[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1050917: phosh: please provide a phosh-portals.conf for xdg-desktop-portal

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 02:13:54PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream
> Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1301
> 
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 at 14:22:17 +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > I wasn't aware that `none` works, thanks for that!
> 
> I must admit that I've never actually tried that feature, so you might
> have to report bugs if it falls back to considering UseIn (I expect this
> to be a relatively rare use-case).
> 
> > Do you know of a way to have the config outside of `/etc/` so that
> > admins don't have to modify the conf file but can override it if they
> > want to make changes?
> 
> Since 1.17.1 it can/should be
> /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/phosh-portals.conf (and that's what I've been
> recommending in this MBF).
> 
> In the initial implementation of this feature in x-d-p
> 1.17.0, only /etc was searched, but I thought that was
> wrong, and fixed it to behave more like mimeapps.list in
> <https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1082> which was
> included in 1.17.1.
> 
> I opened <https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/issues/982> upstream
> with a suggested (but untested) change.

That helps, I'll take it from there. Thanks a lot!
 -- Guido