Chrome & Chromium unable to install APPS

[boustanihani]

I am using Gnome 45.2 on NixOS 23.11.

When installing Chrome & Chromium from flathub, I am unable to install websites as apps and getting them to integrate into the users menu. I get the following error:

However, Microsoft Egde (which is Chrome based) is able to install apps and integrate them to in the menu without any problems!

[razzeee]

I've set this in Microsoft Edge to install PWAs, but might not be needed anymore there. So this is probably what these are missing.

From flatseal

[boustanihani]

Thanks, this solved the problem :)

Those rights should be added by default to the Flatpak versions Chrome & Chromium...

[quesada]

I have tried adding those paths on flatseal, but the message persists:

[quesada]

Argh, sorry, I see the error. Missing dot on .local. Never mind :)

[razzeee]

You are missing a dot in one path

[quesada]

Thanks, I fixed that, still doesn't work. Trind adding :create at the end (this is what edge does), still no dice:

[boustanihani]

Did you try restarting your PC?

[starquake]

When I added ~/.local/share/applications and ~/.local/share/icons it still didn't work. After I added ~/.local/share/applications:create and ~/.local/share/icons:create it started working!

[rotilho]

Is this something that can be added to the default permissions?

[kees-closed]

Odd. It doesn't work when using the XDG variables (see below), only when specifying the real path (see comment). Maybe that's causing issues as well?

flatpak override --user com.google.Chrome --filesystem=xdg-data/applications:create --filesystem=xdg-data/icons:create --verbose

Which does work fine for other Flatpaks, such as Element:

flatpak override im.riot.Riot --filesystem=xdg-pictures:ro --filesystem=xdg-documents:ro --user --verbose