[bug#49972] [PATCH] gnu: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk: Update to 1.8.0.

[Andrew Whatson]

Hi John,

Yes I'm using the default gnome-desktop-service, perhaps your setup is
missing something provided by that.  The only thing I can recommend
(and maybe you're already doing this) is to launch your apps like
this:

  flatpak run --log-session-bus --log-system-bus --log-ally-bus com.foo.barapp

This gives some extra debug information from flatpak and the app,
which might help diagnose the problem.

Good luck!
Andrew

On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 05:18, John Kehayias
<john.kehayias@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Thursday, August 12th, 2021 at 6:30 AM, Andrew Whatson wrote:
>
> > Hi John,
> >
> > This package works for me as-is, just installing flatpak,
> >
> > xdg-desktop-portal, xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, and the patched p11-kit
> >
> > from #49957. I think flatpak launches the dbus services on-demand, so
> >
> > no additional setup is needed.
>
> Ah, thanks for that, I was confused over the dbus aspect. You are right, just 
> having them installed lets them get launched by flatpak applications.
>
> > The errors about the missing OpenURI
> >
> > handler are fixed by this update; seeing that a version bump fixed the
> >
> > problem, I haven't investigated further.
> >
>
> Hmm, I didn't notice a change between the versions here. In fact, I am still 
> getting an error that the OpenURI handler is not provided, despite seeing it 
> provided if I launch the portal manually with --verbose. (I didn't try the 
> change to p11-kit as I haven't run into those errors.)
>
> > With these patches I'm successfully running Teams and Discord via
> >
> > flatpak with no problems.
> >
>
> Good to know!
>
> I don't mean to derail the patch discussion, but did finally get the OpenURI 
> handler to work, but in an unexpected way: if I launch xdg-desktop-portal 
> manually and with --replace. Then it works. Perhaps some difference in 
> environment variables or something if it is launched via dbus? The only large 
> factor I can think of is that I'm not in a DE but just a WM (but have e.g. 
> xdg-open working).
>
> Would appreciate any further tips or bits of your setup, but seems like this 
> is on my end and not with the package maybe. Or else needing some 
> configuration when not in Gnome or similar.
>
> Thanks!
> John