Add com.rustdesk.RustDesk

[rustdesk]

RustDesk is an open-source remote desktop, and alternative to TeamViewer.

Please confirm your submission meets all the criteria

• Please describe your application briefly.
• I have read the App Requirements and App Maintenance pages.
• My pull request follows the instructions at App Submission.
• I have built and tested the submission locally.
• I am using only the minimal set of permissions. (If not, please explain each non-standard permission.)
• All assets referenced in the manifest are redistributable by any party. If not, the unredistributable parts are using an extra-data source type.
• I am an author/developer/upstream contributor of the project. If not, I contacted upstream developers about submitting their software to Flathub. Link:
• The domain used for the application ID is controlled by the application developers either directly or through the code hosting (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, SourceForge, etc.). The application id guidelines are followed.
• Any additional patches or files have been submitted to the upstream projects concerned. (If not, explain why.)

[bbhtt]

This is not allowed by default. Why is this required?

[rustdesk]

This is remote desktop software, these are required to run it. Please check anydesk https://github.com/flathub/com.anydesk.Anydesk/blob/master/com.anydesk.Anydesk.json

[bbhtt]

I'm going to need more than that. What specifically do you need to run on host that requires escaping the sandbox?

[bbhtt]

Also this is not allowed by default, you are going to need an exception. Otherwise it won't build.

[xlionjuan]

Maybe it is required to make this feature works?
Or if have any other methods that have smaller permission and won't interfere this feature?

rustdesk/rustdesk#7717

[rustdesk]

Please check this, rustdesk/rustdesk#1537 (comment)

[rustdesk]

AnyDesk does not need to use this because it support x11 only, but we support x11 and wayland both, we need this feature.

[rustdesk]

We add these features not for playing, it is because we really need. Hope you can understand.

[rustdesk]

Maybe it is required to make this feature works?
Or if have any other methods that have smaller permission and won't interfere this feature?
rustdesk/rustdesk#7717

Why would a feature related to cursors require executing arbitrary commands on host?

Ignore this.

[bbhtt]

Ok that makes sense. Thanks. However I see fallbacks everywhere in case loginctl does not work. Is that not enough?

Eg here https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/blob/9827c7651442800f47428087903d52da8cb8c2c8/libs/hbb_common/src/platform/linux.rs#L115-L123

[bbhtt]

Why do you need home?

[xlionjuan]

They are Remote Desktop software, transfer files is needed for end users

[rustdesk]

File transfer

[bbhtt]

Does it support filechooser portals? Do you need permanent access to a specific directory?

[rustdesk]

Why does AnyDesk flathub have home? But we can not have

[bbhtt]

This does not answer anything... Each application is separate just because someone else uses it doesn't mean you have to as well.

[rustdesk]

Ok, I give up. Thanks for your time.

[rustdesk]

This does not answer anything... Each application is separate just because someone else uses it doesn't mean you have to as well.

I do not think so, you answer nothing either.

[rustdesk]

It is ridiculous that the previous reviewer agreed with the home permission of remote desktop software, now a new reviewer does not agree with it. Though all of you are volunteers or students, you should do things like this way.

[hfiguiere]

what's ridiculous is that

1. you think you know better
2. it's not about what the app does but how it is written
3. until recently filesystem permissions were not gated so they could have been changed
4. talking about double standard, you are making one right now by thinking you know better while not even being able to justify the choices made when asked.

Locking this thread now since the PR is closed.

[hfiguiere]

You have not:

Please describe your application briefly.

[rustdesk]

@xlionjuan do you have interest to take over the job of merging RustDesk to flathub? I can add you as maintainer of rustdesk/flathub repo.

[xlionjuan]

@xlionjuan do you have interest to take over the job of merging RustDesk to flathub? I can add you as maintainer of rustdesk/flathub repo.

@rustdesk Thanks for your recognition, but sorry, I might not be able to maintain it because I'm not familiar with this either.

[bbhtt]

I don't see the metainfo info being installed. You removed it from here, but it is not present in the .deb

[rustdesk]

How do you know not installed? I did see installed from log of flatpak-build.

[bbhtt]

How can it be installed when it is not in the deb and nowhere in the manifest as a source?

[rustdesk]

[rustdesk]

It is closed, you do not need to review any more. #5233 (comment)

[hfiguiere]

Since you seem to know better, neither of the line above show the appstream file. So yeah the appstream file isn't installed.

[rustdesk]

Since we can not reach consensus with reviewers about the permissions, we decide to give up uploading RustDesk to FlatHub. Please use Flatpak from our github release downloads. Thanks for your understanding.

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/releases/latest