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One big tricky thing is plugins, such as for OBS. ABI incompatibility and sandboxing can make it tricky and confusing for end users. Flatpak itself could theore
by jchw 4y ago
One big tricky thing is plugins, such as for OBS. ABI incompatibility and sandboxing can make it tricky and confusing for end users. Flatpak itself could theoretically provide answers here.
- sirsinsalot 4y agoI feel like you'd end up going full circle back to apt and npm and ...
- viraptor 4y agoThey'll have to do it at some point. There's just too many apps with plugins to ignore it. (Including basically all of audio production with their VSTs)
- lmm 4y agoYep. The main way I notice that an app is using FlatPak is it becomes impossible for me to type Japanese in it because the person distributing it hasn't done the complicated stuff you have to do to make IME work with FlatPak.
- jchw 4y agoI really hope Wayland helps here. It has an IME input API, so if that's sufficient, maybe it can displace out-of-band input buses on the application-side.