On 26 March 2017 at 08:16, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote: > I sort of feel bad for Ubuntu, where so many of the things they make are > not taken up by the winder community. On the other hand, perhaps we'd never > have heard of flatpak otherwise. >
Yeah, I feel that way too. The community seems to be pretty hostile to a number of projects from Canonical. In this case, though, I don't think they really tried to push Snap as a solution for desktop apps - there was a half-hearted push to get it into other distros, but it never felt like they were really committed to it. I think they're more interested in server and mobile use cases, because there's more potential revenue there. > It seems 16.04 is supported with a ppa on Ubuntu, and it's at least > packaged for many other ones. Couldn't find anything about being in by > default with mint, manjaro, fedora, suse, raspberian? I guess it's too soon. > It's in a default install of Fedora 25 (the current stable version). I think it's backed by people in the Gnome/Fedora/Red Hat set, so that's no surprise. It's in Debian's repos, but I don't know if/when it will be included in a default install of things like Mint or Raspbian. > I wonder if you tried the 'change current working directory' hack, and it > didn't work? > I didn't try it yet. I think it certainly should work, it just feels wrong. Thomas
