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Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption (community.signalusers.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak.

This will make Signal show up in the verified subsection of Flathub, it will improve trust, allow a central place for bug reports and support and ease maintenance.

Flatpak works on pretty much all Distros, including the ones covered by their current "Linux = Ubuntu" .deb repo.

To make a good decision, we need to have some statistics about who uses which package.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Its easy. If you have a problem, report it. Instead of arguing about it they may have already fixed it.

If you want to run a proprietary app unconfined, do so.

But you also have to admit that reading some git config in a non flatpak directory is actively against the sandboxing principle, and thus requires manually allowing that access.

Sure, flatpaks need more popups that do exactly that.

Dividing "GUI apps" and other packages is easy. Go to a store, if it has an icon, install it via flatpak, if it has no icon, then you may not do that.

Appstream metadata so to speak.

Finally, packaging for Flatpack is a Pain In The Ass

Agreed.

okay maybe stop being so rude? Flatpak is the possibility for a secure system. We see how painfully slow adoption for that is on every Desktop, mac and windows too.

But it is great to have this, and I am sure we could make your Pycharm work by applying that override. The rest has to be done by the developers and it is important to care.

It is the same as with wayland, people need to change their software to ask for permission, follow standards and dont do weird shit. Only then the UX is solved.

And by the way what is stopping you from just using some apps as native system apps, and flatpak for the rest?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Dude, you're the one being rude. I was done with this conversation yesterday and you just keep coming back like it's an argument you can "win" by insisting that I think like you and change my behaviour to be like you.

You started the whole thread looking for input and when you didn't get the response you wanted you just berated the respondents telling then how wrong they were.

I'm done here. You've forced me to go digging around Lemmy to see if there's a block function.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ok strange. I gave you a good and not one sided response.

Like, totally strange. I dont see how my comment could have been offending in any way. You had a specific problem leading to a generalized conclusion.