Hello,
I have installed Kinoite 43 yesterday and everything is running as it should. I just have a question about the installed flatpaks. I installed them with the option --user. Now I see, what I think are the apps themselves in: ~/.local/share/flatpak/app/ and then each in its own subfolder.
Flatpak data is, just as it is when not installed as user, in: ~/.var/app/ and again each in its own subfolder.
In the app folder do I have everything the app needs, or is there something stored in an other (system) folder as well? In other words, if I reinstall Kinoite, which I hope I never have to do but experiences tell me differently, and I keep my home folder in tact (manual partitioning), will the apps work in the new install, or will there be something missing and I need to re-install them?
Thanks.
If you’re installing things with --user via flatpak, everything is self-contained in your $HOME/{.local/share/flatpak,.var/app} and mostly portable to a new installation. The only problem you might run into, is if you’re switching to something else that might be shipping a different version of flatpak itself on the system.
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I was just thinking, what about the entries in the KDE menu, how will they get there after a re-install of the OS? The flatpaks will not be installed anymore, cause there are installed versions already. What will take care of that, or is that a manual job for the user?
Flatpak should pick that up, based on the .desktop files installed in $HOME/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/applications
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Great, thank you.