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Re: Flatpak on Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by rinigus (Post 1567137)

Flatpak 1.6.3 is out, not tested much so far. Those who wish to test can update, others should wait and see if there will be any complaints.

Thanks for the fast update! I installed it yesterday on X and XA2 but found no issues on both devices after the upgrade. I would say that it's safe to install the new flatpak base.

Re: Flatpak on Sailfish OS

What do you think of the comment on the Sailfish blog:

"at we do not see FlatPak as the selected Sailfish OS application bundling framework, mainly due to its high resource usage."

https://blog.jolla.com/sailfish-os-r...now-available/

Re: Flatpak on Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pim (Post 1567210)

Its absolutely correct. I think it is in the context of making Flatpak apps running Silica/Sailfish stack. As developed here, though, it brings functionality that is not available to SFOS, such as latest Qt and interoperability with other mobile Linux distros out there. A bit kind of Android emulation on SFOS, except you work with apps that are developed closer in terms of API (assuming that its Qt/QML) to what we have on SFOS.

Re: Flatpak on Sailfish OS

Hi guys, sorry for the offtopic. I'm curious in what is involved in having a maliit keyboard pop-up plugin responding to Xwayland (e.g. in https://github.com/elros34/sailfish_ubu_chroot) similar to how it's used in flatpak-runner. And what are your views on adopting Xwayland for the applications that can't be used through the current Flatpak setup (e.g. Firefox)?

Re: Flatpak on Sailfish OS

Re Maliit: Maliit plugin has been adjusted to respond to the info provided by Flatpak Runner (screen orientation and such). For that to work, you have to incorporate Maliit plugin into chroot and adjust Xwindows server to communicate with it.

Maliit plugin has been adjusted as described in my commits at https://github.com/sailfishos-flatpa...ommits/flatpak .

Flatpak Runner code is in https://github.com/sailfishos-flatpa...ree/master/src, mainly dbuscontainerstate.{cpp,hpp} and https://github.com/sailfishos-flatpa...runner.cpp#L67

Re Firefox: I don't know how well Maliit supports Gtk apps. As we don't have them running, never looked into it. So, that will have to be investigated and maybe fixed.

As always with such projects, someone has to do it. To be clear, I am not planning to work on it as I have other projects as a priority. So, you either have to do it yourself or find someone to do it.

Re: Flatpak on Sailfish OS

I have recompiled Flatpak using SFOS 3.3.0.x provided libseccomp and json-glib. This build is available through usual Flatpak distribution channel at OBS.

For devices on SFOS 3.2.1.20 (Sony Xperia Tama and maybe some others), until the update is ready, use https://build.merproject.org/project...atpak:3.2.1.20 . The latter project will disappear once we all update to SFOS 3.3.0.16 as it is not needed in future.

I expect that on SFOS 3.3.0.x, install should be clean and there are no conflicts with Jolla's json-glib. I hope it will automatically uninstall json-glib from my repo when you update Flatpak, but haven't tested it.

Re: Flatpak on Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by rinigus (Post 1567349)

I expect that on SFOS 3.3.0.x, install should be clean and there are no conflicts with Jolla's json-glib. I hope it will automatically uninstall json-glib from my repo when you update Flatpak, but haven't tested it.

This looks good :)

Code:

The following packages have to be installed:

 flatpak-1.6.3.0-1.23.4.jolla.armv7hl   Application deployment framework for desktop apps

 flatpak-runner-0.8.5-1.35.2.jolla.armv7hl      Flatpak runner

 flatpak-session-helper-1.6.3.0-1.23.4.jolla.armv7hl    User D-Bus service used by flatpak and others

 libappstream-glib-0.7.15.1-1.14.1.jolla.armv7hl        Library for AppStream metadata

 ostree-libs-2019.6-1.14.2.jolla.armv7hl        Development headers for ostree

 xdg-dbus-proxy-0.1.2-1.5.2.jolla.armv7hl       Filtering proxy for D-Bus connections

 xdg-desktop-portal-1.4.2-1.10.8.jolla.armv7hl  Portal frontend service to flatpak

