Re:Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020)
by tzs on Sunday March 21, 2021 @12:04PM
(#26531392)
I've long argued for applications to use file choosers they do not control, but not for security reasons. I've wanted it for UI reasons.
Somewhere I've got a screenshot of a Linux system I had with half a dozen applications trying to open a file. Each used a different GUI framework or widget toolkit, each of which had its own file dialogs, and so the user gets presented with half a dozen different file choosing UIs. It was completely ridiculous.
Making the UI suck less was not a good enough reason to get any of the major GUI frameworks to support separating file choosing from apps. Maybe improving security will be a good enough reason.
Re:Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020)
by antimba on Sunday March 21, 2021 @05:04PM
(#26534031)
Major GUI frameworks agree with you and have already adopted this approach and it is already used by many applications, and this has already been the case for years.
Somewhere I've got a screenshot of a Linux system I had with half a dozen applications trying to open a file. Each used a different GUI framework or widget toolkit, each of which had its own file dialogs, and so the user gets presented with half a dozen different file choosing UIs. It was completely ridiculous.
Making the UI suck less was not a good enough reason to get any of the major GUI frameworks to support separating file choosing from apps. Maybe improving security will be a good enough reason.