This project builds Notes and packages it as a snap for multiple Linux distros.

To build it on an Ubuntu 16.04 machine, simply go to the notes directory and type:

cd src
qmake
make snap

Developers: to install the locally built snap (i.e. sideload),

sudo snap install notes_0.0.8~snap3.gita80fd1c_amd64.snap

Note: replacing 0.0.8~snap3.gita80fd1c by the revision of the resulting app you've built. The version is defined on the snapcraft.yaml file.

Users: to install the app from the Ubuntu Store:

sudo snap install notes

Learn more at the Snapcraft site

Snapcraft features

This project uses the following Snapcraft features

• The qmake plugin
• A wiki-based part (desktop/qt) needed to set up the environment before starting Qt apps.

App functionality

The application works fine so far. Note that due to confinement data is being written to /home/$USER/snap/notes.

Warnings

XmbTextListToTextProperty result code -2
XmbTextListToTextProperty result code -2
XmbTextListToTextProperty result code -2

It's still unknown where the warnings come from, but seems to be harmless.

AppArmor denials

Apr 21 13:30:06 host kernel: [118072.276749] audit: type=1400 audit(1461238206.897:1500): apparmor="DENIED" operation="chmod" profile="snap.notes-dpm.notes" name="/var/cache/fontconfig/" pid=15243 comm="Notes" requested_mask="w" denied_mask="w" fsuid=1000 ouid=0

Denial trying to write to /var/cache/fontconfig, which seems to be harmless, but quite common amongst snaps.