[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#835595: [flatpak] Impossible to run the app version from debian reposetory after

Quabla quabla at hemio.de
Sat Aug 27 14:48:11 UTC 2016


> That's gnome-maps from Debian, not gnome-maps from Flatpak.

Right. Sorry, I was confused because the gnome-shell applications 
overview and the top bar says "(Nightly) Maps" but it is the Debian 
version. So the shell is probably associating Flatpak's .desktop file 
with the Debian binary?

Is that a gnome-shell bug or Flatpaks fault? Would it be possible that 
you assign the bug accordingly?

> Run "gnome-maps" in a Terminal or something. Flatpak apps aren't in
> $PATH (you'd run "flatpak run org.gnome.Maps" from Terminal).

Right, that works. It's just called "Nightly" in the top bar, but it's 
not.

>>  Gnome (Software and start menu) only knows about one installed 
>> version
>>  of Gnome Maps.
> 
> This is by design, and is not Flatpak's decision. If you want two
> independent versions of a particular app, you need to ask their 
> upstream
> developer to install the Flatpak under a different name, perhaps as
> "org.gnome.Maps.Nightly.desktop".

This sounds like Gnome Software will support identical names:

"https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2016/07/05/flatpak-and-gnome-software/"

But that's certainly a gnome-software thing.

Thanks.



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