Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
During last year’s GSoC, Soumyadeep Ghosh, under the mentorship of Scarlett Moore and Aleix Pol, developed a KCM (Settings Module) for KDE to manage snaps installed in a KDE based system.
In this talk, Soumyadeep goes through that project, showcasing his work in the upstream snapd-glib api, how others can also easily understand and manipulate snapd REST APIs, and how this KCM will make it very easy to manage snaps directly from a fast, handy graphical interface. He also explains his development model, how he iteratively builds over, and how the Snap KCM came to the way it currently is.
About Soumyadeep
Soumyadeep Ghosh is a member of the Snapcrafters team. He created and maintains the Snap KCM for KDE. Outside KDE, he created and maintains a number of content snaps, and helped create the CI used by snapcrafters. Outside Snapcrafters, he is also Ubuntu Member and helps out with various other organizations such as the Ubuntu Flutter Community, NickVisionApps, Pacstall, and more.
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During last year’s GSoC, Soumyadeep Ghosh, under the mentorship of Scarlett Moore and Aleix Pol, developed a KCM (Settings Module) for KDE to manage snaps installed in a KDE based system.
In this talk, Soumyadeep goes through that project, showcasing his work in the upstream snapd-glib api, how others can also easily understand and manipulate snapd REST APIs, and how this KCM will make it very easy to manage snaps directly from a fast, handy graphical interface. He also explains his development model, how he iteratively builds over, and how the Snap KCM came to the way it currently is.
About Soumyadeep
Soumyadeep Ghosh is a member of the Snapcrafters team. He created and maintains the Snap KCM for KDE. Outside KDE, he created and maintains a number of content snaps, and helped create the CI used by snapcrafters. Outside Snapcrafters, he is also Ubuntu Member and helps out with various other organizations such as the Ubuntu Flutter Community, NickVisionApps, Pacstall, and more.
🌍 Ubuntu Summit 25.10 is a showcase for the innovative and the ambitious.
Find out more: ubuntu.com/summit
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