Flatsonar

Document Viewer

by The GNOME Project

Document viewer for popular document formats

Broad permissions Verified creator GPL-2.0-or-later v48.4
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About

A document viewer for the GNOME desktop. You can view, search or annotate documents in many different formats.

Evince supports documents in: PDF, PS, EPS, XPS, DjVu, TIFF, DVI (with SyncTeX), and Comic Books archives (CBR, CBT, CBZ, CB7).

Permissions

3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • read-only access to your home folder
    --filesystem=home:ro
  • owns desktop name org.gnome.evince: can impersonate a desktop component
    --own-name=org.gnome.evince
  • owns desktop name org.gnome.evince.Daemon: can impersonate a desktop component
    --own-name=org.gnome.evince.Daemon
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • access to /media
    --filesystem=/media:ro
  • access to xdg-run/gvfsd
    --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd
  • access to /run/media
    --filesystem=/run/media:ro
  • session inhibit
    --talk-name=org.gnome.SessionManager
  • 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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