Package: cutefish-core
Severity: normal
Tags: trixie sid
User: xdg-desktop-por...@packages.debian.org
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/cutefish-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.
If I'm reading its code correctly, I think Cutefish intends to set
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to "Cutefish"? (But if I'm wrong, please adjust my
suggestions accordingly.)
As a backwards-compatibility mechanism, x-d-p will fall back to trying to
guess the most appropriate portals from the portals' deprecated UseIn=
fields, but it will log warnings when it does that, and anyway Debian
doesn't currently ship any portal backends that are flagged as suitable
for Cutefish. Please add a cutefish-portals.conf to tell x-d-p
more explicitly what backends Cutefish is meant to be using by default.
At the moment x-d-p is hard-coded to fall back to the x-d-p-gtk backend
if nothing more suitable is found, but that's a short-term hack which
we should remove before trixie.
For example, if the intention is that Cutefish should be using the
x-d-p-gtk backend, the way to write that would be:
[preferred]
default=gtk;
The desktop environment (either cutefish-core or some larger
metapackage) should probably also have a Recommends, or at least a
Suggests, on whatever portals would be most appropriate for it.
Thanks,
smcv
--
This is part of a mass bug filing:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/08/msg00311.html
