Building a snap for a wayland compositor

[alan_g]

I see this old thread reawakening, so I’ll post some notes here.

I’m responsible for three snaps for Wayland compositors:

Snap	Repo	Comment
mir-kiosk	https://github.com/MirServer/mir-kiosk/	Confined kiosk server
egmde	GitHub - MirServer/egmde-snap: Snapping up egmde	Classic demo desktop
egmde-confined-desktop	GitHub - MirServer/egmde-confined-desktop: Self contained, confined Mir desktop	Confined demo desktop

The current state of art with a confined desktop is described here:

An example snap confined "desktop"

I’ve also been experimenting with solving some of the issues with running a confined desktop.

How can a confined snap run other snaps (or applications)?

Another iteration I’ve addressed some of the discussion above. My hacked version of snapd now adds io.snapcraft.Launcher.OpenDesktopEntry, io.snapcraft.Launcher.OpenDesktopEntryEnv access to /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications to a new shell-support interface. As currently coded, the shell-support interface auto-connects. I’d expect it be be flagged for manual review for uploads to the store. I’ve also updated the branched egmde to use this and created a version of the egmde-confined-desktop…