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"This Week in KDE Apps" brings improvements to Haruna, Kate and KMyMoney (among many others); and a whole new app: Karp, a tool for visually arranging and editing PDF documents.

blogs.kde.org/2024/11/25/this-

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@soumyadghosh @gcala @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Thanks for the recommendations. Unfortunately, is not an option for me.

@soumyadghosh The format itself. AppImage and Flatpak are fine for me. From my experience, Snaps are slower to install and launch, consuming more RAM and disk space, which can be frustrating. They are controlled by Canonical, which limits choices and can create dependency issues, whereas AppImage and Flatpak offer more flexibility and community-driven development.

@devSJR

If you want to bring change in the format, please join the community, discuss your problems, give your feedback. You can see from my profile, I myself am a community guy, but I believe I have made huge impact in the snap world as everyone says me. If I can, why can't you. The biggest plus point of snap as a format is the fact that there is no compromise in terms of access to the resource. If the snap has access to Home, there will be no performance issues nothing. Due apparmor 1/2

@devSJR If I can, why can't you. It'd be awesome to have opinion from people like you. I'd request you to give this optiimage snap or any other snap from my portfolio a try and share the feedback. As the time goes I have tried to fix a lot of things. But, 1 man army doesn't always work, if community is there, we can bring up an awesome format. Taking huge spaces, extra rams, tbh, these are myth (atleast now). Please give the apps a try.

Hey @soumyadghosh, you are doing great work. Keep up the good work. Since you are in the KDE family, there surely will be somebody helping you.

Now I remember my main reason for objection. Snap Firefox didn't play well with KDE integration. Some other apps to0. Snaps were made first class, while native were 'degraded'. I didn't like to be forced into a technology.

I noticed that you are behind
, which I am a happy user of (flatpak, btw). :)

@devSJR Thank you so much for the feedback. FYI, only firefox is the sandboxed browser that has native messaging support and the plasma browser integration works perfectly.

@soumyadghosh Sure, some time ago, Firefox & plasma browser integration had several 'disagreements' which were only present in the snap but not the flatpak or deb.

@devSJR AFAIK, plasma browser integration doesn't work in flatpak. Because native messaging doesn't work in flatpak.

@soumyadghosh Ups,
you are right. Sorry. My bad. I use Firefox as deb.