[Librem-5-dev] Porting apps to L5

[Leland Carlye]

Hi David, .deb distribution for this case makes sense to me. Thank you!

Regarding GNOME, does anyone has experience setting up an environment to modify applications? As far as I understand from GNOME documentation, the way to go is to setup jhbuild+gnome-builder . Is this correct?



> > Hi guys I'm trying to port gnome-terminal. Now in the "Application
> > Development" section I see that applications will be flatpaks and it gives
> > the steps to configure such an environment. Now, I don't think that
> > gnome-terminal will be a flatpak right? In that case what are the
> > instructions to seupt and environment to do the porting? Is a
> > jhbuild+gnome-builder enviroment + deb packaging the way to go in this
> > case? Anyone has had the same situation?
>
> I would suggest porting it upstream so that your changes get picked up by the
> distributions and the phone just uses a regular deb package.
>
> Upstream gnome-terminal doesn't seem to provide a flatpak manifest, and it
> makes more sense for the application to run outside of a sandbox for the use
> cases it has. So I would suggest aiming for a deb package.
>
> Does that help? Maybe others have a better insight into this.
>
> David