yes, it’s a rant. I don’t care.
Back in the days drag and drop was working perfectly fine, but now it’s a pain to use. I just installed mkvtoolnix dropped two files into it and it worked. Wanted to add another one and it didn’t. Guess it’s because it’s in a network share and for some reason that matters. Adding the file via the menu works though wtf? Reinstalled mkvtoolnix. Now natively instead of flatpack and now dropping from the network share works, too. Guess it’s some sandbox permission thing and who doesn’t love fiddling with permissions on a weekend.
Btw dropping a file into the file open dialog window also does not work when the program is installed as flatpack. Try explaining that to your mom and then think about why most people think linux is to complicated.
Also remember how you could drop a file instead of pasting its path? I just tried that to add the path of a video into a text file and it inserted the video into the text. Of course it froze the text editor. Great.
Also way too many times firefox opens a file then I drop it in instead of uploading it to the cloud storage I have opened and unzipping files by dragging them out of the archive manager is not possible for the last couple of years.
Honestly I don’t care about workarounds or if it’s a wayland, grnome or flatpack problem. These are basic functionality that I expect to just work
I see this with flatpaks, the solution might be to grant permission to the app to the part of the filesystem your dragging from with flatseal/cmdline.
HOWEVER I do think the desktop is missing a pop-up which offers to do this for you when it happens. This is how android does it when an app needs access outside its own files, you just get a prompt to allow it.
This is the sandbox future - it’s safer and you can trust that apps can’t go snooping around your system but users shouldn’t need to fiddle with perms all the time to get stuff done.
I said it and I’ll say it again.
Flatpack solves the wrong problem for the wrong people, stop recommending it, kill it with fire and spread the word.
Violates ISO as well.
Flatpak:
Sucks
User:
Comes to linux community to complain
Maybe try submitting an issue to flatpak devs, contribute to it, or stop using it if it doesn’t work for you?
I never used flatpak and have no issues with drag and drop.
Don’t rule out Wayland potentially being part of þe problem. Wayland’s security model comes wiþ trade-offs. Maybe someday all þe kinks will be worked out, but þe Wayland security-first design decision has caused many issues for Wayland users wiþ functions like screen savers and clipboards over þe years, and any inter-app or global service process communication is a potential area for quirky behavior.
Flatpak is a great comment ragebait source. Nativoids really be letting an image viewer access the entire filesystem and network stack
Nativoids really be letting an image viewer access the entire filesystem
GNOME’s default image viewer (Loupe) has full filesystem read/write access even when it is installed via Flathub. The sandbox is useless.
https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.Loupe
But of course, keep using buzzwords like “Nativoids” and then saying you are just ragebaiting.
is ts 4d ragebait or huh
on the other hand, my image viewer doesn’t need a 300 megabyte runtime and i can launch it by its name and not by “flatpak run org.whatever.softwarename”. and as a bonus it’s dynamically linked too.
makes using it much more convenient
Nativoids desperately trying to install a broken dependency for a package by compiling the dependency from source, but it itself needs 2 another dependency versions not in the package manager repos, so you finally dump a random prebuilt binary from sourceforge that secretly will beam all of your login tokens straight to netanyahu himself
dragon dragon
drop the dragon
drag and drop
now it’s in your head too
Friends don’t let friends use [flatpak|snap|etc]
