Public bug reported:
The Lubuntu team wrote two snap-based utilities that we would like to move to a
common source package in the OO cycle, perhaps snapd itself. These are
snap-preseed-glue and simple-snap-preseed-dialog, both of which serve distinct
purposes:
- snap-preseed-glue is a command-line tool which allows for preseeding snaps.
We use this in Calamares so users can select Krita, Thunderbird, and/or Element
via the UI to be installed as a snap on the target system. It does not clobber
existing preseeded snaps (in our case, Firefox and Firmware Updater), but
instead adds the appropriate snaps (and their default content snaps,
recursively). seed.yaml items are treated as a set. This should eventually be
used in livecd-rootfs.
- simple-snap-preseed-dialog is a simple GUI application meant to be ran on
system startup. It lets the user know that the preseed process is still running
in the background, so they are not left with a bad impression if they try to
use e.g. Firefox right after boot, but it is not fully installed yet. It is
incredibly simple, and uses 3.2 MB of RAM (precisely) when it needs to do
something, 2.1 MB (precisely) of RAM if ran on startup without functionality.
snap-preseed-glue currently exists in calamares-settings-ubuntu, is
written in Go, and needs golang-github-snapcore-snapd-dev as a build
dependency.
simple-snap-preseed-dialog currently exists as a dedicated binary
package of lubuntu-default-settings, and is written in Qt 5. We named
the binary package as lubuntu-snap-installation-monitor in lieu of an
agreed-upon, generic name for it, to minimize upgrade conflicts in the
future. This should likely be available as both a Qt and GTK frontend
Eventually, to allow GTK-based desktop environments to use this
functionality as well, without the extra Qt runtime dependencies.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Medium
Status: Triaged
** Changed in: ubuntu
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: ubuntu
Milestone: None => later
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Title:
Generic snap utilities should be moved to a common source package for
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