Talk:Flatpak

Flatkill
Flatkill is not a good resource, it's both FUD and factually innacurate. It gets brought up in every discussion about flatpak and gets dissected every time:


 * https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/desktop-linux/1052968-flatpak-1-2-likely-coming-around-year-s-end-with-new-features/page3#post1053235
 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26530548
 * https://theevilskeleton.frama.io/2021/02/11/response-to-flatkill-org.html


 * I agree that Flatkill should not be mentioned on this wiki page at all, it's complete and utter FUD. It's also a pretty nasty bias against Flatpak, on what's supposed to be a technical documentation like the Gentoo wiki. I'll be removing that section as soon as possible.
 * To future editors, I'm going to refrain to make any mention of this "flatkill" debacle or it's responses on the page itself (and I would encourage future editors to do the same) as that should be left to this talk page where it belongs. Thank you for bringing this up, closing. --Redstrate (talk) 22:33, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

XDG_DATA_DIRS
The guide doesn't should mention setting the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable as the user gets the following warning:

Note that the directories

'/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share' '/home/$USER/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'

are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so applications installed by Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the session is restarted.