatpak. Simplicity and robustness.</div><div><br></div><div>Note: I saw today a thread in reddit SN about the Kate text editor which left the Flatpak bundling. The comments and feedbacks are very instructive:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/t9fye8/why_kate_is_endoflife_on_flathub/">https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/t9fye8/why_kate_is_endoflife_on_flathub/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 9 mars 2022 à 09:42, <<a href="mailto:loup%2Bdigikamusers@lo-cal.org">loup+digikamusers@lo-cal.org</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Good to know now, but unfortunately my old installation was snap and I <br>
can't change that now. Noted for future reference.<br>
<br>
for the purposes of this discussion, let's pretend that it wasn't a snap <br>
install. What would I need to do? Is it different for an appimage vs. <br>
a distribution install (my system is kubuntu).<br>
<br>
On 3/9/22 03:37, Andrew Goodbody wrote:<br>
> On 09/03/2022 04:09, <a href="mailto:loup%2Bdigikamusers@lo-cal.org" target="_blank">loup+digikamusers@lo-cal.org</a> wrote:<br>
>> How do I make digikam believe this is an existing installation rather <br>
>> than a new one?<br>
><br>
> Don't use snap. Snap is not supported by the digikam devs. Snap brings <br>
> with it a whole world of pain to configure the sandboxing.<br>
><br>
> If you insist on using snap then you will need to get support from <br>
> whoever made the snap package.<br>
><br>
> You can get the digikam appimage, which is supported by the digikam <br>
> devs, from <a href="https://www.digikam.org/download/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.digikam.org/download/</a><br>
><br>
> Andrew<br>
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