IanTwenty

This reminds me of RSS, designed for reading and pared back to the minimum required to deliver the message and nothing more.

Deedum has fallen behind and doesn’t support recent android it seems. Same for the only other client in fdroid, Pocket Gopher.

Gopher guarantees readers that there will never be anything other than text and media served on a site. They don’t have to trust the publisher, the protocol enforces it.

I see this with flatpaks, the solution might be to grant permission to the app to the part of the filesystem your dragging from with flatseal/cmdline.

HOWEVER I do think the desktop is missing a pop-up which offers to do this for you when it happens. This is how android does it when an app needs access outside its own files, you just get a prompt to allow it.

This is the sandbox future - it’s safer and you can trust that apps can’t go snooping around your system but users shouldn’t need to fiddle with perms all the time to get stuff done.