[digiKam-users] Future of digiKam bundles...

[Peter Teuben]

i ran into another beautiful feature of the flatpak.....   I wanted to 
edit a file with another app, gimp, but its not inthe list, since it can 
only look inside of it container (without going through contortions). 
Even /usr/bin/gimp doesn't work.

I dunno about flatpak.

On 5/31/20 9:32 AM, Carlos Echenique wrote:
> Hmmm. The implementation of flatpak support is specific to the distro 
> being used. I am using a spin of an Arch-based distro and that is 
> where the files are placed on my system. YMMV.
>
> Carlos Echenique
> CE Photography
> carlos at echenique.com
> On May 31, 2020, 2:34 AM -0400, Stuart Rogers 
> <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>, wrote:
>> I used the flatpak override filesystem command in a console window.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> On 31 May 2020 01:01:56 BST, Carlos Echenique <carlos at echenique.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> How did you add the override? Flatseal stores them in
>>> .local/share/flatpak/overrides not in the system in order to maintain
>>> the
>>> sandbox.
>>> Carlos Echenique Photographer, CE Photographic
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 5:53 AM Stuart T Rogers
>>> <stuart at stella-maris.org.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Interesting this flatseal, just installed it and opened it up but it
>>>> does not show the override I have used to access my home directory
>>> which
>>>> allows Digikam to see my database and photo directories!
>>>>
>>>> Also as I said before it's a real pain that I am unable to access
>>> easily
>>>> any other apps like GIMP, I guess unless they are installed using
>>>> flatpak. Probably some way to do it but this all just seems total
>>>> overkill in order to run Digikam.
>>>>
>>>> I simply cannot see a reason to run it locked down like this. Yes
>>> there
>>>> are things where it would be very useful because there is real danger
>>>> but not this. I'll stick to appimage (assuming it continues) or wait
>>> for
>>>> the distro RPM.
>>>>
>>>> Stuart
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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