KDE Plasma 5.11 Desktop to Have a Stable Snap Backend for Installing Snaps

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

KDE developer Aleix Pol is reporting today on the progress of the Snap backend for the Plasma Discover graphical package manager of the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

As some of you out there are aware already, the latest KDE Plasma 5.10 desktop environment shipped with preview versions of the Snap and Flatpak backends to allow users to install applications that are distributed in the Snap and Flatpak universal package format.

But with every new major release of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment, these components are always improved, and it now looks like the Snap backend will be stable enough to be used in production environment this fall when the KDE Plasma 5.11 desktop environment launches on October 10, 2017.

“Long due, some of you have already been using the testing version of it. During this sprint it was refactored to use the snapd-glib library that should simplify a bit the maintainership of this piece of software. I’m aiming to having a stable snap ba… (read more)

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