Snapping KDE Applications

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1. Snapping KDE Applications Harald Sitter <sitter@kde.org>
2. KDE Community of Freedom Fighters Lots of Software All Major Platforms
3. Bundles Put everything into a blob for the user to use. KDE invests in Snaps and Flatpak.
4. Heavy Lifting KDE has many sophisticated applications Many libraries, called KDE Frameworks Most applications use multiple Frameworks Almost everything needs Qt
5. > 70 MiB Minimal (unoptimized) size of a tiny KDE Application. Most of this is the graphics stack.
6. KDE Frameworks 5 Content Snap New content snap Currently 160 MiB (unoptimized) Includes all KDE Frameworks and the entire Qt 5.7 stack
7. > 0 KiB Content-sharing applications are only a couple of KiB (more if they have artwork etc.)
8. KDE Applications Snaps Built against a content snap stage Add things on top of the content snap Bind-mount content snap to access shared content
9. Status Framework & Application build automated KTuberling and KBlocks in edge channel on Ubuntu Store Missing DBus access hurts a lot
10. CI ➜ Store
11. Demo :-O
12. https://www.kde.org sitter@kde.org