I’ve been involved with Linux for a long time, and Flatpak almost seems too good to be true:
Just install any app on any distro, isolated from the base system and with granular rights management. I’ve just set up my first flatpak-centric system and didn’t notice any issues with it at all, apart from a 1-second waiting time before an app is launched.

What’s your long-term experience?

Notice any annoying bugs or instabilities? Do apps crash a lot? Disappear from Flathub or are unmaintained? Do you often have issues with apps that don’t integrate well with your native system? Are important apps missing?

  • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    You must not have xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.

    I think one recent release was also bugged but it’s fixed if up to date.

    • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      I do have xdg-desktop-portal-gtk on Debian Stable, which is currently at 1.14.1-1. I’ll look around to see if there’s more documentation on this method, because I would prefer to not use the debug variables if possible.

      Edit: I launched with GTK_DEBUG=interactive and I can see the theme inside the Flatpak gets set to Adwaita-empty instead of my actual theme, which does get properly returned via gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme

      • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        8 months ago

        The way to test what GTK actually gets is this command:

        gdbus call -e -d org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop -o /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop -m org.freedesktop.portal.Settings.Read org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme

        • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          That gets my normal GTK theme properly. I found a little more discussion on this here. Nothing very actionable but I did also confirm that my xdg-desktop-portal-gtk is running. It seems like this is supposed to be working, but I have a mostly stock Debian 12.1 KDE install and something seems to be wrong somewhere in the chain. I’ve also tried multiple GTK Flatpaks with the same results.

          Edit: Also, I have both my themes folder exposed and the theme installed as a Flatpak via the linked script.