On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 06:32:38 +0000 Shawn Rutledge <shawn.rutle...@qt.io> wrote:
> Another aspect that I haven’t kept up with very well is how > containerized applications should do printing. We have “portal” > support for file dialogs, for example, but is CPDB intended to work > the same way regardless whether the app has such security > restrictions or not? For that matter, as a design principle, is > everyone still sure that the way for an application to reach outside > its container is D-Bus interfaces that are designed to be trusted? > https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2018/07/19/flatpak-a-look-behind-the-portal/ There's Print portal for that purpose: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/#gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.Print What good about it is it shows native file dialogs provided by the environment that comes as a portal backend daemon. Just like the FileDialog portal, it doesn't matter for the portal whether the application is actually sandboxed, so it could be used even in non-sandboxed environment. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