Proceed with changes? [N/y] y





Updating packages

Downloading packages

Installing packages

Finished

 [nemo@Sailfish ~]$ devel-su pkcon search libjson-glib

Password:

Searching by details

Querying

Finished

 Installed      libjson-glib-1.4.4-1.2.1.jolla.armv7hl (installed)              Library for JavaScript Object Notation format

[nemo@Sailfish ~]$

Re: Flatpak on Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nekron (Post 1567356)

This looks good :)

Code:

The following packages have to be installed:

 flatpak-1.6.3.0-1.23.4.jolla.armv7hl   Application deployment framework for desktop apps

 flatpak-runner-0.8.5-1.35.2.jolla.armv7hl      Flatpak runner

 flatpak-session-helper-1.6.3.0-1.23.4.jolla.armv7hl    User D-Bus service used by flatpak and others

 libappstream-glib-0.7.15.1-1.14.1.jolla.armv7hl        Library for AppStream metadata

 ostree-libs-2019.6-1.14.2.jolla.armv7hl        Development headers for ostree

 xdg-dbus-proxy-0.1.2-1.5.2.jolla.armv7hl       Filtering proxy for D-Bus connections

 xdg-desktop-portal-1.4.2-1.10.8.jolla.armv7hl  Portal frontend service to flatpak

Proceed with changes? [N/y] y





Updating packages

Downloading packages

Installing packages

Finished

 [nemo@Sailfish ~]$ devel-su pkcon search libjson-glib

Password:

Searching by details

Querying

Finished

 Installed      libjson-glib-1.4.4-1.2.1.jolla.armv7hl (installed)              Library for JavaScript Object Notation format

[nemo@Sailfish ~]$

Sorry! I just double checked it and there seems to be a difference even if pkcon reports installation of the Jolla-based json-glib package.

Code:

[nemo@Sailfish ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib/libjson-glib-1.0.so.0.400.4

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        108032 Jan  5 09:37 /usr/lib/libjson-glib-1.0.so.0.400.4

[nemo@Sailfish ~]$ devel-su pkcon install libjson-glib

Password:

Resolving

Testing changes

Finished                                                                 [                                    ] (0%)

The following packages have to be installed:

 libjson-glib-1.4.4-1.2.1.jolla.armv7hl Library for JavaScript Object Notation format

Proceed with changes? [N/y] y





Installing

Waiting for authentication

Querying

Installing packages

Downloading packages

Installing packages

Finished

[nemo@Sailfish ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib/libjson-glib-1.0.so.0.400.4

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        107988 Mar 27 08:25 /usr/lib/libjson-glib-1.0.so.0.400.4

[nemo@Sailfish ~]$

See the difference in filedate + size after re-installation of the Jolla-based package.

Re: Flatpak on Sailfish OS

Went as expected on 3.3.0.16 Pro¹.

Code:

Checking for file conflicts: ..............................................................[error]

Detected 1 file conflict:



File /usr/lib/libjson-glib-1.0.so.0.400.4

  from install of

     libjson-glib-1.4.4-1.2.1.jolla.armv7hl (jolla)

  conflicts with file from package

     json-glib-1.4.4-1.8.2.jolla.armv7hl (@System)



File conflicts happen when two packages attempt to install files with the same name but different contents. If you continue, conflicting files will be replaced losing the previous content.

Continue? [yes/no] (no): yes

Re: Flatpak on Sailfish OS

Quote:

Originally Posted by rinigus (Post 1567349)

For devices on SFOS 3.2.1.20 (Sony Xperia Tama and maybe

3.2.1.20:

Fatal error: nothing provides libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 needed by flatpak-1.6.3.0-1.4.1.jolla.armv7hl

Seems there is no libgdk_pixbuf-2.0 or similar package