Issues with v4.0.1 via flatpak

[Derek Tombrello]

d'oh... I'm not real familiar with flatpak, either, so I forgot all
about the sandboxing. Allowing tellico access to the user directories
foxed both issues. Thank you!




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On 10/29/24 8:25 PM, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> HI Derek,
>
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 8:27 PM Derek Tombrello
> <RebelTaz at robotsandcomputers.com> wrote:
>
>     I thought I'd give the flatpak package a try and I'm having
>     issues. Not sure if it's because it's flatpak or because of the
>     version itself but...I've included a screenshot to hopefully help
>     explain.
>
>     For one thing, and I think this is the flatpak doing t his, but
>     instead of saving my databases to ~/documents/, it shows them
>     living at /run/user/1000/doc/1de3a196/ ... I'm not sure if that is
>     the same physical location as ~/documents/ but I suspect that it
>     may be? That's just confusing.
>
> I don't understand the flatpak approach at all, so I'm not sure what's
> going on there. You're not the only one to see it, though.
> https://discuss.kde.org/t/tellico-images-using-run-user-1000-doc-90736b07/10688
>
>     More annoying, though, is that, no matter what I do, the View
>     settings are not being remembered. I do not want the Group View
>     (shown as "Keywords" in the screenshot) so I have to "Settings >
>     Unlock Layout", "Show Views > Group View", "Settings > Lock
>     Layout". And that works... for that session. It is not a stickied,
>     remembered setting. Every time I reload tellico, I have to do that
>     again.
>
> Are other settings remembered, but just not that one? If so, that's
> pretty weird. If it's a general problem of saving any settings, that
> may again be related to the flatpak build.
>
>     I'd really like to be able to do away with the "Welcome to the
>     Tellico Collection Manager" section, but I don't think I've ever
>     been able to do away with that. I usually just drag that down as
>     far as it will go, but again... that's not a stickied setting
>     between sessions.
>
> Right, the user interface is built around that entry view, since I've
> generally assumed that every user would need to see it. I can take a
> look at what it would mean to make it hideable. The layout should be
> remembered - so it sounds like that's the same issue, at least.
>
> Robby
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