What I want to know is what snap is missing from the store?
What’s the killer app for you that you wish was a snap install away, automatically updated and always fresh?
Is there some tool you use which is ancient in the archive? What about that game which is outdated? Perhaps there’s a brand new fast moving command line tool you’re using, which you have to build from source, like a barbarian? Maybe you’re getting envious about a desktop app available elsewhere, but not in your distro? What about that thing in a PPA which doesn’t get updated often?
I think everyone has their own pet applications or tools & utilities that they’d like to see snapped, and I wanted to get some feedback from our community to find out what you want to see snapped next?
Leave a comment below, and feel free to suggestions you agree with!
Pycharm, or more generally the whole Jetbrains portfolio! They’re already fairly easy to install, just unzip and run, but that also makes upgrades tedious.
Pycharm and (I think) IntelliJ have community versions under Apache license (IIRC) so no roadblocks there. But For the others, vendor cooperation would probably be necessary.
Separate post because separate app: anki which has been suffering from qt4 transition lag for quite some time but works fine when installed via sudo make install.
In general, it would be cool to package apps that have roadblock bugs due to library transitions like this (semi-)automatically. Maybe put a warning sign at install time or on first start though. The new libraries aren’t there for no reason, after all.
I’d love to see openmediavault ported to Ubuntu. I wonder if snaping it would be a solution (not sure how it would interact with updates and extra repositories though)
Apart from that, there are 3 apps that I’ve been having problems with and I wonder if getting the bleeding edge ones snapped would solve the issues:
Well, ideally I’d like to see every app on the Internet that isn’t yet a stable strict Snap made a stable strict Snap xD
Stuff I use - in order of my personal preference (so would personally want prioritised):
Firefox
LibreOffice (lots of bugs that need to be fixed on the stable Snap - I’m also getting some nasty crashes but the Apport Snap doesn’t seem to pick them up yet)
GNOME apps (e.g. Files, Text Editor, Document Viewer)
Discord (thanks Martin for the Snap! But still needs indicator working (works in the Deb) and autostart)
PlayOnLinux - the upstream for Phoenicis (aka POL 5) seem to be quite enthusiastic about making a Snap for this
Thunderbird
Time Tracker (Hamster)
Snapcraft (Candidate Snap for that out but not a stable one yet)
name: play0ad
summary: "Real-time strategy game of ancient warfare"
publisher: osomon
contact: https://launchpad.net/~osomon
description: |
0 A.D. (pronounced "zero ey-dee") is a free, open-source, cross-platform
real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare. In short, it is a
historically-based war/economy game that allows players to relive or rewrite
the history of Western civilizations, focusing on the years between 500 B.C.
and 500 A.D. The project is highly ambitious, involving state-of-the-art 3D
graphics, detailed artwork, sound, and a flexible and powerful custom-built
game engine.
commands:
- play0ad.0ad
- play0ad.atlas
tracking: stable
installed: 0.0.21-alpha (12) 800MB -
refreshed: 2017-05-08 11:14:46 +0100 BST
channels:
stable: 0.0.21-alpha (12) 800MB -
candidate: 0.0.21-alpha (12) 800MB -
beta: 0.0.21-alpha (12) 800MB -
edge: 0.0.21-alpha (12) 800MB -
suggestions you agree with!
