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One thing I really dislike with snap/flatpak is how it breaks connectivity with other parts your system. Example, I run Ubuntu and wanted to use a smartcard fo
by TheChaplain 4y ago
One thing I really dislike with snap/flatpak is how it breaks connectivity with other parts your system.
Example, I run Ubuntu and wanted to use a smartcard for authentication in certain websites. That didn't work because Firefox is in a snap, and can not communicate with the pkcs11 libraries...
To solve that I have to scrap Firefox as snap and install as debian package from PPA.
- tristan957 4y agoYou could try Flatpak and override some of the defaults. I would probably open an issue with Mozilla since they maintain at least the Flatpak. Not sure about the Snap.
- belthesar 4y agoTo some degree, I like this, but the experience for both to allow access is still pretty draconian. I'm not quite sure what the process is for Snap to adjust this (it might require a rebuild?), but I know for Flatpak it's common for folks to say "Use Flatseal to adjust the permissions of what the app has access to" to resolve problems like this. In an ideal world, the application would be Flatpak or Snapcraft aware (or there'd be a middleware to intercept these calls), and ask for access to parts of the system it needs.