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

[Gilles Caulier]

Discover is just a solution to install a FlatPak bundle. All main
Linux desktop will certainly provide an delegate application.

More info for the sandoxed format is available here :

https://flatpak.org/

Gilles Caulier

Le dim. 24 mai 2020 à 17:18, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> a écrit :
>
> Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> > FlatPak is a bundle file as AppImage, but with a better integration in
> > Linux system. There is a door open through a socket to communicate
> > with DBus interface from host.
> >
> > The FlatPak file, as i know, must be installed on your system using a
> > delegate application. KDE propose Discover program for that, but i'm
> > sure that other application exists.
> >
> That's rather important, I'm sure not everyone who runs Digikam runs
> KDE.
>
> > From the delegate application you install the bundle as a native
> > package (RPM or DEB). In opposite to package, the bundles include all
> > dependencies required to run the target application.
> >
> So why can't the FlatPack simply come as an RPM or DEB itself?  Even
> better why can't it be in the normal repository for the distribution?
>
> --
> Chris Green
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