Blog posts tagged "extension"

How to make snaps faster

A great user experience is (or at least, should be) an integral part of any software that involves user interaction. On the desktop, this starts with the...

How to ensure your snap uses the correct theme

An app is an app is an app. But in the world of Linux, things are a little more nuanced. Take VLC as an example. The software may be packaged ever so slightly...

Honey, I Shrunk the Snap!

The year is 1989. I bought a computer game called F-16: Combat Pilot, a flight simulator featuring free-flight, five types of single-player missions, a full...

The Hunt for Rogue Time – How we investigated and solved the Chromium snap slow startup problem

In October, we shared a blog post detailing significant snap startup time improvements due to the use of a new compression algorithm. In that article, we...

The Expandables – snapcraft extensions and the secret code

If you’re a snap developer, you know that snap development is terribly easy. Or rather complex and difficult. Depending on your application code and...

GNOME 3.34 snapcraft extension

We constantly strive to empower developers. Part of that aim extends to making development easier, for example improving build tools and documentation. As an...

Snapcraft secret sauce: KDE neon extension

Simplicity is the magic ingredient in any product design. For members of the KDE community, snap development has become that much simpler, thanks to the...