Modify flatpak permissions table

[00sapo]

As the title suggests, it would be super nice to be able to modify the table shown by the command flatpak permissions with a GUI.

It's 24 hours now that I try to modify a filetype association stored by a Flatpak app in such table (desktop-used-apps). I was expecting Flatseal to show such stuffs if they could be stored/set/replaced on a per-app basis.

I finally found it even though this Flatpak option is poorly documented.

Flatseal would basically wrap the following commands:

• flatpak permission-show
• flatpak permission-set
• flatpak permission-remove
• flatpak permission-reset

[nerdroychan]

I also find that this would be very helpful. The permissions of a flatpak application itself and the permissions granted by xdg-desktop-portal seem decoupled. An application without any R/W permission to any directories can still access files/directories if the user selected them via the portal's file selector.

https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/wiki/The-Permission-Store

[tchx84]

Flatseal already interacts with the permission store (see the Portals section of the UI) but, to display and interact with every possible value stored by any arbitrary portal, it would require some non-trivial re-design of that section and I am currently short of time.