For example, theming shouldnt have to be a 10 step process. Make Flatpaks use your themes correctly. Another thing is QT Theming, why is it outside of KDE you can’t use the breeze style? It’s the best and most consistent application style for QT apps. And the final point, when is the naming scheme of org.foo.bar going to be fixed to be the actual name of the package rather than the technical name. Flatpak remove and flatpak install both work without giving the full name, so why doesn’t flatpak run? The naming is the only thing snaps have over flatpak. If nothing is been done how can I contribute?
The org.foo.bar thing is done so that multiple packages with the same name can coexist. It’s a design choice, not something that gets fixed. It would be nice to be able to type in the name of the package and it looks for the package like in flatpak remove and install though.
I just do flatpaks install something and it finds a few packages named something and let’s me chose. What else do we need, besides flatpaks being more cli friendly?
flatpak run also doing that
Like -Ss in pacman/yay. It’s so useful.
Yay is the best package manager I’ve ever used.
it’s like, literally one step, I just gave it permission to one directory and the it themed my qt and gtk apps. I wish it was on by default from my distro
better documentation eg: of cli commands would be an essential first step.
I add
--helpto commands and it seems pretty good, what’s missing?https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html
is a bit daunting. some context: im not personally complaining. im not even using linux right now.but back when i did uae flatpak… i found digging in to the internals to be something more aimed at experienced developers or package maintainers. and maybe thats not such a bad thing. but… modern linux systems are complicated when based on frameworks where things can break for obscure reasons.
Elementary has automatic theming iirc
Aliases for packages would be awesome, I don’t like typing out the full bundle id
I wrote a tool to convert appnames to easy run commands using alias.
https://github.com/trytomakeyouprivate/flatalias
That is already really useful, it is not tested though.
It takes the displayed appname, removes
-or_and makes everything lowercase.People used to tell me I have a flat a… oh… Alias.