On 19 April 2017 at 13:08, Jan Grulich <jgrul...@redhat.com> wrote: > I would like to request/discuss inclusion of xdg-desktop-portal-kde [1] into > Plasma to have it released with Plasma 5.10 and so on. > > What is xdg-desktop-portal-kde: > It's a KDE implementation of Flatpak portals backend [2], currently with > support of AppChooser, FileChooser, Notification and Print portals. > > How it works: > An app running in sandbox communicates with outside world using > org.freedesktop.portal.Foo interfaces (each of them is one portal). These > interfaces are registered by xdg-desktop-portal (on DBus as > org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop service). This requires support in library to > make widgets etc. do calls to o.f.p.Foo interfaces instead of doing what they > usually do. This is already implemented in KNotifications and for Qt part we > have flatpak platform plugin. Then xdg-desktop-portal calls desktop specific > implementations to present native dialogs and have proper integration. That's > where xdg-desktop-portal-kde takes place. It exposes it's implementation on > DBus as org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde service. Then in case of KDE > when user requests a file dialog from a sandboxed application, Qt platform > plugin does a dbus call to xdg-desktop-portal instead of showing a dialog and > xdg-desktop-portal forwards this to our backend implementation and we show a > native dialog to the user, this time this dialog is not running in sandbox and > user can open a file which is outside the sandboxed application. Same way it > works with opening URLs, notifications etc.
Works for me, please put it through the kdereview process I see that it includes a private header from QtPrintSupport, I'm against doing this as it breaks any ABI assumptions. Jonathan
