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KevinH · 11-25-2022, 10:03 AM

The sandboxing is inherent/built-in to flatpak and mandatory. For some users on older Linux boxes the version of Sigil is very old, so some people choose to use an app container like flatpak to get access to a newer version of Sigil instead of just building it themselves.

Other app containers like AppImage are not sandboxed by default.

Sandboxing single function apps on webservers makes sense but sandboxing a general use editor built with plugins and with the ability to open externals apps of the user's choice are not particularly well suited to sandboxing. This is the same issues faced by Kate when the flatpak version is used.

11-25-2022, 10:03 AM	#9
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,871 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	The sandboxing is inherent/built-in to flatpak and mandatory. For some users on older Linux boxes the version of Sigil is very old, so some people choose to use an app container like flatpak to get access to a newer version of Sigil instead of just building it themselves. Other app containers like AppImage are not sandboxed by default. Sandboxing single function apps on webservers makes sense but sandboxing a general use editor built with plugins and with the ability to open externals apps of the user's choice are not particularly well suited to sandboxing. This is the same issues faced by Kate when the flatpak version is used. Last edited by KevinH; 11-25-2022 at 10:14 AM.