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what does this mean for Flatpak? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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should i be worried installing these two? what does it mean though?

(these are captured from Pop! OS software manager)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The first one allows Flatseal to edit the permissions of Flatpak apps including itself.

System folder access allows a app to read the filesystem. (But not system internals)

System settings access allows the app to change settings

So the only concerning one is Xournal. However, I happen to know that it doesn't support XDG portals which is how apps ask for permissions to files so it needs full file access. As for the system settings I have no idea.