[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] xdg-desktop-portal and pipewire question

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 7:25 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at collabora.com> wrote:
> Pipewire maintainers: is Pipewire sufficiently stable that you think it's
> a good idea to enable it in GNOME Shell and xdg-desktop-portal?
>
> GNOME Shell maintainers: would you be happy with that?

See https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/mutter/merge_requests/17

I don't know if pipewire is stable because I haven't used it for
anything. I don't see a problem with enabling the feature except that
we'll need to disable it in Ubuntu for now because pipewire is in
universe.
(Ubuntu is also trying to promote xdg-desktop-portal-gtk to "main" for
18.10: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1749672 .)

To enable it properly in GNOME, I think we need to package
gnome-remote-desktop, install gnome-remote-desktop by default, and
enable the experimental gsettings flag by default.

I think we should try to do that in time for Buster. I am not working
on packaging gnome-remote-desktop now and I'm unaware of any WIP
packaging for it.

The last time I looked, Fedora still wasn't installing
gnome-remote-desktop by default or setting the gsettings flag.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha