Snapping an Electron App Up

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@ryanleesipes

On an unrelated note, passing along a webpage on snapcraft-forum is proving to be quite difficult in the normal snap environment (strict with default plugs as listed here. Any ideas as to what plugs I need to enable in order to get this working?

You shouldn’t have to enable any plugs. This is likely due to the way that xdg-open is currently wired. There’s some discussion on improvements in that area here:

Integrate snapd-xdg-open into snapd repository

Hey everyone, as part of my cross-distro work I am now also looking into snapd-xdg-open and wondering if it would make sense to integrate it directly into the snapd source tree similar to what we do for snap-confine. From my point of view this would simplify the maintenance process and we can release it together with snapd instead of keeping it separate and following its own release cycle. Currently we miss a proper test setup and release process for. The git repository was never tagged yet an…