Let intellij update itself

[peey]

The "update and restart" button should become available. I suppose that updating entire flathub image might incur more downloads than the in-app update.

[x80486]

If you are using the Flatpak version you should be using flatpak update (or something similar) to update your Flatpaks.

There are very few applications that, once packaged in such way (Flatpak, Snap, etc.), will let you do in-place updates.

[peey]

There are very few applications that, once packaged in such way (Flatpak, Snap, etc.), will let you do in-place updates.

I agree, but since intellij seems to have the option, I'm suggesting you allow it (by chaning directory permissions)

I'm not sure how significant the difference is, but I think it might require less download overhead.

[x80486]

They write into the application's sub-directory, not outside of it — like any of the XDG sub-directories that it creates. The Flatpak container is read-only, what you are asking is impossible unless they change the path where they place the updates.

You can create a ticket in their bug and issue tracker for this to be considered; once that's implemented you can have differential updates in such way.

[peey]

Got it. I didn't know that that directory was read-only. Thanks!