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Can a Flatpak control the file picker used by an app? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here's the situation: I use the Obsidian Flatpak with Plasma on openSUSE Tumbleweed. For a long time the Obsidian file picker was the Plasma version, and life was good. After an update of openSUSE and my Obsidian Flatpak, I'm now getting the Gnome file picker. Life now makes less sense.

I've confirmed that other Flatpaks are still using the Plasma file picker. I've also been investigating my xdg-desktop-portal configuration based off of what I've been reading here, but it all looks correct to me.

I can't decide whether this change was because of Obsidian, the Flatpak packaging of Obsidian, or an openSUSE change. Does anyone have tips on tracking this down?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I don't have Obsidian around, but this has been happening elsewhere lately too, almost certainly because of this underlying Electron issue: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/43819

Unfortunately there's not much you can do about it. Electron decided to depend on functionality not yet in a released version, and that very interesting choice flows down to everything that updates their Electron on the regular.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

my flatpak knowledge is malnourished; but looking at it from a high level containerization perspective, i would presume it depends on it the file system overlay is setup.

normally something like that would be defined in either the source image of the container or the mechanism used to modify that source image (eg dockerfile). if it's the latter it will be in the project's source and that source is probably on github. you should be able to search for terms in that source like "docker create" or "podman compose" to see how it's configured and use that has a starting point to search on something like google or openai.

this isn't an easy answer and i can go into lower level details; but your post contains a few key words like plasma and xdg-desktop-portal that says to me that you'll be able to figure it out how to make my advice actionable for your own specific situation if you think it applies and i hope that this lead pans out for you.