Speaker
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.