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[Guillaume F <marsguo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 27/01/2017 à 12:52, Matthias Apitz a écrit :
> On Friday, 27 January 2017 12:27:05 CET, Guillaume F 
> <marsguo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 10:01:32 +0100, ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Seems like the plan is to completely move to snaps and mark all open 
> > > issues as invalid unless confirmed on a snap device: 
> > > https://launchpad.net/dekko/+announcement/14423
> >
> > Thanks a lot for this info! I've been looking for a working snap of 
> > Dekko but couldn't find any. I'm sending this mail from the Dekko 
> > snap, very impressive work!
> >
> > I wonder why this snap isn't being more promoted. Snaps are a great 
> > way to follow development, do some testing and submit bugs. But you 
> > have to know it's available first…
> > Anyway, great work on this!
>
> How.and on which.device you installed it?
>
> matthias

I only installed it on my laptop, with Ubuntu 16.10. I'm glad it works, 
since I've found lately than following Ubuntu releases (16.10, 17.04…) 
and not sticking to LTSs (16.04) is very disappointing if you want to 
test new things. For example, the unity8-desktop snap only works on 
16.04 as far as I know (and 17.04, the current version in development). 
I understand the reason for that, but I feel like maybe it should have 
been a little clearer. I remember when 16.10 came out there were several 
articles on Ubuntu Insights telling you how you could test the latest 
and greatest Unity8, but a few weeks after release, the latest and 
greatest was only available for 16.04.

That's why I'm very glad to be able to test Dekko on my laptop! It has 
greatly improved and seems to be more stable.

I configured several accounts, including a "standard" IMAP (the address 
I'm writing from) and it works great. It took care of SMTP 
automatically, meaning you only have to write your email address and 
password and everything is configured.


Guillaume