On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 9:53 AM Owen Taylor <otaylor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'd like to invite Fedora contributors to start creating Flatpaks of graphical applications in Fedora. We're still working on putting the final pieces into place to have a complete story from end to end, but it's definitely close enough to get started. > > If you maintain a graphical application, please try creating a Flatpak of it. Your experience will vary - some applications are quite easy, but if your application, for example: > > * Uses qt5-qtwebengine > * Uses many KDE libraries > * Uses many Perl or Python packages > * Uses texlive > > etc, then you may want to wait - we will eventually be creating shared builds to make bundling these easier. Also, if your application has a system service, installs a polkit policy, or otherwise is not self-contained, then it's not a good candidate for a Flatpak. > > Or you can pick one of 280+ applications that have been identfied as easy to Flatpak: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flatpak:Easy > > and assist out the application package maintainer by creating a Flatpak of that. > > An introduction, draft tutorial and other documentation can be found at: > > https://fishsoup.net/misc/fedora-docs-flatpak/flatpak/ > > (The plan is to integrate this into docs.fedoraproject.org. For now, the documentation source > is at: https://github.com/owtaylor/fedora-docs-flatpak) > > For help, please ask on #fedora-workstation on Freenode, or mail desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. > > Owen What does it mean for 'Fedora' Flatpaks? - Flatpaks that run on a Fedora runtime? Then, what's the benifit to use Fedora runtime instead of freedesktop ones? - Flatpaks that maintained by Fedora community? Then, why not encourage people to contribute to Flathub directly? > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
