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List:       tellico-users
Subject:    Re: Tellico in Flatpak
From:       Robby Stephenson <robby () periapsis ! org>
Date:       2023-09-28 13:45:10
Message-ID: CACFDV64d_5rGNP3xYkqYqtfMsuMdzUV3tcVNc+tX2y-a-j=tRg () mail ! gmail ! com
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Thanks for the flatpak feedback.

On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 10:47 PM Cliff Bar <klfjoat@gmail.com> wrote:

> Somewhere I stumbled across the info that you're relatively new to
> packaging Tellico via Flatpak. I installed the Flatpak so I can use
> the latest version and I have some information on Tellico-as-Flatpak
> behavior that you might want to document somewhere.
>

Yeah, I don't actually use it and am not familiar with packaging options or
approaches, so the feedback is helpful.


> The xdg-desktop-portal file chooser rightly sandboxes file accesses.
> Tellico files that I save/open show (in the Tellico Recent list) that
> they're stored in /run/user/$UID/doc/<7 or 8 lowercase hex
> chars>/FILENAME
>
> This works great for self-contained Tellico files.
>
> But the file sandboxing means that if I set or change the Tellico
> Image Storage Options to "Store images in directory relative to data
> file", Flatpak's sandbox disallows the image writes and Tellico throws
> errors left and right. It might be helpful if you could detect that
> condition (running in Flatpak without an override like below) and fail
> gracefully.
>
> I resolved this by using a Flatpak override mechanism to "open up" the
> specific directory to Tellico.
>
>     sudo flatpak override org.kde.tellico
> --filesystem=/home/$USER/PATH/TO/DIRECTORY
>

At one point, I was trying to add --filesystem=host to the build,
https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.tellico/pull/12, but I'm not sure if
that would accomplish the same thing or not. Flathub said it wasn't
necessary.


> I hope this helps you and future users!
>

Definitely, thanks!

Robby

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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for the flatpak feedback.</div><br><div \
class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 10:47 PM Cliff \
Bar &lt;<a href="mailto:klfjoat@gmail.com">klfjoat@gmail.com</a>&gt; \
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px \
solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Somewhere I stumbled across the info that you&#39;re \
relatively new to<br> packaging Tellico via Flatpak. I installed the Flatpak so I can use<br>
the latest version and I have some information on Tellico-as-Flatpak<br>
behavior that you might want to document somewhere.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, I \
don&#39;t actually use it and am not familiar with packaging options or approaches, so the \
feedback is helpful.</div><div>  </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px \
0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> The xdg-desktop-portal file \
chooser rightly sandboxes file accesses.<br> Tellico files that I save/open show (in the \
Tellico Recent list) that<br> they&#39;re stored in /run/user/$UID/doc/&lt;7 or 8 lowercase \
hex<br> chars&gt;/FILENAME<br>
<br>
This works great for self-contained Tellico files.<br>
<br>
But the file sandboxing means that if I set or change the Tellico<br>
Image Storage Options to &quot;Store images in directory relative to data<br>
file&quot;, Flatpak&#39;s sandbox disallows the image writes and Tellico throws<br>
errors left and right. It might be helpful if you could detect that<br>
condition (running in Flatpak without an override like below) and fail<br>
gracefully.<br>
<br>
I resolved this by using a Flatpak override mechanism to &quot;open up&quot; the<br>
specific directory to Tellico.<br>
<br>
      sudo flatpak override org.kde.tellico<br>
--filesystem=/home/$USER/PATH/TO/DIRECTORY<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>At one point, I \
was trying to add --filesystem=host to the build,  <a \
href="https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.tellico/pull/12">https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.tellico/pull/12</a>, \
but I&#39;m not sure if that would accomplish the same thing or not. Flathub said it wasn&#39;t \
necessary.</div><div>  </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px \
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I hope this helps you and future \
users!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Definitely, thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Robby  \
</div></div></div>



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