It would be great to use these apps as Flatpaks, and there seems to be one.
I heard (didnt look, sorry) that the Kontact Flatpak has Akonadi etc. integrated to make it work.
Can the Account database and server run as a Flatpak runtime, and serve multile separate apps?
I know that GNOME Calendar Flatpak only works on GNOME as it needs evolution dataserver which is not available.
I wonder, does this need IPC, session socket, system socket or even native messaging?
This sounds very possible, meanwhile Firefox+Keepass and others dont work at all until the NM portal is there.
Merkuro is available when you install Kontact as a flatpak. It will install all needed components
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This is also stated on Merkuro project’s README:
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Thanks, interesting, never saw this with a Flatpak before.
This indicates that normal packaging (separate apps and a runtime) does not work here
I think it’s just that creating an Akonadi runtime would have been more trouble. I don’t think it’s impossible and it would be great to have split packages for KDE’s individual PIM applications.
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GDR
October 13, 2024, 8:24am
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I came here after reading the README and installing the recommended org.kde.kontact flatpak. This does not look like Merkuro:
Do I need to run it in some specific way to make it work? I’m not experienced with flatpaks, just ran flatpak run org.kde.kontact.
Looks like modern Breeze though.
@carl want to enlighten us?
mika
October 23, 2024, 8:06am
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You should have a menu entry of merkuru.
GDR
October 24, 2024, 10:28am
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I don’t - it’s installed via Flatpak and these generally aren’t integrated with the OS. At least on the computers I’ve used.
Is there a command line switch or something?
