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ChemCanvas

by Arindam Chaudhuri

Chemical structure drawing tool

Sandboxed Verified creator GPL-3.0-or-later v0.14.8
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About

A very intuitive and easy to use 2D chemical structure drawing tool. You can draw molecules and reactions, mechanisms, generate SMILES, save drawings as PNG or SVG. Or you can calculate various properties of molecules.

Features :

  • Supports most popular file formats
  • Supports modern file formats like Marvin MRV, Chemdraw CDXML
  • Export to PNG, SVG, and Editable SVG
  • Many bond types including wavy bond, Cis/Trans, Bold double, Any Bond etc
  • Aromaticity detection and add delocalization ring
  • Search and load structure from PubChem
  • Reagent bottle label printing tool

Permissions

Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.

  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to xdg-config/kdeglobals
    --filesystem=xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro
  • talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
    --talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
  • talks to org.kde.kconfig.notify
    --talk-name=org.kde.kconfig.notify
  • talks to org.kde.KGlobalSettings
    --talk-name=org.kde.KGlobalSettings

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.

  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

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

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