On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:32:40 +0100 Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote: > - each desktop environment should provide a file like > /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/fvwm-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 >
Fvwm really isn't a full desktop environment and is unable to give any recommendation of what desktop portal to use. My understanding is upstream wants desktop environments and window managers to recommend which default portal to use, because its fallback may not work well in all situations. But I don't think fvwm can make any better decision than upstream can on this. If I just follow your advice and blindly set this to prefered=gtk, why can't xdg-destkop-portal just do that for smaller window managers that may not be able to provide any better opinions? In the last few releases, fvwm3 has added the following to its .desktop file. DesktopNames=Fvwm3;Fvwm; So users should be able to configure what desktop portal they want to use in ~/.config/xdg-desktop-port/fvwm3-portals.conf. I just don't want to blindly provide a default configuration at this time, and let users who use xdg-desktop-portal with fvwm3 to configure it themselves (which is the fvwm way). jaimos
