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Is there a downside to Flatpak?
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There is some drawback. The main one : app can't communicate with each other.
Example firefox and his extension keepass. As keepass can't communicate with firefox, you have to open both apps and switch their windows.
You can use flatseal to manage communication between apps but that's not an easy process and may prove a security issue if you don't understand the technical jargon.
You only need flatseal on GNOME. KDE has it baked into the settings
Thank for the information. i didn't know since i use vanilla os :)
Kde has many things baked into the settings that gnome hasn't. GNOME is just more beautiful (and has PaperWM which is why I have to use GNOME)
can you elaborate on this? I'm on nobara and I had a hard time trying to get flatseal to work for syncthing
Where in KDE are those settings? I see Flatpak permissions listed in Discover (bottom of right panel,) but you can't change them there. Not sure where else to look. I've been using Flatseal but if it isn't needed ...
You can't change them? https://github.com/KDE/flatpak-kcm
Under the apps section, or just search "flatpak"