[digiKam-users] Future of digiKam bundles...

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi all,

Sorry for my late response in the thread, but i'm not at home
actually, and busy in familly

I start to group all information around Flatpak in a README.md file
from git repository, here :

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/tree/master/project/bundles/flatpak

There are plenty of details to append in the file due to the feedback
here. Please use gitlab, fork the repository, and send a pull request.

With gitlab, it's very simple, and ALL can be done with web interface.
README.md file can be edited on line too...

Thanks in advance for your contributions.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le lun. 1 juin 2020 à 10:22, Stuart T Rogers
<stuart at stella-maris.org.uk> a écrit :
>
> I'm sorry but I do feel that flatpak is a complete waste of time, there
> are so many hoops to jump through to get digikam working as most users
> want and need that it is a wasted effort. Also probably most users would
> enable access to everything in order to be able to use apps they already
> have installed, thus completely negating the whole point of a sandbox!
>
> I very much doubt that anyone anywhere in the world has had a security
> issue directly caused by digikam so to have to run it sandboxed like
> this is a completely pointless. I have not had any problems with
> appimage to test beta versions and my distros RPM works perfectly with
> immediate access to everything I need accessible. Also being a rolling
> release I get the latest stable releases very quickly.
>
> Yes there probably are apps I would want to run sandboxed, if I needed
> them, but they are very few and far between and frankly none that I have
> seen so far available in flatpak.
>
> Yes you need to use Discover in openSUSE to do the installs etc and so
> far there is no access from YAST. Discover can be used to install normal
> openSUSE programs as well so it may become the norm in future, although
> personally I prefer YAST or commandline.
>
> Stuart
>
> On 01/06/2020 06:13, jdd at dodin.org wrote:
> > Le 01/06/2020 à 03:06, Carlos Echenique a écrit :
> >> Flatseal to the rescue, Peter.
> >>
> >
> > you should understand that most new software do not take in account new
> > users.
> >
> > I had to search half an hour to understand that flatpak kde software
> > install is "discover" (never heard before of this sift)
> >
> > and there I could install flatseal, unknown in yast (I use openSUSE 15.1)
> >
> > thanks
> > jdd
> >
>
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