Snapcraft: Adopting appstream metadata

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....

May 31, 2024 · 3 min

SSH Keys and KWallet: Getting rid of SSH asking passphrase

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....

May 15, 2024 · 2 min