Bug 1012272 - Cannot open Flatpak Bundles with Gnome-Software
Summary: Cannot open Flatpak Bundles with Gnome-Software
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification: openSUSE
Component: GNOME (show other bugs)
Version: Current
Hardware: x86-64 Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Depends on: 1008287
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Reported: 2016-11-26 18:32 UTC by Antoine Saroufim
Modified: 2020-05-20 15:56 UTC (History)
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Description Antoine Saroufim 2016-11-26 18:32:30 UTC 
Opening .flatpak bundles via gnome-software does absolutely nothing. Gnome-software doesn't even launch or start. Flatpak bundles are also not automatically detected as a type of file that can be opened with gnome-software. 

Currently using GNOME 3.22.2 on Tumbleweed (fully updated to the latest snapshot)
Comment 1 Dominique Leuenberger 2016-11-27 10:23:59 UTC 
That's pretty much the same as bug 941862

EVen though that bug is about RPM files, the main component missing is the .desktop file (which we don't ship due to it not working with our PK backend for now) - The handler might already work for flatpak; but last time I tried it, stupidly enough PK was still being queried - needless to say it failed.

Might be worthy to re-check and possibly install the handler only for .flatpak and .flatrepo files (skip RPM until the underlying PK issue is fixed)
Comment 2 Bo Simonsen 2018-06-23 10:25:45 UTC 
LEAP 15 is suffering from the bug as well. The extension "flatpakref" is not recognized to be opened with gnome-software. If you do a "zypper install flatpak" and run "gnome-software --local-filename=someflatpakreffile.flatpakref" it installs perfectly. Would really improve usability of LEAP if flatpak was supported via gnome-software.
Comment 3 Dominique Leuenberger 2020-05-20 15:56:36 UTC 
At least on Tumbleweed this seems to work now:

I tried:
* https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.frozen_bubble.frozen-bubble
* Click install
* The 'open dialog' pops up, populated with 'install software'
* After confirming, gnome-software launches, allowing to install