Re: digiKam availability as Flatpak/Snap

Posted by Ihor Dvoretskyi on Jan 16, 2020; 2:20pm
URL: http://digikam.185.s1.nabble.com/digiKam-availability-as-Flatpak-Snap-tp4711122p4711133.html

The digiKam snap exists as well - https://snapcraft.io/digikam, but it's maintained by someone else, not by the KDE project itself (or not by Gilles, for example). So, I would not trust it as it is not an official digiKam release artifact.

So, strategically my question is more a request to have the officially supported and maintained by the digiKam project Flatpak and Snap packages.

As a short-term workaround, I'm happy to see the notifications about the new release availability with the current Appimage package, as Andrey suggested.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 3:12 PM Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> wrote:

Something like that, yes.

Libreoffice actually pushes a notification on the user but what you suggested will work too. I actually like your idea more since digikam will not be doing anything without user input.

At the same time, there is digikam.org button on the panel by default. So, maybe the new menu entry is not even needed... 

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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From: Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>

Date: 2020-01-16 5:55 a.m. (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam developers room - digiKam - Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: digiKam availability as Flatpak/Snap

Le jeu. 16 janv. 2020 à 13:38, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> a écrit :

Gilles,

Is it a big deal to make digikam notify users about new version similar to how Libreoffice does?

You want mean to have an entry menu in digiKam to ping www.digikam.org for new release ? If yes, it's not a big challenge...

Gilles