In order for Snaps and Flatpaks to be adopted by the mass, they need to be smaller, and thanks to the hard work of Harald Sitter, there’s now a Snap version of the KDE Frameworks 5 collection of add-on libraries for Qt 5, which KDE developers are using to develop KDE applications for the Plasma 5 desktop environment. The idea for the KDE Frameworks 5 content Snap come after Harald Sitter tried to package the KCalc calculator utility as a Snap, which had no less than 70MB in size.
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