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> flatpak portals are cool so long as you don't mind manually approving all file access And by “manually approving all file access” you mean “opening the file
by ryukafalz 5y ago
> flatpak portals are cool so long as you don't mind manually approving all file access
And by “manually approving all file access” you mean “opening the file in the file picker like normal”, right? There are some apps where using a file picker at all is awkward, but I’d argue in most applications it’s basically what you’d do anyway. Certainly most applications that non-developers would use.
The bigger problem is that lots of Flatpak applications still don’t use portals.
- taeric 5y agoI remember my first time using a photo application in a flatpak, I had no idea how to get images it saved to a place I could then upload with my browser. It was rather frustrating.
- kirbyfan64sos 5y agoWorth noting that Chromium upstream has support for the portals now, so this should be mostly fixed for that specific scenario.