Re: [Evolution] help understanding a section of evolution log

[Dan Kortschak <dan kortschak io>]

On Mon, 2022-05-16 at 12:17 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> You can open the terminal in the sandbox with:
>
>    $ flatpak run --command=sh org.gnome.Evolution
>
> which should give you the same file system layout as the Evolution
> itself sees.

That's interesting. It shows me that I'm in ~/, but clearly it's faking
it since nothing is there and writes to the fs don't appear elsewhere,
and the inode numbers of files I write there are too low (~100) to be
natural.

> > So does this mean that it is not possible to print from the flatpak
> > evolution?
>
> I do not know. Flatpak has its limitations, some are for good. Maybe
> if
> you expose a whole home to the sandbox (which means you'll lose the
> safety), then the WebKitGTK will offer real home directory and you
> get
> to the files. I do not know the exact flatpak command, try to search
> for "flatpak override home access" or some such term. Once you'll set
> the override make sure you restart the application, thus it starts
> with
> the new privileges.

Thanks for that, I'll take a look. ISTM that this is a fairly important
thing to be able to do though. It's worth noting that saving
attachments and mbox files works fine.

thanks
Dan