On Sun, 3 Sep 2023 21:55:33 +0100 Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote: > When we stop patching xdg-desktop-portal to hard-code its GTK backend > as a fallback, the default will be to use no portal backends at all, > which means the apps I described above will try and fail to make use > of those desktop features, unless the user has written a > portals.conf(5) of their own (which they can always do anyway, and it > will overrule the desktop environment's choices).
A few months after you wrote the the comment above, you successfully submitted a version of Debian's GTK-portal-as-last-resort mechanism to Flatpak as a more permanent feature. https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1199 In light of this, should this and similar bugs be closed? Lightweight window managers that do not depend on or recommend any specific UI toolkit or D-Bus services have no way of knowing what their users will prefer to use as they are not providing it themselves, so the approach you took in Flatpak seems preferable to the one recommended here. Regards, Timothy Gaskell
