Flatsonar

Dasher

by The Dasher Project

Enter text without a keyboard using zooming predictive input

Dangerous permissions Unverified publisher MIT v0.2.15
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About

Dasher is a zooming, predictive text-entry system for situations where a keyboard is impractical, such as accessibility needs or limited physical input. It is driven by continuous pointing (mouse, touch, gaze, joystick or a single switch), letting you write at high rates with very little physical effort. This is the GTK 4 front-end, built on the shared DasherCore engine.

Permissions

3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • unrestricted access to the session D-Bus (all your running apps)
    --socket=session-bus
  • all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
    --device=all
  • full access to your home folder
    --filesystem=home
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • accessibility
    --talk-name=org.a11y.Bus
  • talks to org.a11y.*
    --talk-name=org.a11y.*

Who publishes this

Nobody has confirmed that the publisher controls this app id. Flatsonar warns before installing.

  • org.alternativeinterface.dasher claims the domain alternativeinterface.org; only its owner can prove that
    publisher:namespace
  • git source tracks a moving branch: what gets built can change without the manifest changing (x2)
    source:unpinned
  • the build has network access: it can download things the manifest does not list
    dasher:build-options:--share=network

Maintenance

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

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