Hi, I'm trying to find a way to make installation of flatpak applications as simple as possible. LibreOffice for Flatpak has been out for a couple of months and the feedback is that the installation process is too complex. It has improved with GNOME Software 3.22 supporting flatpak bundle installation. But you still have to manually add a remote with required runtime and install that runtime if it's not already installed. One solution would be giving apps an option to add a remote and install the required runtime from it, but Alex sees that as a potential security issue. Another solution would be shipping Fedora Workstation with trusted remotes with flatpak runtimes enabled. It's not a long list right now, pretty much just: FreeDesktop.org, GNOME, and KDE. Vast majority of existing flatpak apps are using runtimes provided by these. If those remotes were enabled in Workstation by default, then installing a flatpak bundle such as LibreOffice would be just a matter of double- clicking the file and approving the operation because Software/Flatpak could figure out the rest including installation of a runtime from one of the trusted remotes. If the required runtime were not in one of the trusted remotes, the user would be told that the runtime was not found in trusted remotes and he'd have to install it manually before installing the app. But that's not the case for many apps now. It's basically enabling 3rd party software sources which requires an approval of the Workstation Working Group if I understand it correctly. So I'd like to propose this for discussion in the working group. Jiri
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