gnome-shell-integration addon with Firefox Flatpak version error
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(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P3)
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(Reporter: gabriel.reis.mattoso, Unassigned)
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(Blocks 1 open bug)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:87.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/87.0
Steps to reproduce:
- Use a linux distribution with DE (Desktop Environment) = Gnome Shell.
- Fedora Workstation 34 was used for this test, but was also reproduced in other Linux based OS
- Install Firefox flatpak version: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.firefox
- Install extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gnome-shell-integration/
- Go to: https://extensions.gnome.org/
- For installing/ enabling an extension:
- Click in an extension's link
- Click on the switch to the ON state
- For disabling an extension:
- Click in an installed extension's link
- Click on the switch to the OFF state
- For excluding an extension:
- Click in an installed extension's link
- Click on the X button
- For installing/ enabling an extension:
Actual results:
- A banner with following message appears: "Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, native host connector is not detected. Refer documentation for instructions about installing connector."
- Website doesn't recognize the version of Gnome Shell is being used to filter extensions compatible with current version
- When in a extension's page, the ON/OFF switch and the X button doesn't appear
Expected results:
- No error messages appear
- website recognize Gnome Shell version
- Being able to install/ enable/ disable/ remove extension
Additional Information (field hidden from bug entry form):
- Following the same steps with the Firefox provided by the distribution errors doesn't occour
- Issues were open in the official extension's Gitlab page. According with the response from the maintainer to the issue 22, this is not an extension issue.
- A Topic was open in the Flathub Discourse to try to aggregate information and search for some people interested to help:
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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I'm not sure this will even work based on Flatpak architecture? The Flatpak would need to communicate with an application outside of the Flatpak.
Sorry, I don't fully understand the subject, but I can point some things:
- According to Pipe app project website, it is just a frontend for a daemon that must run on the user's machine, so a flatpak app can somehow communicate outside the container. And it's available on Flathub
- The dconf app changes several gnome-shell settings, including editing settings for each extension via the path of dconf database
/org/gnome/shell/extensions/[extension_ID]/[key]and enabling/disabling extensions by changing the value of the key/org/gnome/shell/enabled-extensions. And it's available on Flathub - A manual way to install extensions in gnome-shell is to place the folder containing their files in
~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions. And having access to a machine's folder I'm sure it's possible through portals, and if not possible, using filesystem access. Here is the portal's documentation
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Comment 4•3 years ago
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There is also the possibility to run commands outside the sandbox with the command flatpak-spawn.
Here is a pull request to Obs Studio as example that uses it. It’s description show a better introduction to the subject. Here is it's manifest.
If you have any technical questions, you can create a topic in https://discourse.flathub.org/c/general/. People will try to help.
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Comment 5•2 years ago
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There's currently no portal for the native messaging hosts so that's why it does not work. The application in flatpak cannot run commands on host. So we need a dbus api for that first. There's been some initiative from the Ubuntu guys, discussed there:
https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/native-messaging-support-in-strictly-confined-browser-snaps/26849
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Updated•2 years ago
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