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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by idonotknowwhy on Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:38PM (#34917697)
So these integrate well now? I normally just use AUR for everything now, and remember having issues with a flatpak for rpcs3 a few years ago, ended up compiling from src
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by irthomasthomas on Thursday February 23, 2023 @07:05PM (#34918714)
No, most that I tried do not integrate well at all.
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by stjohnswarts on Thursday February 23, 2023 @08:02PM (#34919224)
integrate with what?
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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by boudin on Friday February 24, 2023 @03:35AM (#34922319)
Yes, actually flatpak triggered some interesting projects that are going beyong flatpak now: - pipewire for audio/video stream management that allows sandboxing - xdg-desktop portals to integrate the sandboxed apps in the host desktop environment and operating system. It's what allows the host DE ui to grant permissions (like reading/writing a file, accessing screen share, etc...)

It will depend how an app has been packaged, but when well done the sandboxing is invisible.

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