A few hours ago we have known how Martin Wimpress spoke of the incorporation of snap packages to Ubuntu MATE, starting with the MATE desktop itself. We have also seen how you could create a simple package with a calculator that worked perfectly.
But this is not the only thing that snap packages can do. Michael Hall has wanted to reaffirm the importance of snap packages and not allow them to remain as something superfluous, as he has done himself a transformation from deb packages to snap packages that will not leave anyone indifferent.
The software we refer to is neither more nor less than Krita 3.0. Hall wanted to demonstrate the full potential of snap packages and you have converted from a version of Krita 3.0, something that he has done in a simple way and with a fully functional result.
Hall has created a snap pack of Krita to demonstrate her power
Hall has ensured that snap is not only for calculators and that it will allow users to have the latest versions of their favorite programs just a few hours after being publicly released since the creation of snap packages and its update does not take as much time as deb packages, the current package system that was inherited precisely from Debian.
The results of snap parcels are very good, there is no doubt about it, but the problem with this new parcel system is not in its quality but in its quantity, in the number of developers that will use this new packaging system. At the moment, although Snap is used in Ubuntu Core, few packages have their snap version and that is something that I think will unfortunately remain for a long time What do you think? Do you think snap will finally be the standard Ubuntu package? Have you tried any installation via snap?
I think that in the future it will be the standard package in Ubuntu (and surely in its derivatives) coexisting with the deb packages, relegating them to the background.
I have tried the Telegram snap from the Ubuntu store but there are a couple of drawbacks that I don't like. It is not 100% integrated in Ubuntu with what is lost 1- the status indicator icon in the top bar and the number of unread messages that does not appear in the unity launcher icon and 2- the links cannot be opened website that they send you by message. The solution is to copy the link, open the browser and paste it. Surely in the future they will be able to fix these problems, so for now I install the version of the Telegram website.
I have also installed a couple of programs via https://uappexplorer.com/apps?type=snappy a calculator, notes and a watch.
I like to try the snap packages, easy and more "powerful" but they still have to improve the integration with Ubuntu (telegram) and especially an application or command in terminal to update all the installed snap and not have to go one by one indicating your name.
What about the security flaw out there? When they solve it we will talk about those packages, thank you.
José L. Torres, what security flaw do the Snap have? :-OR
Kike, that people read a tabloid headline and don't bother to read the details. In short, someone came out (can't remember the name, sorry) saying they were unsafe. If you read the details, it turns out that part of the snaps security is the Sandbox system, which depends on Mir. So if you don't install on a computer that still uses X11, the applications don't have Sandboxing protection…. as well as none installed using DEB or RPM.
Sensationalist to the limit.
Thanks for the supersx answer, with it I have investigated a little and as I have read it is not the fault of snap but of X11, so by that same rule of three the same would happen with a conventional .deb.
I like the idea of snap, everything you need in a single package, sandbox system to secure the system ... so I hope it will be the default package in Ubuntu in no time.