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Has this ever occurred to you? The most joyful moments of your life got filled with sorrow, a grief of loss… Let’s talk about the Ubuntu Summit first, my international conference and solo travel outside my country. Probably I am the first from my entire extended family to visit a European country. My parents, well-wishers everyone was so happy. Only person didn’t know much about this, my maternal grandfather, whom I called (yes, “called”, he left us on 27th October 2024) Dada. Let me tell you about the summit first. ...

“Heather, Heather, Heather; what did you do now!” and both me & Fenris started laughing with Till, as we’re discussing about the thunderbird snap during the conference dinner. Yup, this is from UbuCon Asia, my First conference First flight journey First travel out of my state First solo travel out of my state First solo stay at a hotel Huhhh, a lot of first timers! I can’t think actually where to start with… I met so many people out there, got so many mentors! Thanks Till , for introducing me with so many mentors! I met Guruprasad sir (the launchpad guru 😄), Kierthana mam and Dimple didi (both are the documentation gurus). A lot of suggestions, tips, guides from them! Thanks a lot 🥹! BTW, How can I forget my OG Bhavani bhaiyaa! ...

Introduction Whatever takes time takes for good. Yeah, so, about on March I created a PR on snapcraft by canonical. It was about adopting more metadata from the parsed appstrean metadata file. The new fields that were made to parse were License Contact Issues Source Code (VCS Browser) Website Donation Link What does this change means? For publishers/snapcrafters Publishers and snapcrafters who also maintains an appstrean metadata for their app, you don’t need to maintain the metadata in your snap package separately. Just add the metadata file in your snap and you’re good to go. (Also please keep in mind to enable the update metadata from snapcraft option in case you disabled it). ...

So, recently, I shifted some of my workload to kde. And I started my KDE journey with KDE Neon. Even with a 2 year old base and packages, snaps and ppas saved me. Now, one of the important part of my work was to clone the repo using ssh. And here comes the problem. In gnome, the gnome-keyring and the seahorse would automatically manage my ssh and gpg key passphrases. But, in KDE, that didn’t happen. On the starting I was getting frustrated with the ssh always asking me the passphrase. Then after a lot of reading manuals and internet searching, I found out about ksshaskpass. This can be used to write my passphrase and there I can set it to remember my passphrase, which it would essentially save in kwallet. So, How did I set this up? ...