rohanlean

Hey, and thanks for looking into this. Apologies if I have made some wrong assumptions. In more detail my problem was as follows: I am using the flatpak version of...

> I did not even know that sfizz had a flatpak version. Did you get this and Ardour from Flathub? Yes. `org.ardour.Ardour` and `org.freedesktop.LinuxAudio.Plugins.sfizz`, runtime version `21.08`. I have also...

> Ideally the portal should ask for a file with a provision for all other files and subdirectories That would not even suffice though, because the sfz files can (and...

> can you really bypass the portal? Well, the flatpak has its own view of the file system that can overlap with the host filesystem. If you run a "plain"...

> By the way, if you use the LV2 plugin and Ardour's generic GUI (which includes a file chooser with the LV2 plugin but not VST3), what happens in this...

The best solution for the flatpak case would perhaps be to let the user choose both a folder -- with a portal -- and an sfz file from that folder...

> Detecting that we're running within the jail and informing the user of the proper steps he should take to ensure good behavior would be better in my eyes. Hmm,...

> Maybe the most user-friendly way when a jail is detected is then is to warn the user on opening that we're going to need a particular process (i.e. select...

> Let's see, I think this is a minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things. Agreed. > We could even cheat and ask the user for a file, but...