Bug 397268

Summary:	KDE/Qt/C++/Python application template: add a distro agnostic package method
Product:	[Applications] kdevelop	Reporter:	Gregor Mi <codestruct>
Component:	Application templates	Assignee:	kdevelop-bugs-null
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	herzenschein
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.2.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Gregor Mi 2018-08-08 11:29:14 UTC

A commonly asked question for people starting with programming is

"How can I run my application on another computer?"

It would be cool to have a template that adds a dist/package command that creates a Flatpak (https://github.com/flatpak/qt-flatpak-demo), an AppImage or something else which is easy to use.

Comment 1 Thiago Sueto 2021-12-04 01:48:13 UTC

I agree, and it should be relatively simple to implement a flatpak build since Qt already provides QJsonDocument/QJsonObject and other classes that are pretty simple to use, and KDE already uses Json for everything flatpak. I don't think appimage/snap would be as easy to implement.

For comparison, GNOME's IDE, GNOME Builder integrates with flatpak builds.

I might be able to work on this in the following months.

Comment 2 Thiago Sueto 2021-12-11 09:45:40 UTC

Actually, now that I searched further, KDevelop *already* has support for flatpak templates, I dunno how I missed it. The only means to build it from within KDevelop seems to be via External scripts, though.