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Outdated snap packages - Issues Canonical Needs to Address Before Releasing an "All Snap" Desktop (popey.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Canonical is planning an ‘All Snap’ desktop next year. It will likely be available side-by-side with the traditional deb-based installation we’ve been used to since 2004.

If the “All Snap” or “immutable” platform is to be a success, Canonical needs to get a grip on the broken, uninstallable, insecure, and outdated snaps provided in the snap store.

As I mentioned, there’s around five thousand snaps in the store. Hundreds of them haven’t been touched in years. Some developers have just abandoned their packages.

I want to see this situation improve. In general, Canonical should incentivise the promotion of applications and dis-incentivise letting applications languish.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually like snaps. For a few big well-maintained projects, they make a lot of sense and can provide some serious benefits.

Forcing everything to be a snap? That is insane.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'd like to like Snaps, but the main thing that put me off them was their inability to see: • Fonts • Printers/Scanners • Other Internal Hard Drives (other than Home) • Cameras • USB Sticks • Anything in system folders • Other software, or plugins

This was when they were a pretty new thing though - so, fingers crossed, have they managed to deal with this permissions thing yet? Something like Flatseal, or Android's "This program would like to access this folder and your camera - Allow/Deny"?