https://whynothugo.nl/tags/flatpak/Recent content in Flatpak on WhyNotHugoHugo -- gohugo.ioenTue, 20 Jun 2023 18:32:54 +0200https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/06/20/understanding-the-xdg-access-portal/Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/06/20/understanding-the-xdg-access-portal/The upcoming version of Firefox 116 will use Pipewire for camera access. This sparked my curiosity and I wanted to know if my setup would work for this. In recent times, Firefox has been moving rather quickly, adding dependency on these Flatpak portals (even in scenarios where Flatpak is not involved). This is no exception. Access to the camera via pipewire is mediated by the camera portal, an interface of the xdg-desktop-portal.https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2021/11/26/the-issue-with-flatpaks-permissions-model/Fri, 26 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2021/11/26/the-issue-with-flatpaks-permissions-model/There seems to be a lot of discussion of whether Flatpak is terrible or is great, whether it’s the future or whether it’s complete trash. I think Flatpak does a lot of very useful things, and requires more work in other aspects. I’m not sure what the The One True Package Manager™ will be, but I’m sure we can all learn some lessons from flatpak. Isolation[permalink] Flatpak itself does a pretty good job of isolating applications.