Flathub flatpak fliesystem permissions

HIRAM · August 3, 2021, 7:33pm

Setting all politics aside and hoping for quality responses…
It has been noted that users of the RawTherapee FlatHub flatpak cannot open images on external drives. This is caused by a filesystem permission setting in the FlatHub packaging script.

github.com

flathub/com.rawtherapee.RawTherapee/blob/99d0dbc36cedbffb122c67018e5f5e49b3c591ca/com.rawtherapee.RawTherapee.yaml#L19

    
      
          finish-args:
            # X11 + XShm access
            - --share=ipc
            - --socket=fallback-x11
            # Wayland access
            - --socket=wayland
            # Audio access
            # Play sound notifications
            - --socket=pulseaudio
            # Filesystem access
            - --filesystem=home
            # Access to temporary files
            # Share data between RawTherapee and external editors, especially GIMP
            - --filesystem=/tmp
            # GVfs access
            - --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfs:ro
            - --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd
            - --talk-name=org.gtk.vfs.*
            # Host commands access
            # for flatpak-spawn
            # Allow to use GIMP from the host as an external tool to edit photos

@scx proposes moving that permission to host, noting there would be resistance.

github.com/Beep6581/RawTherapee

Flatpack version won't allow use of secondary drives

opened 11:23PM - 24 Jul 21 UTC

chgruver

**Short description** I have a dual boot system Windows and some form of Linu…x (currently Mint 20.2) I also have a partition that I share between both OSes. The problem is when loading RawTherapee from a flatpak it shows the shared partition but I am unable to access it. If I install the non flatpak version from the repositories (these apps are not always the most recent version especially on Mint) it will work **Steps to reproduce** Provide the necessary steps to reproduce the issue. 1. Install Flatpak of RawTherapee 2. Make sure to have a primary hdd/ssd and a secondary hdd/ssd 3. Open RawTherapee 4. Try to access secondary drive **Expected behavior** To be able to access pictures stored on secondary drive. **Additional information** Some essentials: - Version of RawTherapee 5.8 - Version of your operating system Mint 20.2

In my opinion we could just add a line - --filesystem=/mnt and leave the home designator alone. As you know, /mnt contains temporarily mounted devices other than the currently mounted root filesystem.

Matt_Maguire · August 3, 2021, 9:42pm

What about color management? Does RT check colord to find out the ICC profile for your monitor(s)? If so, it will need to read those ICC profiles from disk (eg. /usr/share/color/icc, /usr/local/share/color/icc, ~/.color/icc, ~/.local/color/icc, /usr/local/icc, etc. – depends on the distro).

paperdigits · August 3, 2021, 9:51pm

I think its fine to change it to either, but you know I’m no authority on the subject. I believe I still have merge permission on the flathub repo.

Another option would be for RT to take control of the flatpak officially, which is what flathub really wants.

I had also thought to offer nightly flatpak builds, but that is pretty far down my list of todos.