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Originally Posted by KevinH
The problem is sandboxing an app like Sigil that uses PageEdit as an external editor, that uses OpenWith to open lots of third party editing tools chosen by the user including gimp, svg editors, etc, etc, and third party python plugins that can run lots of OS commands and tools (including java) just makes no sense at all. The flatpak version is quite handicapped and limited.
The right way to effectively "sandbox" an app like Sigil is to run it in a VM with a full set of other tools that can be employed with Sigil (like PageEdit, gimp java, etc etc) to make a VM playground tool).
Have you thought about running a Manjaro VM (or some other linux VM that properly updates things like Sigil) on your linux box and not running flatpak?
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I have no particular affection for flatpak (or snaps for that matter - I replace Ubuntu's snap Firefox with one downloaded directly from Mozilla) but I was tired of always running the vastly outdated version of Sigil offered by the distro. And I didn't feel up to making my own build although someone on this forum did say help was available.
So when the Sigil website downloads pages indicated that there was a flatpak version that was always up to date, I went in that direction.
Maybe I should reconsider making my own build - it might be easier than undertaking a new and unknown venture of a VM, about which I know nothing.
