Integration work needed for >=xdg-desktop-portal-1.18.0

Integration work needed for >=xdg-desktop-portal-1.18.0

[Sam James]

Hi all,

xdg-desktop-portal-1.18.0 changes its behaviour if no portals are
configured by the user, installed portals, or desktop environments.

Simon has a good summary at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1050911#35
for what one needs to do.

I've filed a Gentoo tracker bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org/915704
with a list of things I'm aware of that need handling, but I'll
include a list here of some useful references:
* https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/1017
* https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/1077
* https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/1102

Thanks to abby from Void and to psykose as well for the heads up.

best,
sam

Re: Integration work needed for >=xdg-desktop-portal-1.18.0

[classabbyamp]

On 2023-10-13 22 h 55, Sam James wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> xdg-desktop-portal-1.18.0 changes its behaviour if no portals are
> configured by the user, installed portals, or desktop environments.
> 
> Simon has a good summary at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1050911#35
> for what one needs to do.
> 
> I've filed a Gentoo tracker bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org/915704
> with a list of things I'm aware of that need handling, but I'll
> include a list here of some useful references:
> * https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/1017
> * https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/1077
> * https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/1102
> 
> Thanks to abby from Void and to psykose as well for the heads up.
> 
> best,
> sam
> 

On Void we're shipping a default portals.conf to ensure all users have 
at least some working portal, regardless of WM or DE (assuming they 
installed one of the backends):

     [preferred]
     default=*

in the lowest-precedence location, /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal.

More of the rationale behind this is available in the commit:
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/commit/b4c404aac0af3ced08671a8840cd261198689cef

-- 
classabbyamp

Re: Integration work needed for >=xdg-desktop-portal-1.18.0

[classabbyamp]

On October 13, 2023 10:55:21 p.m. EDT, Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>xdg-desktop-portal-1.18.0 changes its behaviour if no portals are
>configured by the user, installed portals, or desktop environments.
>
>Simon has a good summary at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1050911#35
>for what one needs to do.
>
>I've filed a Gentoo tracker bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org/915704
>with a list of things I'm aware of that need handling, but I'll
>include a list here of some useful references:
>* https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/1017
>* https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/1077
>* https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/1102
>
>Thanks to abby from Void and to psykose as well for the heads up.
>
>best,
>sam
>


On Void we're shipping a default portals.conf to ensure all users have at least some working portal, regardless of WM or DE (assuming they installed one of the backends):

    [preferred]
    default=*

in the lowest-precedence location, /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal.

More of the rationale behind this is available in the commit:
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/commit/b4c404aac0af3ced08671a8840cd261198689cef