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The Future of Flatpak

At the Linux Application Summit (LAS) in April, Sebastian Wick said that, by many metrics, Flat [...]

By Joe Brockmeier May 14, 2025 At the Linux Application Summit(LAS) in April, Sebastian Wick said that, by many metrics, Flatpak is doing great. Wick said that he would like to move filtering from xdg-dbus-proxy directly to the D-Bus message brokers and provide policy based on a cgroups path. Wick had a number of ideas that he would like to see implemented for portals, such as support for autofilling passwords, Fast Identity Online (FIDO) security keys, speech synthesis, and more.

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