Nice, that should really help, thanks a lot!

Also, it seems to me that it should not be that hard to modify the flatpak metadata json to create a flatpak for modRana and possibly also my work-in-progress Twitter client as well. Looks like the Flatpak project has progressed quite a bit since I looked at it initially when it looked like one would have to first get to compile full Qt 5 + Python 3 just to create a Python + QML application.

Is it possible to start an application packaged inside flatpak over DBUS ? If yes, then I think it could be used as an alternative to regular socket activation - the application would first start OSM Scout Server via DBUS (a noop if already running) and only once it signals back it is running would start calling it's API over the localhost network.


Thanks! I think it went well - while the lecture room was not full there was a reasonable number of attendees and many of them apparently went to my previous talks as well (I've been doing this "what's new in Sailfish OS" talk for the last 2-3 years). The actual number of Sailfish OS users in audience was quite small though, but at least one person with a Gemini PDA and a kernel hacker working N900 and Motorolla Droid kernel upstreaming (Pavel Machek) were attending the talk, which in itself was cool.

The talk was in Czech and the slides (also Czech) are here:
http://www.modrana.org/openalt2018/

There will be unfortunately no recording from this year due to a A/V tech malfunction in the venue.

I've also submitted a similar topic to the all-English DevConf 2019, so if the proposal gets accepted there might be an English version of the slides (and possibly a recording of the talk) in early 2019.