Flathub aims to be the place to get and distribute apps for Linux. It is powered by Flatpak which allows Flathub apps to run on almost any Linux distribution.
How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?
if you want to change app permissions, use Flatseal and add the needed directory. This is very easy. If it is something all users generally need, open a bug on their repo.
Installing a separate program to make the first program work the way it should in the first place, and opening bugs in repos, is abolutely 100% things end users are willing to do.
KDE has flatpak settings included, GNOME is doing their thing with unix philosophy and all. Flatseal works fine.
As I said, you should not need to edit those settings, maybe you need to, and if it generally makes sense (for example GNUmeric only has documents access, nothing else) this needs to be fixed.
The state of flatpak permissions currently is like that. They can never read each others storage, much like on Android with /storage/emulated/0/Android/data. So it you keep stuff stored inside these apps its safe.
Until they can use portals, many have permissions to read/write everything
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if you want to change app permissions, use Flatseal and add the needed directory. This is very easy. If it is something all users generally need, open a bug on their repo.
Installing a separate program to make the first program work the way it should in the first place, and opening bugs in repos, is abolutely 100% things end users are willing to do.
KDE has flatpak settings included, GNOME is doing their thing with unix philosophy and all. Flatseal works fine.
As I said, you should not need to edit those settings, maybe you need to, and if it generally makes sense (for example GNUmeric only has documents access, nothing else) this needs to be fixed.
Will not happen often for common apps
Reminds me of this XKCD.
The state of flatpak permissions currently is like that. They can never read each others storage, much like on Android with
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data. So it you keep stuff stored inside these apps its safe.Until they can use portals, many have permissions to read/write everything