Package: budgie-core
Severity: normal
Tags: trixie sid
User: [email protected]
Usertags: portals.conf
xdg-desktop-portal 1.17.x 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/budgie-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.
Because budgie-desktop declares itself as being GNOME-based with
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Budgie:GNOME, it has two options:
1. Delegate its choice of portals to GNOME by accepting whatever GNOME
does in gnome-portals.conf, and don't install a budgie-portals.conf
2. Take control over its own choice of portals by providing a
/usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/budgie-portals.conf
If the first option is what the Budgie maintainers want, then this bug
can be closed without further action.
>From what I've seen elsewhere, in the short term Budgie probably wants to
use a mixture of -gtk and -gnome? But in the GNOME 45 cycle, it seems to be
switching away from mutter 44/45 to a fork of mutter 43, which might no
longer have the APIs that x-d-p-gnome requires? So the second option is
probably more appropriate. GNOME's gnome-portals.conf was added in
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-session/-/commit/b201c9c40e3adc7bf0b1c3504bef4c8602aac31d
and might make a good basis for designing a budgie-portals.conf: it
illustrates how a different fallback order can be selected for each portal
interface.
Thanks,
smcv
--
This is part of a mass bug filing:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/08/msg00311.html
