[Spice-devel] [spice-gtk v1 00/10] Flatpak + CI

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 1:01 PM Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:17:26AM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 9:55 AM Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 11:45:18AM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 7:32 PM Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > From: Victor Toso <me at victortoso.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Trying to improve and integrate flatpak for spicy together with
> > > > > gitlab-ci. I hope the changes here makes sense to you.
> > > >
> > > > Please do not distribute spicy. I wonder why it is still
> > > > installed!
> > > >
> > > > We had several issues with end-users that we don't want to
> > > > address in spicy, there are enough clients out there.
> > >
> > > It is a testing tool and we promote it as such. What's the
> > > problem?
> > >
> >
> > We don't want end-users to use it, so distributing it could
> > lead to wrong assumptions.
>
> I'm always inclined to use spicy for *testing*, adding new UI
> there to tweak things that is not expected to a normal spice
> client to have.
>
> > > > the desktop file for spicy was removed in commit
> > > > 62a077978b78d8ec49e6f797d418fff567ce4532.
> > >
> > > Yes, installing it can be avoided as, for me, the goal is to have
> > > it shipped with the flatpak bundle. Still, while promoting it as
> > > a testing tool, not sure what's the problem on shipping that.
> >
> > Why not focus on virt-viewer flatpak instead?
>
> I'm completely in favor in working on something like that but I
> would rather do it with gnome-boxes instead as I can add
> (nightly) qemu, spice-protocol, spice, spice-gtk to a single
> flatpak.
>

Boxes is a different beast.

> Having a virt-viewer flatpak does not mean _not_ having a
> spicy.flatkpak (to me); one is full featured spice client while
> the other a testing tool...

It looks like a lot of duplication of flatpak effort. Maybe you could
simply ship spicy in virt-viewer flatpak, so it could be run from
command line (please no .desktop)




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Marc-André Lureau