Official GNOME SDK runtime builds are out
As people who have followed the work on sandboxed applications know, we have promised a developer preview for GNOME 3.16. Well, 3.16 has now been released, so the time is now! I spent last week setting...
View ArticleTesting rawhide apps using xdg-app
An important aspect of xdg-app is application sandboxing, which will require application changes to use sandbox-specific APIs. However, xdg-app is also a good way to deploy and run non-sandboxed (or...
View Articlexdg-app moving to freedesktop.org
For anyone following the development of xdg-app, all development have now moved to freedesktop.org. Here is where things are happening now: Mailing list:...
View ArticleTesting unstable gnome using xdg-app
Lot of interesting work on xdg-app lately! I’ve created a new runtime based on the latest unstable gnome, and during the Gnome developer experience hackfest we made bundles for a bunch of core Gnome...
View Articlexdg-app 0.5.0 released
When I set out to create xdg-app I had two goals: Make it possible for 3rd parties to create and distribute applications that works on multiple distributions. Run applications with as little access as...
View Articlexdg-app landing in debian
Simon has submitted the final builds of xdg-app to the debian archives: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/xdg-app.git So, pretty soon now you’ll be able to just do “apt-get install xdg-app”...
View ArticleFlatpak inception
One interesting usecase of flatpak is as a compliment to the ideas of Fedora Atomic Workstation and similar projects. In other words, a read-only core image for the base operating system, and then...
View ArticleYAMLing the flathub
The most common way to build flatpak is using a tool called flatpak-builder. This is a tool that takes a higher level description of the sources that go into an application and generate the build...
View ArticleIntroducing the 1.8 freedesktop runtime in the gnome nightly builds
All the current Flatpak runtimes in wide use are based on the 1.6 Freedesktop runtime. This is a two-layered beast where the lower layer is built using Yocto and the upper layer is built using...
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Flatpak – a history
I’ve been working on Flatpak for almost 4 years now, and 1.0 is getting closer. I think it might be interesting at this point to take a retrospective look at the history of Flatpak. Early history...
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