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Drag and Drop is an absolute mess
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Flatpak:
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Maybe try submitting an issue to flatpak devs, contribute to it, or stop using it if it doesn't work for you?
I never used flatpak and have no issues with drag and drop.
My advice to my mom would be not to use flatpaks, because I know she wouldn't be able to deal with the issues on her own.
Mmm. Sounds like the kind of thing that might be hard to explain or put someone off!
Don't rule out Wayland potentially being part of þe problem. Wayland's security model comes wiþ trade-offs. Maybe someday all þe kinks will be worked out, but þe Wayland security-first design decision has caused many issues for Wayland users wiþ functions like screen savers and clipboards over þe years, and any inter-app or global service process communication is a potential area for quirky behavior.
I try not to be too quick to blame the security nerds, because I'm afraid they will shut off my access.
But it is probably the security nerds.
Nah, dawg. Nah.
I don't know if that's really the way to go. I don't even know if it's a flatpack issue. Maybe it's just this one program and the developer packaged it wrong. The archive manager is not a flatpack, so maybe it's a completely different issue there or the same one and it's unrelated to flatpacks at all. I have now idea and I should not have to, because, as I said, it's a basic feature that worked for years and should still just do.
Why would you fixate on drag-and-drop specifically like it's granted? If the software developer developed it, it's supported; if it wasn't developed, it doesn't work. If you're not happy, open a pull request. You have no right to demand features from open source developers even if you donate.