Its even worse when you force Firefox to use wayland its icon doesn’t even show.

Edit: Oh since everyone now is confused; I only have the flatpak version of Firefox installed yet it doesn’t use the pinned icon and doesn’t even use the firefox icon under wayland at all.

  • halfempty@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I never intend to use a flatpak or snap, and avoid them like the plague. The whole concept is incredibly ugly to me, and wasteful of computer resources.

    • BlueBockser@programming.dev
      1·
      2 years ago

      The whole concept is incredibly ugly

      Depends on the viewpoint. As a software consumer, sure. As a software producer though, not having to deal with with tons of different packaging formats and repositories for different distributions and versions is a blessing.

        • xyz@lemmus.orgEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Yes. I do have some applications installed as flatpak. What’s the problem?

          • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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            2 years ago

            That’s the whole problem, don’t use flatpak. It’s the worst way of solving a problem that’s already solved.

              • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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                2 years ago

                Basically you install the application inside a little OS with dependencies each time you install a flatpak, that OS is rarely updated with security patches and most of the time has full access to the host OS. https://flatkill.org/

                This is a lazy and insecure way of distributing applications with no real benefits.

                • Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi
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                  2 years ago

                  Exactly. The QA of flatpaks is done in “trust me bro” framework. You can just go back to windows at this point.

                  If I install a package on my distro I know it went through a shitload of testing and I can be sure I am not installing some crap on my system.