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

[Peter Teuben]

I know.... again. but this is getting tiring.

On 5/31/20 9:06 PM, Carlos Echenique wrote:
> Flatseal to the rescue, Peter.
>
> Carlos Echenique
> CE Photography
> carlos at echenique.com
> On May 31, 2020, 9:03 PM -0400, Peter Teuben <teuben at gmail.com>, wrote:
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> 305.219.2433 | carlos at echenique.com
>>>>> Website: https://www.cephotographic.com
>>>>> <https://www.facebook.com/echeniquephotos>
>>>>> <https://flickr.com/photos/echenique>
>>>>> <https://instagram.com/cephotographic>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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