Its even worse when you force Firefox to use wayland its icon doesn’t even show.

Edit: Oh since everyone now is confused; I only have the flatpak version of Firefox installed yet it doesn’t use the pinned icon and doesn’t even use the firefox icon under wayland at all.

    • @BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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      11 year ago

      From what I gather nix is more of a next generation package manager than a application container/sandbox which means potential security problems with old libs could be less, or rather they are probably at the same level as rpm/deb.

      I don’t see any problems with rpm/deb/etc. ending up getting the boot by nix or another package manager just because they are better, that’s just evolution.

      As someone said about flatpak/snap that their ‘hidden’ strength is distribution of proprietary software, that’s fine by me if that’s the main usage of them.

      The sandbox feature can be solved by SELinux/docker/and several other ways depending on usecase.

      • qaz
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        11 year ago

        Sandboxing is not the main feature of Flatpak/Snap, being able to ship an app for various distributions without having to configure them separately is. Docker/Podman can do that, but then you would actually be shipping an entire distro.

        • @BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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          11 year ago

          Regarding docker/podman that’s why I wrote depending on usecase, for servers it makes sense to distribute because of scalability, on a single user OS it does not.

          From what you write I guess that nix does the distribution part of flatpak, so that seems fine, there’s probably a catch/limitation somewhere, there usually is, but it could be an acceptable one.