On 2022-05-26 23:55:02 +0000, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 01:03:57AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > It was actually due to a problem in Evolution that we made WebKitGTK > > > depend on xdg-desktop-portal (later downgraded to a recommendation): > > > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1845743 > > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213148 > > > > Ok, so Evolution uses sandboxing > > It's WebKit that does. The web content is handled by a process > (separate from the UI process) that runs inside a bubblewrap sandbox. > > In this case you need the portal in order to have access to the font > settings: > > https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/2861#issuecomment-494145504 > > It won't fail horribly if you don't have the portal installed, if > you're using X11 in principle it should work fine, but under Wayland > you won't get antialiased fonts.
IMHO, such explanations could be useful to users, who may wonder why xdg-desktop-portal-gtk is recommended or why some features are not available (in case the Recommends got broken, but this is unnoticed by the user). That could be some file under the /usr/share/doc/libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 directory. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
