El Flatseal creator Martin Abente Lahaye announced today that Flatseal 1.8 is the latest stable version of this open source application for managing permissions in GNU/Linux distributions. Users can now review and modify global overrides with Flatseal 1.8. Global overrides are now handled precisely. Flaseeal now displays all permission changes from all sources, including global overrides, when viewing an app's permissions.
Also, Flatseal now show all permissions that the user or globally changed. When someone looks at an app's permissions, these global overrides need to be considered and displayed. Now all permissions that have been modified are taken into account. "With this version, what you see is precisely what an application can or cannot do," says Martín Abente Lahaye in a blog post.
Flatseal 1.8 includes several improvements, such as the ability to create "overrides" directories for those who want to install Flatseal as a Flatpak application instead of a distro repository application, support for new system-level color schemes in the GNOME desktop, documentation, and login windows simplified direct, and simplified modal interfaces. In addition to removing file system permissions, Flatseal 1.8 adds support for the Bulgarian, Chinese (China), and Danish languages, fixes minor issues, and warns Flatpak users about including the mode as part of the override.
The flatpack users You can download Flatseal 1.8 right now from Flathub as a Flatpak app to manage (grant or remove) Flatpak app permissions. Future versions of Flatseal will finally introduce a GTK4 port and libadwaita, as well as revised backend models to remove some more limitations associated with the application. Additionally, a more polished global override UI will be added.
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