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Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption (community.signalusers.org)

submitted 9 months ago by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak.

This will make Signal show up in the verified subsection of Flathub, it will improve trust, allow a central place for bug reports and support and ease maintenance.

Flatpak works on pretty much all Distros, including the ones covered by their current "Linux = Ubuntu" .deb repo.

To make a good decision, we need to have some statistics about who uses which package.

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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Personally I install it with pacman and generally avoid Flatpaks due to annoying problems I've had with it limiting filesystem access in the past. My biggest problem is that it seems to "forget" that I'm logged in if I don't use it regularly, meaning I have to regularly re-auth it on my desktop since I use it infrequently there.

[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is just so bad. I can't use anything snap/flatpack cuz it simply won't let me send a file. As it runs on it's on file subsystem and doesn't have access to anything else.

On the other hand, an app that has access to my entire hard-drive is awfully insecure, right? So, what's the solution?

in the meantime they could include an option "I allow this app to acess my whole $HOME, thanks, I need it cuz I am a user not a security researcher". Until then I'm not touching flatpack

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago

You can use Flatseat to config the permissions (including files) that Flatpaks have. It has a nice GUI

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