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
Flatpak is a great comment ragebait source. Nativoids really be letting an image viewer access the entire filesystem and network stack
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
…did that ever happen to you with healthy maintained software? i’d be quite curious to know, because it did not happen to me.
my comments are sarcastic. hence my original comment
Stuff like this has happened to me but it’s not nearly this serious
seems like i took the bait, nice one. but considering that i’ve met people who argued that “a linux computer can’t be secure without flatpak” i’d put nothing past flatpak fans at this point.