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by antimba 1914 days ago
> The only real problem is that the Gnome Software program lists these programs with a green "Sandboxed" badge when the app may have anywhere from full sandboxing, to literally no sandboxing.

The current mockups[1] for a UI refresh of GNOME Software have the “Sandboxed” badge and the permission details replaced by a context tile giving an overall “Safe”, “Potentially Unsafe”, or “Unsafe” rating, with additional indications and a safety dialog giving the full information. The ratings are determined from the permissions as well as license, whether the runtime is no longer supported, and whether the source is known.

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/software-mockups/-/raw...