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by int_19h
2816 days ago
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The situation is similar on Win10 (and the approach is also the same - sandbox apps have to use a certain API to invoke the file browser and get access to some files or folders). But apps that don't do that because they're too old, just don't get access to the Store... or at least they didn't use to. Now you can ship non-sandboxed Win32 apps through the Store, and it doesn't even seem particularly obvious which ones are and which ones aren't. Windows 10 S only lets you install the sandboxed ones, but how many people use that? So basically Windows couldn't solve that - the users ultimately decided that they care about stuff working as it did more than they did about security. I don't see why it would be any different on Linux. |
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There will always be legacy applications that will stay on old toolkits and they cannot fully benefit from sandboxing.
However, a lot of widely-used Linux applications that are on older toolkits are currently working on upgrades. E.g. Inkscape and The Gimp will be Gtk+3 applications. There are often other carrots, such as proper support for scaling for HiDPI screens, etc.