Source: plasma-workspace
Severity: normal
Tags: trixie sid
User: xdg-desktop-por...@packages.debian.org
Usertags: portals.conf
Control: affects -1 plasma-mobile
xdg-desktop-portal 1.17.x (currently in experimental) introduces a new
way to select which portals will be used for which desktop environments,
modelled on mimeapps.list:
- each desktop environment should provide a file like
/usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/kde-portals.conf
- the filename is ${DESKTOP}-portals.conf where ${DESKTOP} is the desktop
environment's entry in $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP (the same as the DesktopNames
from /usr/share/{x,wayland-}sessions/*.desktop), folded to lower case
- sysadmins and users can override this via files named portals.conf or
${DESKTOP}-portals.conf in various locations like /etc/xdg-desktop-portal
and ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal
Please see portals.conf(5) or its source code
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/main/doc/portals-conf.rst
for full details of the search mechanism.
As a backwards-compatibility mechanism, x-d-p will fall back to trying
to guess the most appropriate portals from the portals' UseIn= fields,
but it will log warnings when it does that. Please add a kde-portals.conf
to tell x-d-p more explicitly what backends Plasma is meant to be using
by default, and test with x-d-p from experimental to check that it's
working as expected.
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-session/-/commit/b201c9c40e3adc7bf0b1c3504bef4c8602aac31d
is an example of the equivalent change in GNOME.
In KDE's case, it looks as though plasma-workspace and plasma-mobile share
the DesktopNames=KDE name but plasma-mobile depends on plasma-workspace,
so kde-portals.conf can probably be in plasma-workspace without any
further changes required in plasma-mobile?
I believe the file contents can be as simple as this (untested):
[preferred]
default=kde;
plasma-workspace (and plasma-mobile?) should probably have at least a
Recommends on xdg-desktop-portal-kde for this (see also #1019918).
Thanks,
smcv
--
This is part of a mass bug filing:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/08/msg00311.html
