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0 pointssmallerfish4y ago0 comments

> especially IDEs and languages are unsuitable for running under confinement and need to be distributed this way

I think the solution to that should be something other than removing the sandbox. I see "portals" referred to elsewhere in this thread w.r.t. flatpak; does snap not have similarly?

> By passing --classic you give your consent to use an app package in this sub-par way.

Sure, but it's a terrible name. It should be --unsandboxed or --fullaccess. "Classic" sounds like a mode you'd want.

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bboozzoo4y ago

> I think the solution to that should be something other than removing the sandbox. I see "portals" referred to elsewhere in this thread w.r.t. flatpak; does snap not have similarly?

Snaps use portals like flatpaks do. The problem is more about frameworks you build applications with not being ready to consume portals. Turns out only some reasonably recent Qt versions can work with portals. IIRC Electron only landed support couple of months ago. Back on the host side of confinement, you need to run a reasonably recent xdg-desktop-portal (and a maching GUI integration bit). Some old distros do not provide any of those packages or ship version that don't work, so things are DOA.

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