Pantherina @ Pantherina @feddit.de

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Thats a fair point. But the real and simple problem is "your phone number was breached somewhere, change it". I never get spam calls or mails, people that are not careful do.

Thats a lemmy problem, copy the link and remove the lemmy part

Probably, but I guess thats the lack of "it has to be updated". Just as distro maintainers do, flatpak maintainers or contributors can do as well, as its often pretty easy.

Why downgrade?

KDE has flatpak settings included, GNOME is doing their thing with unix philosophy and all. Flatseal works fine.

As I said, you should not need to edit those settings, maybe you need to, and if it generally makes sense (for example GNUmeric only has documents access, nothing else) this needs to be fixed.

Will not happen often for common apps

Cool! Thanks for the info

They are less secure than flatpaks and there was malware on that store

They use ostree afaik, so "they should" as in "I think they do"

https://gitlab.com/TheEvilSkeleton/flatpak-dedup-checker

And it should only download the diffs, not everything.

I mean if the apps are not maintained, they wouldnt work well as distro packages too, would they?

You should use WINE only through Flatpak btw

Flatpak is a project trying to fix many things at once

• make apps that work on every distro
• thus have apps officially supported by the devs, unlike distro packages mostly
• sandbox apps with an android-like permission system with a rating system
• use modern standards like delta-downloads, deduplication and BTRFS compression to save storage space
• make everything nice and user friendly

Flatpak shooould just download the diffs

Thats basically persistent portals. Would be possible if Distro portals had a button to give the app permanent (static) permission to that dir.

Would indeed be useful and not hard to implement. In the portal window just add a button "permanent" which does

    
flatpak override --filesystem=$PWD org.app.name

  

Want to open a discussion or Feature request for your desktops portal?

Yes, also it uses deduplication on the disk, where it is even less space actually used.

"Dont ask yourself if it works, but how it works"

For editing desktop entries, copy it fron this strange directory ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/applications/ to your normal ~/.local/share/applications which will always override the others.

https://github.com/trytomakeyouprivate/flatalias

Try this script I wrote and help improve it!

if you want to change app permissions, use Flatseal and add the needed directory. This is very easy. If it is something all users generally need, open a bug on their repo.

Try this aliasing script I made

No idea if it still works lol, but should tbh. I think its even pretty well done.

1. Lists your installed flatpak apps
2. Searches for already added aliases
3. Convert the appname to be the last part, remove - _ and make uppercase letters lowercase
4. Alias to bash, fish, zsh

Only thing missing is handling duplicate apps I think.

No snaps are insecure on other distros that Ubuntu, as they are only isolated using apparmor. Also they are nonfree by design, just no.

passkeys

Dont know, may already work? Keyword adaption

direct password manager integration

Not sure what that means, but probably native messaging, a biig missing portal.

Flatpak has an Inter-process-communication permission, so software could absolutely be opt-in allowed to talk, while keeping security for the rest. Apps cant see each others ~/.var/app/org.app.name/ storage though, never.