IverCoder

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IverCoder,

Sorry for the Windows emojis lol, I’m on a computer shop as I post this on lunch break

IverCoder,

binex-dsk is now shadowbanned on GitHub

IverCoder, (edited )

Evil Wayland is making their app crash

IverCoder,

Jeze3D.flatpakref

IverCoder,

On much more recent driver versions Wayland support has been further improved. I suggest going with Fedora Silverblue since RPM Fusion is pretty quick to roll out new driver versions.

IverCoder,

The app can then declare the network permission and it will still be marked as safe.

IverCoder, (edited )

As I mentioned in my previous comment, they use the portals API to access and save files.

IverCoder,

It’s actually Dippi but I don’t want to look like I’m advertising it here

IverCoder, (edited )

As well as FOSS too. Sandboxing is a security standard that should be followed by every software how open their code may be.

IverCoder, (edited )

This could well be an advanced video editor or an office suite if they take full advantage of the portals API without losing any functionality. Well, they can have the network permission, it would still be safe anyway.

IverCoder, (edited )

An app should not be able to access stuff the user did not consent to letting access.

IverCoder,

There’s Obfuscate, an image redactor, and Metadata Cleaner which is self-descriptive. Both works properly without any filesystem access at all, because they use the file picker portal to ask the user for the files to be processed.

IverCoder, (edited )

With a bit of modifying code to use the color picker and maybe rearranging the workflow to adapt to the new system, apps as advanced as DaVinci Resolve and LibreOffice can have permissions as restrictive as this (the network permission would of course may be needed but it would still be marked as Safe by Flathub).

You can use the file picker API to open the files or folders your app would need to access while having no filesystem permissions at all. You can access the camera, microphone, and GPS without the user devices portal, by simply using the respective portals where the user has the power to allow or deny access to such devices as they wish.

You can record the screen, take a screenshot, and pick a color in the screen by simply calling the proper portals, with the bonus that the user will be able to select if they want the entire screen, a specific window, or a specific area to be recorded/captured and whether the cursor should be shown or not.

Heck, even TeamViewer can be as this restricted without losing any functionality if they use the Screen Cast portal which allows apps to mirror input from a remote device! They would of course need the network permission, but that’s still safe.

IverCoder, (edited )

This is essential for the year of the Linux desktop to come.

IverCoder,

I just hope GNOME’s developers would stop being so insufferable. Lots of Wayland extensions and FreeDesktop portals unimplemented on GNOME because of the developers’ stubbornness. These also adversely affect to other DEs and WMs and Wayland’s evolution itself because other DEs would have less reasons to support a standard if one of the largest DEs themselves don’t support it.

I really love GNOME because it’s polished, but if KDE would be just as polished I will immediately switch. I know KDE works really hard to make the DE and the apps in general as polished and modern as possible, but I can’t still help but feel better at GNOME.

One example is the color scheming protocol by FreeDesktop. You can now make your apps look greenish or purplish or whatever color you want regardless of the toolkit they’re made with. Right? Well no, because the insufferable GNOME developers keep blocking the proposal because they want the colors to be hardcoded by the DE. They were offered a compromise where a DE can just offer a limited, curated color picker to the user when they go to the theming settings and allow any arbitrary color hidden behind commands, but the insufferable GNOME developers said no. And the proposal, last time I heard, is still stalled because of GNOME.

IverCoder,

Same for me, but IMO Bottles is better than Lutris.

IverCoder,

Here in the Philippines, we’re on full-blown Christmas decors since late August. Complement Halloween decor will be temporarily around a few weeks in late October. The Christmas decor is dismantled early February and replaced by Valentine’s decors.

I find the complaints of other people on this thread weird, for me I see nothing wrong with early Christmas decorations, and your region is already too late anyway. But I do want to hear about why some people find this infuriating.

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