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Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault. (lemmy.world)
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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 49 points 4 months ago

Flatpak is nice but I really would like to see a way to run flatpakked application transparently e.g. don't have to

    flatpak run org.gnome.Lollypop

and can just run the app via

    Lollypop
[-] grue@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago

You could make aliases for each program, but I agree, there should be a way to set it up so they resolve automatically.

[-] mutter9355@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

You could possibly also make a shell script that does this automatically. I believe most flatpak ids follow a pattern such as com.github.user.package, for github projects for example. So you could loop through all installed flatpaks, extract the name, and then add the alias.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Agreed, but I also feel like such a thing should be included with Flatpak by default instead of leaving it to the users to solve.

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