woodrow-shen / anki-snap

Anki for desktop computers

Anki

This repo contains the source code for the computer version of Anki.

If you'd like to try development builds of Anki but don't feel comfortable building the code, please see https://betas.ankiweb.net/#/

For more information on building, please see Development.

anki-snap's Issues

Set HOME: $SNAP_USER_COMMON?

Hi & thank you for maintaining this.

As Anki stores its media collection in ~/.local/share/Anki2, I'm wondering whether it makes sense to treat the collection as "common data" instead. Else, it will create snapshots on every update and a possible revert of the anki-woodrow snap would also revert the deck collection.

By setting HOME=$SNAP_USER_COMMON, this would be easily achievable. Quite a few snaps (e.g. Firefox) employ this strategy.

Mark Repository as archived and remove snap from snapstore

I have read that, you won't maintain this snap any further in your Update Note on the Snap Store. There is a new Community Maintained Snap available for the current Version: https://github.com/ppd/anki-ppd

To avoid confusion for users, I would propose to remove the outdated version from the Snapstore

Incorrect cursor theme is used

I'm running the snap on Ubuntu Unity 20.04 and the incorrect cursor theme is chosen. Apparently, this must be fixed in the snap:

ubuntu/snapcraft-desktop-helpers@da4d8f8

it means connection to the GTK common theme: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Ubuntu/gtk-common-themes/-/merge_requests/26

Just ship binary releases. Building Anki is endless pain.

Anki is a nightmare to build. Thus, I'm proposing shipping the binary releases from GitHub as is with minimal snapcraft sauce:

name: anki-woodrow
base: core20 
version: "2.1.47"
summary: Anki is a friendly, intelligent spaced learning system.
description: |
  Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it's a lot
  more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly
  decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.

grade: stable
confinement: strict
compression: lzo

apps:
  anki:
    command: usr/share/anki/bin/Anki
    desktop: usr/share/applications/anki.desktop
    plugs:
      - home
      - opengl
      - network
      - browser-support
      - audio-playback
      - audio-record
    environment:
      HOME: $SNAP_USER_COMMON
      QTWEBENGINE_DISABLE_SANDBOX: 1
    extensions:
      - gnome-3-38

parts:
  anki:
    plugin: nil
    source: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases/download/2.1.47/anki-2.1.47-linux.tar.bz2
    stage-packages:
      - libnss3
      - libxcb-icccm4
      - libxcb-image0
      - libxcb-keysyms1
      - libxcb-randr0
      - libxcb-render-util0
      - libxcb-shape0
      - libxcb-xinerama0
      - libxcb-xkb1
      - libxkbcommon-x11-0
    override-build: |
      export PREFIX="$SNAPCRAFT_PART_INSTALL/usr"
      echo "#!/bin/sh" > /usr/bin/xdg-mime && chmod +x /usr/bin/xdg-mime
      ./install.sh
      sed -i -e 's|Icon=anki|Icon=${SNAP}/usr/share/pixmaps/anki.png|g' \
        "$PREFIX/share/applications/anki.desktop"

This could be a sustainable way to maintain a KISS snap.
If you're feeling fancy, you could try to rip out the Qt libraries and use those from the kde-neon extension. But why bother. 🤷‍♂️

What do you think? Or are you not interested in maintaining the snap if you can't build from source?