product.json should be editable

[hoshsadiq]

hi, I'm not sure if flatpak supports making changes to files directly and surviving upgrades, but /app/share/codium/resources/app/product.json should be editable. Currently this is not possible in an easy manner as far as I know. It requires somehow moving the json file outside the container, edit it, put it back into the container and move it to the correct place, and even then, I'm presuming the file wouldn't survive an upgrade. It would be great to have an easier alternative.

[hoshsadiq]

Scratch that, it's not possible at all as the filesystem is read-only.

[noonsleeper]

hi @hoshsadiq I was try many things to resolve this problem but none of them are "elegant, nice or simple". I think the best is try to push something like flathub/com.visualstudio.code-oss@f4fb6f3 on https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium directly but this may be takes some time, if you need this option now the alternative is use https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code-oss or build an extension to override the file

[hoshsadiq]

Thanks. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, isn't vscodium the same as code-oss? I thought code-oss was a previous name of.

Anyway, I'll be happy to raise this on the vscodium repo.

As an alternative, can product.js not be a link to a user editable file? Something along the lines of ~/.var/app/com.vscodium.codium/config/VSCodium/product.json. I guess it would cause issues with upgrading and/or if a user decides to remove all their user data.

[noonsleeper]

As an alternative, can product.js not be a link to a user editable file? Something along the lines of ~/.var/app/com.vscodium.codium/config/VSCodium/product.json. I guess it would cause issues with upgrading and/or if a user decides to remove all their user data.

I think that the approach of flathub/com.visualstudio.code-oss@f4fb6f3 for example this allow to point to a json file with the modify vars in this example the extension gallery

[noonsleeper]

hey @hoshsadiq check this issue VSCodium/vscodium#519

[rugk]

I think that the approach of flathub/com.visualstudio.code-oss@f4fb6f3 for example this allow to point to a json file with the modify vars in this example the extension gallery

Yes, could not you just reuse this patch here?
It's quite convenient and I've described here how to use it.

[rugk]

Upstream now has a solution: VSCodium/vscodium#674

[noonsleeper]

Upstream now has a solution: VSCodium/vscodium#674

Yeah, I'm waiting the next release =)

[rugk]

The current TL;DR for everyone who is looking for a solution is doing just this:

$ flatpak --user override --env=VSCODE_GALLERY_SERVICE_URL=https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery com.vscodium.codium
$ flatpak --user override --env=VSCODE_GALLERY_ITEM_URL=https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items com.vscodium.codium

(without --user you can apply this system-wide)

In order to show/debug/start the current parameters/environment variables use this:

$ flatpak override --show com.vscodium.codium
[Environment]
VSCODE_GALLERY_ITEM_URL=https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items
VSCODE_GALLERY_SERVICE_URL=https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery
$ flatpak run com.vscodium.codium

[hoshsadiq]

Nice! Forgot about this issue. It's a welcome change. Thanks to everyone who contributed :)