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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
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Agree. But support by distros would make them acceptable. Only if they tick the basic security requirements of a repo, actual maintenance and download verification, this should be done.
Icons on Wayland are not possible, because of security. Apps could spawn a window that looks like Chromium and ask for a password, for example.
Do they need desktop entries, DEs should absolutely not create them for those apps.
Yes I think I touched the library issue a bit, but this is really bad. There is no updating system that could tell you what apps are affected too.