Gradience, Flatseal, Loupe Image Viewer, and Resources running on Ubuntu 16.04

Firefox 118.0.2 running on Ubuntu 16.04

Door Knocker, Collision, and Cartridges running on Ubuntu 16.04

ASHPD Demo running on Ubuntu 16.04, showing a notification through XDG portals

According to Door Knocker, almost half of the portals are unavailable on Ubuntu 16.04, compared to only one unavailable on Fedora 39 with GNOME, which means Flatpaks running here may have more limited capabilities than usual.

  • Dojan
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    109 months ago

    Sounds a bit like docker and its containers?

    • TheEntity
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      179 months ago

      Yes and no. It’s much better suited for desktop applications. Try to run something playing audio in Docker. It’s doable but not pleasant in any way.

      • Dojan
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        79 months ago

        Well yeah, I only meant it sounds like a similar idea, I’d be surprised if it was powered by docker.

      • qaz
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        9 months ago

        It’s certainly doable to run desktop apps in containers, have you tried Distrobox?

        • TheEntity
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          39 months ago

          No, I didn’t. Looks interesting. Not something I’m looking for right now but I’ll keep it in mind.