My name is Oliver Calder and I am part of the Snapd team at Canonical. In this post, I’m excited to share some more information about a project I’ve been working on over several years with a talented group of people across the AppArmor, Desktop, Design, and Snapd teams: Permissions Prompting. Permissions Prompting is a new layer of user-defined security which empowers users to control at runtime the level of access applications have to the host system. There was an excellent post from around t...
They have been trying to work with the Flatpak people to make it a standard everyone could share. After half a decade of frustration I think they just gave up and decided to do it themselves.
It’s a good improvement. They needed this years ago (or ideally, when they first started using snaps).
They have been trying to work with the Flatpak people to make it a standard everyone could share. After half a decade of frustration I think they just gave up and decided to do it themselves.