Flatsonar

Builder

by Christian Hergert

Create applications for GNOME

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0+ and GPL-2.0+ and LGPL-3.0+ and LGPL-2.0+ and MIT v50.0
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About

Builder is an actively developed Integrated Development Environment for GNOME. It combines integrated support for essential GNOME technologies such as GTK+, GLib, and GNOME APIs with features that any developer will appreciate, like syntax highlighting and snippets.

You can rely on predictable releases of Builder with each new release of GNOME every six months.

Features:

  • Built in syntax highlighting for many languages
  • Side-by-side code editors
  • Multi-monitor support
  • Code overview mini-map
  • Integration with Git
  • Integration with Autotools, Cargo, CMake, Gradle, Meson, Maven, Make, PHPize, and Waf
  • Clang based auto-completion, semantic highlighting, and diagnostics
  • Python based auto-completion, semantic highlighting, and diagnostics
  • Vala based auto-completion and diagnostics
  • Auto indentation support for C, Python, Vala, and XML
  • HTML, Markdown, and reStructuredText, and Sphinx live preview
  • Optional Vim, Emacs, and SublimeText style editing
  • An integrated software profiler for native applications
  • An integrated debugger for native applications
  • Support for building with jhbuild and flatpak runtimes
  • Support for viewing TODOs found within your code base
  • Fast fuzzy text search across files and symbols
  • Arduino integration with arduino-cli

Permissions

11 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • unrestricted access to the session D-Bus (all your running apps)
    --socket=session-bus
  • unrestricted access to the system D-Bus (system services, hardware)
    --socket=system-bus
  • full access to your entire file system
    --filesystem=host
  • sandbox escape: can run commands on the host via flatpak-spawn
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak
  • your SSH agent (can sign with your SSH keys)
    --socket=ssh-auth
  • development features (ptrace, can inspect other processes in its sandbox)
    --allow=devel
  • package management
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.PackageKit
  • your keyring / saved passwords
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.secrets
  • talks to system service org.gnome.Sysprof3
    --system-talk-name=org.gnome.Sysprof3
  • talks to system service org.freedesktop.Avahi
    --system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.Avahi
  • authorisation (polkit)
    --system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1
  • 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 /var/tmp
    --filesystem=/var/tmp
  • access to /var/lib/flatpak
    --filesystem=/var/lib/flatpak
  • access to xdg-run/gvfsd
    --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd
  • access to xdg-run/keyring
    --filesystem=xdg-run/keyring
  • access to ~/.local/share/flatpak
    --filesystem=~/.local/share/flatpak
  • talks to org.gtk.vfs.*
    --talk-name=org.gtk.vfs.*
  • talks to org.freedesktop.FileManager1
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.FileManager1

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

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