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Interfaces are at the core of defining and controlling snap confinement. Learn how they work and how to manage them in this new post from +Gustavo Niemeyer's snappy fundamentals series.
just one thing: snap install ubuntu-calculator-app
downloads 120 Megabytes, what kind of calculator ist that?
Is a calculator, that is but an "app" also not to be expected to reel in no much more than a single MB(if at all...)??Apr 22, 2016
snap packages are self contained and are providing all their dependencies you'd usually find on the host system. This impacts the size of such a package.Apr 22, 2016
Yeah, and I also suspect this particular snap is bundling a lot content it doesn't need to. We also have good plans for safe content sharing on that level. A few more steps ahead, but we'll get there.Apr 22, 2016- +Olli Ries
OK, mass-storage is cheap, nerves are expensive, so its not such a big concern for my taste. Anyway: what about RAM? If this calculator uses say: GTK and this would be its very own GTK, will it load its very own libgtk into RAM? While 6 other apps run with GTK the same time?Apr 22, 2016 - right now app isolation and confinement would prevent that type of shared resources. However, as Gustavo is pointing out, we are working on a structured approach to address this. HW resources are "cheap" (as you say) and usually available plentiful on desktop/laptop HW, but space is an issue on e.g. mobile devices (phones/tablet).Apr 22, 2016
- +Olli Ries
While mass storage is cheap and plenty indeed, RAM is not. A Linux has to be "snappy" with dozens of applications running the same time. I wonder, if this can be achieved with packages, that bring their own libs and have them in RAM while others do the same with their flavour of the very same lib.
I tested BitwigStudio last year for a german magazine. As a proprietary all-in-one package Bitwig brings its own Java and all GUI-widgets, icons and so forth.
It works just great but it can hardly be avoided, that Bitwig hugs quite a lot oft the machines resources and you notice that, when you try to use other resource-hungry software while Bitwig is running.
Anyway: Bitwig is a music-production suite with unparalleled features, literally thousands of opportunities to set parameters and with the ability to build your own all-new application whithin the application.
On the other hand a calculator....Apr 22, 2016 - The article itself (Snappy Interfaces, link above) covers the X11 case in good detail, even with practical examples. I suggest reading it through and you'll see the developer there is missing a bit the point.Apr 23, 2016
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