| There are several technical falsehoods on https://flatkill.org/2020/. For example, this one: > Almost all popular apps on Flathub still come with filesystem=host or filesystem=home permissions TheEvilSkeleton counts them and 23 out of 50 is not almost all, so that is a technical falsehood, albeit not one that invalidates the author’s point. There are other falsehoods that do invalidate the author’s points. This one, for example: > Two years is not enough to add a warning that an application is not sandboxed if it comes with dangerous permissions (like full access to your home directory)? This is wrong because GNOME Software did, before the flatkill author’s 2020 update, add a warning (which is missing from the author’s screenshot) indicating that the app has high permissions and can access all files and folders (it’s still described as sandboxed, which technically it is, just with the ability to escape the sandbox; further changes to GNOME Software to make this clearer are already planned). The author’s screenshot was presumably taken using an outdated version of GNOME Software; they should have checked more recent versions before making claims about what features developers did or did not add. And here’s another falsehood: > So I need to run multiple fcitx daemons on my desktop and switch between them as I switch flatpak apps depending on which fcitx libraries are bundled with that app The flatkill author misunderstood the implications of the bug report (in addition to seemingly misunderstanding where fcitx comes from; it’s part of the runtimes, rather than being bundled with each app). The issue was caused by a change in Flatpak, fixed in fcitx, and there is no need for the fcitx versions to match going forward. |