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

[Simon McVittie]

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.

    smcv