Source: i3-wm
Severity: normal
Tags: trixie sid
User: xdg-desktop-por...@packages.debian.org
Usertags: portals.conf
xdg-desktop-portal 1.17.x introduces a new way to select which portals will
be used for which desktop environments, modelled on mimeapps.list:
- each desktop environment should provide a file like
/usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/i3-portals.conf
- the filename is ${DESKTOP}-portals.conf where ${DESKTOP} is the desktop
environment's entry in $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP (the same as the DesktopNames
from /usr/share/{x,wayland-}sessions/*.desktop), folded to lower case
- sysadmins and users can override this via files named portals.conf or
${DESKTOP}-portals.conf in various locations like /etc/xdg-desktop-portal
and ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal
Please see portals.conf(5) or its source code
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/main/doc/portals-conf.rst
for full details.
If I'm reading its code correctly, I think i3-wm asks the display manager
to set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to "i3"?
As a backwards-compatibility mechanism, x-d-p will fall back to trying to
guess the most appropriate portals from the portals' deprecated UseIn=
fields, but it will log warnings when it does that, and anyway Debian
doesn't currently ship any portal backends that are flagged as suitable
for i3. Please add an i3-portals.conf to tell x-d-p more explicitly
what backends i3-wm is meant to be using by default.
For example, if the intention is to use the x-d-p-gtk backend,
the way to write that would be:
[preferred]
default=gtk;
The desktop environment (either i3-wm or some larger metapackage) should
probably also have a Recommends, or at least a Suggests, on whatever
portals would be most appropriate for it.
Thanks,
smcv
--
This is part of a mass bug filing:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/08/msg00311.html
