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| 2024-04-30 |
Mint plans Flatpak handling changes, promotes independent XApps |
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The Linux Mint team published their monthly newsletter for April and it covers a lot of topics. The team talks about testing new Fastly mirrors to improve package download speeds and reliability, swapping out the discontinued HexChat IRC client for Matrix, and dealing with unverified Flatpak bundles. To protect users against unvierfied Flatpak packages in the Flathub repository, Mint is taking a few steps: "We've been lucky so far. We really need to take action: We'll update the Software Manager to not show unverified Flatpaks by default. This will be an opt-in.
When shown, unverified apps will have a score of 0. The score can help a user build trust towards the application, but the issue here isn't the application, it's the fact that the maintainers aren't who people think they are. When shown, unverified apps will be clearly marked as unverified. We're fully aware this goes against convenience and will hurt Linux Mint a little bit. It might not be a popular decision but we think it's a very important one. By the time malware hits Flathub, we hope these measures and the measures taken by Flathub will have minimized the number of exposed users and raised awareness around the risks which are being taken."
The Mint team also talks about XApps, the Linux Mint replacements for GNOME applications which do not work properly on non-GNOME desktop. The Mint team points out that, while XApps are used almost exclusively on Linux Mint, they could be run on other distributions, such as Xubuntu which currently suffers from GNOME applications which don't integrate with Xfce. "What should have happened ideally would have been more communication and an independent XApp project, not hosted or maintained by Linux Mint, but by people from various desktop and/or distributions. XApp should be its own organization, with its own GitHub repositories, chat room, website, etc. It should be a space which facilitates collaboration, compatibility and the development of application which works everywhere, not just apps which are needed or maintained by us." People interested in collaborating on an independent XApps suite can visit the new XApp Matrix channel. |
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