This is great. Having access to all apps is nice, but it is also useful to know how and if flatpak apps are verified.

This mostly means they are packaged by official developers. This guarantees better security, as the chain of trust is shorter, and better support.

  • @TheGrandNagusEnglish
    15•2 months ago

    I assumed this was already the case but regardless this is a great change!

    I hope more developers get their apps verified. It boggles my mind that the Steam flatpak isn’t verified, for example (even more bizarre is that Valve encourage people to use the Steam flatpak despite it being unofficial!)

    Hopefully the Flathub website, Gnome, Cinnamon, and now Plasma showing verified app status will be the kick up the arse devs need.

    • boredsquirrelOP
      6•2 months ago

      Well SteamOS doesnt use the Steam Flatpak. Otherwise that would be kinda fun.

      They also do their own versioning of Arch packages

      • @TheGrandNagusEnglish
        3•1 month ago

        Yeah I get that SteamOS wouldn’t, but Valve themselves have explicitly stated people should use Flatpaks, not distro repos or Snaps (perhaps with an exception for Arch repos if what you say is correct).

        Seems very weird to me.