6–11 Sept 2025
Technische Universität Berlin
Europe/Berlin timezone

Developing on Flatpak

7 Sept 2025, 13:30
40m
Room 2

Room 2

Conference Talk KDE Development

Speaker

Mr Aleix Pol Gonzalez

Description

Historically, we have developed our applications locally together with the system libraries and someone else has been taking care of the distribution of the application. With the introduction of Flatpak amongst other tools we have been breaking that barrier, thus allowing KDE to ship the apps to fellow Linux users.

While that works for the most part, there is still a last mile part of the story that I keep seeing our fellow developers miss which is the actual development time. We keep using flatpak as the distribution method rather than the actual environment where the application is developed.

In this presentation I'd like to explain how I've been doing such development personally with KDevelop and will also offer some ways of doing so for other editors in our ecosystem like Kate, vim or vscode. This will ensure a simpler development story and a more accurate QA process.

Biography

KDE Developer, KDE e.V. President.

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