Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later

Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by grey_earthling on Friday October 02, 2020 @10:30AM (#24662970)

That screenshot is of GNOME Software, not of a Flatpak app. GNOME Software decides how it describes apps.

The GNOME designers are working on a redesign of this area: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/software-mockups/-/blo...

There are other software installers that can install Flatpak apps, e.g. KDE Discover.

So this is a valid criticism of GNOME Software, but not of Flatpak.

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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by smileybarry on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:22AM (#24663551)

You're right, I checked Plasma (Kubuntu) and it doesn't show the same "Sandboxed" indicator for Flathub. This is more of a GNOME issue, even a serious one if it existed for an whole 2 years.

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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by knocte on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:45AM (#24663798)

Great, let's create the bug report, otherwise GNOME devs may not know about this defect.

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