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We've had the feature for a long time that allows you to use a substring instead of a full app ID in the install and uninstall commands. The only reason I didn't add it to the run command back then was that I wasn't sure it was ok to add interactive prompts to flatpak-run (it is often invoked by other programs rather than users directly). But in fact we already have a prompt in case there's ambiguity about which branch to use; this commit just repurposes that to also address ambiguity about which ref to use. Long story short, this allows you to do "flatpak run firefox" instead of "flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox". As discussed in #4848, we let the user avoid needing to respond to a prompt every time by letting them save the alias (trust-on-first-use). The aliases can be added, removed, or viewed with the separate alias command. Helps: #1258
Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux.
See https://flatpak.org/ for more information.
Community discussion happens in #flatpak:matrix.org, on the mailing list, and on the Flathub Discourse.
Read documentation for Flatpak here.
Contributing
Flatpak welcomes contributions from anyone! Here are some ways you can help:
- Fix one of the issues and submit a PR
- Update flatpak's translations and submit a PR
- Improve flatpak's documentation, hosted at http://docs.flatpak.org and developed over in flatpak-docs
- Find a bug and submit a detailed report including your OS, flatpak version, and the steps to reproduce
- Add your favorite application to Flathub by writing a flatpak-builder manifest and submitting it
- Improve the Flatpak support in your favorite Linux distribution
Hacking
See CONTRIBUTING.md
Related Projects
Here are some notable projects in the Flatpak ecosystem:
- Flatseal: An app for managing permissions of Flatpak apps without using the CLI
- Flat-manager: A tool for managing Flatpak repositories