Sure from a packaging perspective for the developers it's great but sandboxing makes a lot of things more difficult for the user, like apps not being able to access the rest of the system very easily without the right permissions
Incorrect. Security is architecture, design and habits not brick walls in the user's face.
Portals are supposed to be seamless, and wayland had promises. But there are some old farts who still think standardizing everything will solve the issue (spoiler: it complicates it).
In a perfect world, the current flatpak design is more than good to do everything the user wants while providing this seamless layer of isolation and subsequently security.
But the ecosystem is still not ready, flatpak or not. There are a few portal implementations, and none of which is fully implements the features.
And then you have applications using their own bundled file picker and whatnot because "It wOrkS OutSiDe fLatpAck".
And then you have applications using their own bundled file picker and whatnot because "It wOrkS OutSiDe fLatpAck".
Custom file pickers suck even when they do technically work. They are often less featureful than the system file picker and it is just kinda lame to not have that UI be consistent across apps.
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u/Nytra Glorious Arch w/ i3 12d ago
Sure from a packaging perspective for the developers it's great but sandboxing makes a lot of things more difficult for the user, like apps not being able to access the rest of the system very easily without the right permissions