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

[Gilles Caulier]

Q : Someone can check if translations are embedded well in the digiKam
FlatPak bundle...

I have a doubt as AppImage is more larger than FlatPak, and i'm sure
that AppImage bundle includes all translation files.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le lun. 1 juin 2020 à 11:04, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> 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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