Local connection set up by default

[frandavid100]

I'd like Pods to work a bit more like Fragments; meaning, the local connection is set up and shown by default, without the user having to do anything, and then there's a menu item that lets you add a remote connection.

Would that be possible?

[marhkb]

Thanks for the suggestion. This would be a rather low priority on my TODO list, but I welcome patches.
Pods needs to check if the socket is available on the host and could connect immediately. On some systems, such as mobile devices, this is not the case and the user has to add connections manually.

[JaneSmith]

Does it have to use a socket? I'm a newbie and don't really understand the setup for Pods at all. With no local connection set up by default, the onboarding process is confusing for me. Ideally, I'd like to just use the podman-host wrapper from Distrobox that I already use with the VS Code Flatpak. Is this not possible?

[marhkb]

Does it have to use a socket? I'm a newbie and don't really understand the setup for Pods at all. With no local connection set up by default, the onboarding process is confusing for me. Ideally, I'd like to just use the podman-host wrapper from Distrobox that I already use with the VS Code Flatpak. Is this not possible?

This is not possible. Because pods uses the podman RESTful API it has to transfer over HTTP – either through a UNIX socket or a TCP connection.