GNOME Software for Flatpaks

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Hello,

I generally use yay from command line for most software, but there are few flatpaks I prefer and I would like to have a UI and use GNOME software for that. I just installed and it, and it pulled the following:

Package (2)                   New Version  Net Change  Download Size

community/libpackagekit-glib  1.2.6-1        1.89 MiB       0.22 MiB
extra/gnome-software          43.5-1        10.24 MiB       1.82 MiB

Now, when running GNOME software the “Software repositories” section only has dl.flathub.org enabled (there are no other repos available) and I can find software in the “Explore” tab as expected.

However, when I go to the “Installed” tab, I see a lot of software that is not installed via flatpak. For example: VLC, Gnome Software itself (just installed), BTRFS assistant…

All this software was installed via yay from pacman repos… Why does it show up there (not everything is listed, just 20-30 or so applications). How can I restrict GNOME software to just flatpak? I want the “installed” section to basically show what flatpak list would show…

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Because the designers did so. It shows any applications that exist on upstream flathub repos and are installed (no matter how).

AFAIK you cannot, unless there is a setting in packagekit.

As in previous answer.

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