Ahh, I hadn't seen your new pull request. I will keep an eye on this now.
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Re: appimage
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Re: appimage
Since the freecad-legacy PPA does not provide a freecad-0.16 package for Ubuntu 18.04 (we'll have to fix that I think), I downloaded the latest 0.16.6712 AppImage.
At first launch here's what I got:
Thanks.
EDIT: hey, very nice:
At first launch here's what I got:
Thanks.
EDIT: hey, very nice:
Re: appimage
Nah. I got used to things like Unity/Compiz/Global menu too much. Will therefore extend my Ubuntu 16.04 alike experience for a while.
P.S. As for the AppImage good to hear it is working as expected.
P.S. As for the AppImage good to hear it is working as expected.
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Re: appimage
BTW, there is an ubuntu-unity-desktop package available in 18.04, so you should be able to install from the minimal server ISO and then install the Unity package to get substantially the same experience.
Re: appimage
Unfortunately such options lack detail and polish. In addition i am going to wait to see if GNOME will continue to support things like desktop icons through extensions and how good that will pan out. Did already try out options like KDE Neon and liked it. Therefore i guess the world won't stop. And in a year or two upgrading from Unity to something that makes more sense (to me) will likely be possible.kkremitzki wrote: ↑Mon May 14, 2018 8:46 pm BTW, there is an ubuntu-unity-desktop package available in 18.04, so you should be able to install from the minimal server ISO and then install the Unity package to get substantially the same experience.
Re: appimage
Ironically GNOME Nautilus devs just removed the ability to launch binary applications from Nautilus file manager. Therefore in the next GNOME release it won't be possible anymore to launch AppImages from Nautilus file manager. User will need to launch the AppImage from the terminal (at least for the first time until the launcher is added). Or hopefully some better option will be made available. But i am not all that optimistic that (better option) will happen anytime soon.
Re: appimage
Additional AppImage was made available on GitHub releases page:
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases
It is based on the Conda effort (by @looo). Testers welcome. Developers can use it to see how their modules are behaving in Python 3 and Qt 5 environment. End users are encouraged to use it in a FreeCAD day to day work alike tasks and report AppImage, Python 3 and Qt 5 related issues they might be experiencing. If Python 3 related issue is suspected best to report here:
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=12534
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases
It is based on the Conda effort (by @looo). Testers welcome. Developers can use it to see how their modules are behaving in Python 3 and Qt 5 environment. End users are encouraged to use it in a FreeCAD day to day work alike tasks and report AppImage, Python 3 and Qt 5 related issues they might be experiencing. If Python 3 related issue is suspected best to report here:
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=12534
Re: appimage
This is great work. Initial testing only show a couple of minor self-test failures that I will post in the PY3 thread.
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Re: appimage
Note that for Conda based AppImage support for delta updates got added:
Use Case:
Download the FreeCAD Conda based AppImage (only once):
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases
Download AppImageUpdate (GUI or the command line version):
https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageUpdate/releases
Make both AppImages executable. To check and if available to perform an update:
Some data on how "the regular daily update" looks like:
In short 250MB of local data got reused from the existing AppImage and only 3.6MB got downloaded.
Use Case:
Download the FreeCAD Conda based AppImage (only once):
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases
Download AppImageUpdate (GUI or the command line version):
https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageUpdate/releases
Make both AppImages executable. To check and if available to perform an update:
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# Using GUI
./AppImageUpdate.AppImage ./FreeCAD.AppImage
# Command line
./appimageupdatetool.AppImage ./FreeCAD.AppImage
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zsync2: Usable data from seed files: 98,563152%
zsync2: used 262709248 local, fetched 3827784