Re: [Gimp-developer] xdg-app; was: WGO Transition Meeting

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 11:56 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Jehan Pagès wrote:
>
> > But what you are even more missing is that there is absolutely no
> > desktop integration when doing so (unless you know yourself Linux
> > desktop specifications, thus tediously create and place various
> > files
> > in locale directories yourself).
>
> I _specifically_ said that it doesn't have to be installable. I'm not
> missing it. I'm dismissing it :)
>
> > Really I have waited
> > for a long time to have something like this under Linux. xdg-app
> > looks
> > like it could be the solution;
>
> The question is whether it will run on existing arbitrary older
> systems.

Such a tarball *must* contain everything from GLib up, like 20-30
libraries plus GIMP. Every other approach is doomed to fail. So
it sill likely run on quite old systems too.

--Mitch