Flatpak integration
Current problems
- Users, designers, etc. cannot try work in progress easily to provide early feedback.
- Developers doesn't use a single environment to develop.
- Reporters doesn't have a canonical environment to test their issues before reporting.
Goals & use cases
- Everyone involved upstream should use same enviroment, like a "safe place", including non developers when they report issues.
- Developers should find easy to test all the functionality of GNOME
- ...
Relevant art
Endless OS comes to mind.
Proposal & plan
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Nautilus runs inside Flatpak -
All files except blacklisted directories in Flatpak can be accessed -
Plugins work -
Trash works -
Admin backend works -
Network locations work