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

[Stuart T Rogers]

I'm sorry but I do feel that flatpak is a complete waste of time, there 
are so many hoops to jump through to get digikam working as most users 
want and need that it is a wasted effort. Also probably most users would 
enable access to everything in order to be able to use apps they already 
have installed, thus completely negating the whole point of a sandbox!

I very much doubt that anyone anywhere in the world has had a security 
issue directly caused by digikam so to have to run it sandboxed like 
this is a completely pointless. I have not had any problems with 
appimage to test beta versions and my distros RPM works perfectly with 
immediate access to everything I need accessible. Also being a rolling 
release I get the latest stable releases very quickly.

Yes there probably are apps I would want to run sandboxed, if I needed 
them, but they are very few and far between and frankly none that I have 
seen so far available in flatpak.

Yes you need to use Discover in openSUSE to do the installs etc and so 
far there is no access from YAST. Discover can be used to install normal 
openSUSE programs as well so it may become the norm in future, although 
personally I prefer YAST or commandline.

Stuart

On 01/06/2020 06:13, jdd at dodin.org wrote:
> Le 01/06/2020 à 03:06, Carlos Echenique a écrit :
>> Flatseal to the rescue, Peter.
>>
> 
> you should understand that most new software do not take in account new 
> users.
> 
> I had to search half an hour to understand that flatpak kde software 
> install is "discover" (never heard before of this sift)
> 
> and there I could install flatseal, unknown in yast (I use openSUSE 15.1)
> 
> thanks
> jdd
> 

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