Canonical’s Ubuntu Desktop director Will Cooke is back this week with another update on what’s going on with the development process of the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system.
It looks like Canonical’s Ubuntu Desktop and Snappy teams are putting a lot of effort lately on packaging as much GNOME apps to the Snap universal binary format as possible, by using the gnome-3-24 platform Snap they created recently. With this, they want to make possible the sharing of common libraries between GNOME apps, which automatically translates to smaller Snaps and easy maintenance of them.
“We’ve been packaging more GNOME apps as Snaps using the gnome-3-24 platform Snap,” said Will Cooke, Director, Ubuntu Desktop, Canonical. “By utilizing the content interface in Snaps, we can share the common libraries between GNOME apps, which means the apps themselves are smaller … (read more)
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