equeim
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1 day ago Debian software center reports the flatpak tremotesf2 as needing read-access to all files. How is this necessary? Another Transmission remote app, transmission-remote-gtk, is able to make do with access to just two areas of the file system, instead of "everything".
It is needed to be able to open torrents (i.e. their downloaded files) from Tremotesf. You can download torrents anywhere, and Flatpak has a very annoying restriction: even though you can request OS to open a file through the portal, this only works for files the app already has access to (which is dumb since portal implementation can just ask the user for permission).
IIRC there is a portal API to request access to a specific directory but this will be annoying to users (it works through a directory chooser dialog) and would require me to add quite a lot of Flatpak-specific code which I really don't want to do.
Alternatively I can restrict access to ~/Downloads but that of course would mean that opening torrents downloaded elsewhere won't work.
The current solution just works and requires minimal effort from me which is the way I like it.
moonraker2
Debian software center reports the flatpak tremotesf2 as needing read-access to all files. How is this necessary? Another Transmission remote app, transmission-remote-gtk, is able to make do with access to just two areas of the file system, instead of "everything".