I think they need to work on the lower level stuff and think about the concepts. I like the theming but it means nothing if we don’t have one click installs. I want to visit the website and then click open in software center so I can install it.
It would also be nice if they had permission popups and separate repos for Foss privacy respecting software and everything else.
As for the permission popups, they have already done that through XDG Desktop Portals. You might have noticed that, for example, apps with supposedly no filesystem access can still open files you selected via the file picker or opened via the file manager. Or that apps need you to explicitly allowlist them to access your location data. Those are apps that use the portals permission system. Unfortunately not all apps use portals yet.
Nice little QoL tweak that I’m sure app developers will like.
I do wonder if this’ll be present in the Gnome/Plasma/other software centres though. If it’s just reflected on the site I’m not sure how many will see it.
GNOME Software is way more aligned with them than KDE Discover. The permissions are completely illegible at least on Plasma 5. The themed colors will likely not appear
What Flathub actually lacks: a decent way of archiving and installing things offline (that knows how to deal with architectures, drivers and dependencies), an official and proper way of mirroring the repository.
No I’m assuming they’ve a limited number of resources, like everyone else, and they like to pool them in the wrong things. Besides they don’t want to open the door for offline and mirroring because then they would lose their privileged position of being the single largest and most used way to get flatpaks.
For all the crap Canonical gets about snaps, these are kinda trivial with snapd. snap download will download a snap and its related assertion, you can install unsigned snaps with –dangerous, and you can add trusted certificates to snapd with a single command.
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