Camera

Permissions

1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

• all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware

  --device=all
• access to your pictures folder

  --filesystem=xdg-pictures
• access to your videos folder

  --filesystem=xdg-videos
• inter-process communication (needed for X11)

  --share=ipc
• X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable

  --socket=fallback-x11
• Wayland display

  --socket=wayland
• audio

  --socket=pulseaudio
• GPU acceleration

  --device=dri
• sets environment variable GST_PLUGIN_PATH_1_0

  --env=GST_PLUGIN_PATH_1_0=/app/lib64/gstreamer-1.0
• metadata X-DConf=migrate-path=/io/elementary/camera/

  --metadata=X-DConf=migrate-path=/io/elementary/camera/

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

• git source tracks a moving branch: what gets built can change without the manifest changing

  source:unpinned
• fetches from 0pointer.de over unencrypted http: anyone on the path can swap the bytes

  source:insecure-url
• the build has network access: it can download things the manifest does not list

  cargo-c:build-options:--share=network
• the build has network access: it can download things the manifest does not list

  gst-plugins-rs:build-options:--share=network
• same name as io.github.cosmic_utils.camera on Flathub but from a different repository

  publisher:lookalike
• same name as org.gnome.Snapshot on Flathub but from a different repository

  publisher:lookalike
• hosted by github.com/elementary, which owns the io.elementary namespace of io.elementary.camera

  publisher:namespace

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.