Updated desktop apps like chromium
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Fri, 2016-05-06 20:50
pwFoo
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- 2015-08-27
I like Alpine and love to use it for docker containers. At the moment I build some Debian based GUI containers (chromium, volumeicon, ...) and would move the images to Alpine, but volumeicon is missing and chromium and old release in stable repo.
How will alpine support desktop apps? Is there an active maintainer and continuous updates to be up to date? Or would Debian (or another distribution) a better choice for desktop applications?
It is possible to compile volumeicon from source in Alpine, see http://forum.alpinelinux.org/comment/577#comment-577
I am trying to write an APKBUILD for it but I'm not having much luck so far :(
https://github.com/Head-on-a-Stick/configs/blob/master/volumeicon.APKBUILD
I will post back if I get it working.
For browsers, I think a Debian or Ubuntu container would be the way to go but it looks like you have already done this :)
volumeicon package has been submitted
http://patchwork.alpinelinux.org/patch/2013/
Hi ScrumpyJack,
first thanks for that!
It works, but it isn't sync with the alsamixer? Opend alsamixer and volumeicon to verify. Steps are different. Volumeicon starts with 5 per step and alsamixer changes 1 per step. Sound is low.
Sometimes it's sync (0=0 and 100=100), but Volumeicon 80% ist alsamixer ~50%. So it isn't straight proportional or a bug?
Great! :)
So I'll replace my debian based container an alpine one.
How long will it take until the package is available in the repo?