[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1001185: flatpak: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome is not recommended

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 05 Dec 2021 at 22:45:57 +0100, Sophie Herold wrote:
> xdg-desktop-portal-gtk is recommended but lost some functionality to  xdg-
> desktop-portal-gnome. I'm not exactly sure how this works but I think  xdg-
> desktop-portal-gnome should be added to the recommendations as well?

Each desktop environment that wants first-class-citizen support for Flatpak
apps should pull in its appropriate x-d-p backend as part of the desktop.
For example, gnome-core (>= 1:41+1) does this for GNOME.

What we would really want to say in the Flatpak package is something like
"Depends: x-d-p-gnome if you use GNOME, or x-d-p-kde if you use KDE,
or x-d-p-wlr if you use Sway, or x-d-p-gtk otherwise", but there's no
way to express that in apt/dpkg dependency syntax, so we have to rely
on desktop environments to pull in the right backend for us. It also
scales better if the maintainer of x-d-p is not required to know about
every desktop environment!

It would seem inappropriate for Flatpak to recommend
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, because xdg-desktop-portal-gnome is
GNOME-specific and not intended to work on other desktop environments
(it might also work in Budgie, I'm not 100% clear on how they relate,
but will certainly not work as intended in GNOME forks like MATE and
Cinnamon).

Are you using GNOME, or some other desktop environment?

    smcv