classic instead of confined

[christianrauch]

The snap is currently set to confinement: devmode which later will probably be promoted to strict. This will prevent executing other programs from inside sway. I would propose to set the confinement to classic to allow running as a full desktop and executing other programs.

[aiqs4]

Hi Christian,

my plan was to create a classic and a strict snap.

I'm just cleaning up the git-tree and will publish it soon.

In futher version of snapd, the classic confinment will be disabled. They are working on that.
But it will than be possible to allow access to other application.

[christianrauch]

In futher version of snapd, the classic confinment will be disabled.

Uh, do you mean that it will be disabled in your snap or the feature will be removed from the snap package format? Do you have a reference to this?

[aiqs4]

I heard it in a conversation on irc. Until then I will support both, classic and strict.

I think classic mode will be still there for the next years.

[aiqs4]

@christianrauch
What are you doing with sway ?

Would it be okay, if sway is strict, but able to launch other applications in classic-mode ?

What features are you using in "swaybar" ? Should it be "classic" or is it enougt to read network, battery, cpu, and so on ?

I asked, because on snapstore it is now difficult to publish classic snaps.

[christianrauch]

I initially wanted to use a sway snap to test Wayland clients, but I am also interested to use it as a desktop to replace GNOME etc. For the first case, a confined environment is fine, but for full desktop usage, I don't see how confinement is going to work.

The confined egmde snap adds client apps (neverball, stellarium, kodi) to the snap to demonstrate the use, but I don't think this is a longterm solution to be able to provide a desktop environment inside a snap.

[aiqs4]

interesting.

Just launched a request for "sway-classic"