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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's interesting. But man, the project name is not very memorable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The name definitely needs work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At this point you could just use flatpak.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Very true, but there are some packages not available. And Appimages have partial updates now, and dont need huge libraries but just the stuff they need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

At the moment I am not using your project, but I think this has its place even with Flatpak available. Because archiving Flatpaks is not as easy as arachiving AppImages. In example there are programs (emulators) I use Flatpak for, but from time to time I also archive a version of the official AppImage.

And sandboxing comes up as a point everytime people talk why Flatpak is superior to AppImages. So tackling that point is good effort to me.

Edit: Think about renaming the project. It's not very memorable and also the ai in the name suggests it has something to do with artificial intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Not my project lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thank you for posting this @[email protected]

I will later see if I can convince the gearlever dev to add aisap support, since that app targets flatpak users.


Also during testing Ivan discovered something interesting in fedora, sometimes some of the xdg-user-dirs variable for some reason were being defined as $HOME/ with a trailing slash instead of $HOME/Scrivania (desktop) for example, even though they were clearly defined in the conf file of xdg-user-dirs.

am has a check in the sandbox script that unsets these variables and makes aisap use their default location when that happens to prevent giving full access to $HOME, I don't know if flatpak has similar measures in place.