On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 17:45 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > One of the big problems with containers (including Flatpaks) is that > > they don't integrate well with the desktop environment. Then the app > > relies on the DE to (say) print things, there's usually some jumping > > through hoops to be done. > > I routinely run apps on my server that have no issues, whatsoever, with the > desktop I'm running on my laptop (the one that's logged in to the server). > >
That's not at all what I meant. A DE includes a layer of inter-app communication between its components which doesn't work well when the apps are sandboxed from each other. A typical example: a Flatpak-based Email MUA doesn't know what other apps you have installed, so when you click on something in a message it can only offer you a picker to decide which app has to process it rather than using your system default. Running apps on a server and communicating with a client desktop is a different situation. > Of course, they are X11 apps, and they don't seem to pay much attention that > they're using my ssh-tunneled X11 connection. It just works. > > I estimate that I'll be able to use my setup for no more than 2-3 years, > max, before X11 is sacrificed on the altar of progress, and latest and > greatest. The issue is not specific to one windowing system. Both X11 and Wayland based DEs have the same problem in this respect. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
