zoom-redirector VS Flatseal

This is a redirector extension to make it easier to join using the web client https://github.com/arkadiyt/zoom-redirector

Check out https://github.com/arkadiyt/zoom-redirector. You can also join meetings from https://pwa.zoom.us/wc/.

For video conference, my work use Zoom, and I just use zoom-redirector since Firefox's share-screen handling is better than the official apps or the snap/flatpak's handling for wayland at the moment. That said, I do keep Brave and Edge for a Chromium option when I have to deal with one vendor's Sharepoint and whatever other jank setups the vendors have for CRM and stuff.

But I use a browser extension: zoom redirector. This directly opens the zoom meeting when clicking a zoom link. Without this zoom tries multiple times to force the download of their client before even showing the link to the browser based meeting.

And not only that, the idea of portals is, IMO, misguided. See this view/bugreport when a flatseal user understands that even though they restricted permissions to access a certain area, the flatpak, itself, can ask to open files there and if OK'd that will be allowed. Their expectation is that with the overrides say "no access" it means "no access even if the flatpak asks very nicely". https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal/issues/196

Since you installed the programme via Flatpak, you should simply lack the necessary rights (https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html). You can extend the rights quite easily with https://github.com/tchx84/flatseal.

Yes, filed https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal/issues/196 a while ago, got no joy.

One design feature than can turn into an issue in some scenarios (usually dev tools) is the permissions of a flatpak. In case I need to tweak things, I use Flatseal. I know you can manually do this from the command line but I don’t change permissions that often so I don’t bother learning how to do that.

Does the Flatpak Permissions Settings replace a tool like Flatseal?

What about flatseal then ? https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal

https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal (Also on Discover. For security reasons, the Discover store installs apps as sandboxed "flatpak" apps. This one is used to view what each up can do and change the permissions of apps. May be required if the sandboxing breaks something, though usually not required.)

I believe it does. As an example if I try running Godot from the Steam flatpak, it won't be able to see any of the contents of my ~/Projects folder unless I explicitly allow the steam flatpak access to that directory that via flatpak's CLI options or using Flatseal