Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : xdg-desktop-portal-gnome Version : 41.0 Upstream Author : Georges Basile Stavracas Neto, Matthias Clasen et al * URL : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : GNOME portal backend for xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gnome provides a GNOME implementation for the desktop-agnostic xdg-desktop-portal service. This allows sandboxed applications to request services from outside the sandbox using GNOME services such as the session manager and Shell. --- This is fully GNOME-specific, like a GNOME equivalent of xdg-desktop-portal-kde (and unlike the x-d-p-gtk backend available in Debian 11, which is somewhat desktop-neutral and has been treated as part of the Flatpak family of packages). It will be maintained in the GNOME team. The code in this package used to be part of xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, but that backend was a mixture of general GTK things (which can work equally well on other GTK desktops like XFCE or MATE, and are broadly suitable as an implementation of last resort on any system that happens to have GTK installed) and GNOME-specific things (most of which genuinely do need core GNOME components). Those two classes of interface had conflicting requirements, which can be resolved by separating them. The GNOME-specific parts of xdg-desktop-portal-gtk are still available for now as a transitional stage, but they will be disabled after this package has got through NEW, and are likely to be deleted upstream in the relatively near future. This package is likely to depend on the x-d-p-gtk backend, which will continue to provide its non-GNOME-specific interfaces. xdg-desktop-portal can take individual interfaces from different backends, with the one for the $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP "winning" and others being used as fallbacks. Other GTK desktops (MATE, Cinnamon, XFCE, etc.) should either use the -gtk backend if it is sufficient for their requirements, or implement their own portal backend similar to this one to provide things that x-d-p-gtk can't do in a desktop-agnostic way, such as screen sharing and wallpaper-setting. smcv
