[systemd-devel] How is desktop container getting along?

[Leslie Zhai]

Hi Lennart,

Thanks for your reply ;)

I would be familiar with kdbus at first, it was implemented (maybe) last 
year, but I am still a newbie... what a shame ;(

And my sincere thanks will give to you systemd developers, you are so 
nice 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-June/019787.html

Welcome to China for GNOME Asia summit next year ;)

On 10/21/2014 02:14 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 17.10.14 15:47, Leslie Zhai (xiangzhai83 at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> Hi systemd developers,
>>
>> I am studying namespace, seccomp, pivot_root, cgroups and other thing behind
>> Linux container such as lxc and docker recently.
>>
>> But there are only lots of use cases about Linux Server and web application,
>> as a Linux desktop geek, I often consider about the disadvantage of
>> traditional deployment of Linux desktop application. Krita, for example, an
>> awesome digital painting application in KDE`s calligra suite, is depend on
>> Qt4, kdepimlibs 4.6.0, kdelibs4 and sort of KDE4 relative libraries; but
>> also as a KDE develop, my desktop environment is Qt5 and KF5, so I have to
>> git clone KDE4 relative libraries` repositories, then built them by myself
>> as what other Linux geeks often experienced ;)
>>
>> When I found Desktop Container
>> http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2014/07/10/desktop-containers-the-way-forward/
>> especially there is Sandboxed applications for GNOME keynote
>> http://www.superlectures.com/guadec2013/sandboxed-applications-for-gnome by
>> Lennart Poettering, it is impressed!
>>
>> So I just want to know how is desktop container getting along? what is it`s
>> status? is there some git repository or something to follow?
>
> We are mostly working on some basic building blocks still, for example
> kdbus (which will bring a long powerful per-app bus sandboxing by
> default). We are busy, but it will take some more work before we will
> have a comprehensive solution actually in place.
>
> Sorry,
>
> Lennart
>

-- 
Regards
Leslie Zhai
a KDE developer