SnoopJTIL that the directories that `snapd` binds are just hard-coded, right in the guts of the thing
user programs only rarely need access to files except in these specific places
copying every fucking file that I might want to share on Slack from my NAS into my Downloads directory *first*, to appease the petulant god-child `snapd`
Daniel Gibson@SnoopJ
if it lets you select files with a filepicker (instead of dragging them from the file manager onto the window), that *might* work with other directories
if it lets you select files with a filepicker (instead of dragging them from the file manager onto the window), that *might* work with other directories
@Doomed_Daniel unfortunately not, it's a "feature" of the sandboxing that access is denied across the board
@SnoopJ
weird, it *should* work, I think it goes through some kind of portal that has more access rights than the process itself.
I have a Chromium snap installed and in GMail I can't drag'n'drop a file from /tmp/ to attach it, but the "attach files" button which opens a file picker *does* work
@SnoopJ of course it could be that Slack uses the filepicker of its UI toolkit instead of the portal - but I thought it used Electron which should use the same shit as Chromium?
I know of this portal stuff (xdg-desktop-portal) from https://github.com/btzy/nativefiledialog-extended which can use either Gtk3 or the D-Bus based portal on Linux - another advantage of the portal is that it uses a "native" filepicker depending on your desktop, e.g. KDE/Qt one when using KDE. But maybe it's less flexible
GitHub - btzy/nativefiledialog-extended: Cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) native file dialog library with C and C++ bindings, based on mlabbe/nativefiledialog.
Cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) native file dialog library with C and C++ bindings, based on mlabbe/nativefiledialog. - btzy/nativefiledialog-extended
Glyph@SnoopJ snap is truly a marvel of engineering. they truly took the design brief, which I assume was "what if flatpak, but it *never* works" and absolutely crushed the implementation
💀 𝓕airchild 💀
Stephen Rosen@SnoopJ
I literally moved my home directory because using Ubuntu is advantageous for my job (vs any other distro), and snaps/apparmor cannot handle the possibility that a home directory is anywhere other than `/home/`
I'm not un-generous feeling towards the Canonical people. Packaging and distribution are hard. But this is relatively important stuff if you want the project to be taken seriously.
To me, snaps are about as important as upstart (read: I look forward to it being dead).
Brad