Aha I’m not a developer so couldn’t look at Flatpost that way.
I do hope Bazaar comes with the ability to see and change permissions easily. Not to replace Flatseal, but to make new users aware that they can actually control permissions easily from 1 single place.
I didn’t even know Flatseal existed and didn’t know you could change permissions for Flatpak until, out of boredom, scrolled through the apps that are pre installed and tried a few that i didn’t know about.
I immediately thought HUH, why don’t I see the permissions during/after installing? Or at least have a button with permissions in my list of installed apps.
Again not to replace Flatseal, I’m a simple user but can imagine more finegrained controls are needed for many others. But just to have a certain level of permission management.
Ideally, we wouldn’t have to use flatseal, or its ilk. When run, an app would check its permissions, then ask for whatever permissions it needed. With a password, if warranted.
E.g. I’ve been around and around with Flameshot. After running from the command line, and mucking around with permissions, it can finally act like it’s capturing the screen, but won’t copy or save the image.
I shouldn’t have to know or discover network socket stuff (or whatever) to take a screen shot with flameshot.
</rant, I guess>
Yeah so kolumni started hanging out on the Discord since we’ve really started to get to work together now and started aligning on things. The cool thing is that we wanted to be able to style the store how we want for each image, so the store UI you see there is CSS driven. Looks slick. The dinos are going to look really good!
We get the added bonus of having the super-search use the dedicated search ui part of bazaar, which is super fast, which is a natural way to use it and I consider this the primary way I do it. When I need an app it means I need to get something done so I need to be able to go fast. The store experience here is when you’re more of a “Ooh I wonder what cool new stuff is out there” mood.
We can also now all collectively manage these sections of the store, while keeping the entire catalog a search away. That way we can focus our efforts on highlighting really good apps. Bazzite has lots of categories it could fulfill, and all the dx images could have some really, really kickass developer sections, and the Aurora and bluefin sections would match their respective desktop’s toolkit, etc.
And the really, really nice surprise feature. If people wanna help getting this into the image template then you could just have your list of flatpaks in your git repo and then you’d always have your favorite apps on a clean install. Also distro agnostic, you could do this anywhere. All now possible!
Hopefully this will encourage some of you to help kolumni out - the amount of progress here is so cool!
Any links to that Flatpak Manifest that was mentioned somewhere? Looks great - I’d like to give it a quick whirl on Stable branches of Bazzite and Bluefin.
It looks like a nice store and well thought out. I’m looking forward to using it. However when I run it, I get a “Could not retrieve remote content. Check your internet connection” message (and I’m writing from that internet connection now ). I’m on Bluefin-dx (ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-dx-asus-nvidia-open:latest) and the bazaar version is bazaar-0.0.git.803.830c82e4.cec015e-1.fc42.x86_64 Is this just because it’s under development, or is this a “my machine/image problem”?
Will Bazaar show whether a flatpak is verified on Flathub? I find myself going to flathub dot org to check whether an app is verified, and then I’ll download it from my store. Having it in the store itself would be real nice.
). I’m on Bluefin-dx (ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-dx-asus-nvidia-open:latest) and the bazaar version is bazaar-0.0.git.803.830c82e4.cec015e-1.fc42.x86_64 Is this just because it’s under development, or is this a “my machine/image problem”?
