Created attachment 178650 [details] photo of the dolphin flatpak (lower right) searching for the wallpapers folder next to the rpm (upper right) and the terminal searching for the same folder SUMMARY when attempting to accesses folders in usr/share/ some folders do not appear such as: wallpapers, vulkansc, xwayland and a few more. the folders are accessible through the terminal with the cd command and using the non flatpak version (fedora rpm) as well as the rpm of gnome files do not present the bug, so the files still exist on the system but do not show up. in addition, if you try to right click on a file and choose "open containing folder" such as through the setting wallpaper section it silently fails if you only got the flatpak installed STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. open dolphin 2. navigate to /usr/share 3. attempt to search for one of the aforementioned folders OBSERVED RESULT no folder detected even tho the folder can be accessed through the terminal. EXPECTED RESULT the folder shows up. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 41 KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2 Kernel Version: 6.12.15-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Processors: 16 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13620H Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 Manufacturer: LENOVO Product Name: 82XW System Version: LOQ 16IRH8
This is unfortunately a limitation of Dolphin when packaged using a Flatpak. It's currently unsolvable without one of the following changes: 1. Making Flatpak'ed Dolphin communicate with a host-side daemon that has to be installed. 2. Changing Flatpak itself to allow full host access for apps like Dolphin that need it. This is implemented with https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/pull/6125, assuming that ever gets merged. The problem with #1 is that is removes the "run anywhere" advantage of Flatpak, since the system would need to have the host-side daemon running and that would have to be provided by system packaging. The problem with #2 is that it's politically challenging and may not end up happening. Either way, there's nothing feasible we can do right now, sorry. We'll need to see if #2 is accepted; if not, we'll see if we can stomach #1 or just give up on the idea of file managers in Flatpak.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > This is unfortunately a limitation of Dolphin when packaged using a Flatpak. I see. Thank you for the explanation and I apologise for the unnecessary bug report. It's a bit of a shame bc I much rather use an official flatpak when Available but it can't be helped this time (tho it's weird bc I use konsole as flatpak too and as I've mentioned you can cd into the folders. If I may offer it might be worth it to add this info to the flathub description so users won't post about it. Tho I get it if you'd rather not to.