KDE Applications on XDG App

Some days ago I started wondering about containerized applications, I looked at a few alternatives and then decided to give xdg-app a go. It took a while, not really because it’s especially hard, but mostly because I’m rather stubborn, then I decided to ask Alexander Larsson and he guided me quite well.

All in all, it’s rather easy, it implements a packaging format, but one that I feel KDE can maintain reasonably easily. I set it up in 2 chunks, copying GNOME’s approach: one repository for the run-time (that includes Qt5 and most of the KDE Frameworks 5) and then another one that can build applications. One thing we could do now is set up servers that built nightly versions of our applications, I’ll have to ask the sysadmins how do they feel about it.

Anyway, you’re waiting for screenshots and I’ll give you screenshots. Some problems are still obvious, but it’s a first step. Patches welcome! \o/



