On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 9:53 AM Owen Taylor <otay...@redhat.com> 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
> desk...@lists.fedoraproject.org.
>
> 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?
>
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