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Re:Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020) by orra on Sunday March 21, 2021 @11:36AM (#26531203)
TBF you could put support into the two common GUI toolkits, to defer to a Flatpak portal.
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Re:Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020) by Spivak on Sunday March 21, 2021 @11:54AM (#26531327)
But that’s exactly what GTK and QT have! It’s what to do with apps that don’t use some abstraction that supports portals that’s the issue.
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Re:Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020) by orra on Sunday March 21, 2021 @02:40PM (#26532746)
Well, there’ll always be a long tail. But if you start with the popular apps and frameworks first, you get the most bang for your buck.

It wouldn't surprise me however if sandboxing is only a good model for GUI not console app.

IIRC the Windows 10X approach will be to put all non-sandboxed apps in the exact same environment.

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Re:Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020) by AshamedCaptain on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:45AM (#26542436)
As mentioned above, Flatpak is already doing the two most popular toolkits. Programs just don't use toolkits to open files. So there is not a lot of "buck" here, and the tail is rather long.
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