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Is there a downside to Flatpak? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically title.

I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

There is some drawback. The main one : app can't communicate with each other.

Example firefox and his extension keepass. As keepass can't communicate with firefox, you have to open both apps and switch their windows.

You can use flatseal to manage communication between apps but that's not an easy process and may prove a security issue if you don't understand the technical jargon.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (3 children)

You only need flatseal on GNOME. KDE has it baked into the settings

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thank for the information. i didn't know since i use vanilla os :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Kde has many things baked into the settings that gnome hasn't. GNOME is just more beautiful (and has PaperWM which is why I have to use GNOME)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

can you elaborate on this? I'm on nobara and I had a hard time trying to get flatseal to work for syncthing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Where in KDE are those settings? I see Flatpak permissions listed in Discover (bottom of right panel,) but you can't change them there. Not sure where else to look. I've been using Flatseal but if it isn't needed ...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can't change them? https://github.com/KDE/flatpak-kcm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Under the apps section, or just search "flatpak"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think they've actually made progress fixing this specific issue

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It was a shitshow when I looked at it a few weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

to be fair there is a portal, it need to get implemented tho