elementary
Missing in Switchboard/Applications
What Happened?
Cannot change permissions it seems. I guess thats on Mail side ?
Steps to Reproduce
go in Applications, no mail
Expected Behavior
Access permissions of Mail
OS Version
8.x (Early Access)
Session Type
Secure Session (Wayland)
Software Version
Latest release (I have run all updates)
Log Output
No response
Hardware Info
No response
I think this is because Mail is provided through Debian Packaging at the moment, not Flatpak.
Why ?
From an end user point of view that doesnt change anything to the issue
The reason why there are only Flatpak apps in Permissions pane is that, there is no concept of "permission" in the apps provided through Debian Packaging. These apps can do anything like accessing the whole filesystem, running in background, spawning arbitrary command, etc. without letting users know they do that, which means users can "permit" nothing. One of aims Flatpak is to resolve this problem, by running each apps in a separated (sandboxed) environment and allowing access to resources only when necessary. This is why only Flatpak apps can change permission in System Setitngs.
I'm not sure why Mail has not been provided in Flatpak yet, but maybe because there are still some problems like #784.
Yeah the big problem with mail, calendar, tasks is access to online accounts/eds/keyring in the sandbox
