Ubuntu SDK IDE

  1. Bug #1553827
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1553827

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Zoltan Balogh (bzoltan) wrote :

@Andrew

The Ubuntu Desktop Kit is made for UI prototyping and it contains a limited set of Qt APIs. Please keep in mind that it is technically impossible to backport _ALL_ platform APIs of the latest OTA images to 14.04 desktop. That would require to rebuild and repackage almost the whole archive.

If you want to understand more how Kits are made and what they are for please read this blog post: https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2015/03/18/everything-you-always-wanted-know-about-kits-were-afraid-ask/

At the moment if you want a desktop runtime environment your only option is to be at least on 16.04.

The ultimate and permanent solution will be indeed the LXD based build and runtime Kit. The LXD containers will do contain all APIs and all runtime tools. So the SDK will be totally decoupled from the host desktop.