Bug#1050803: mate-session-manager: please provide a mate-portals.conf for xdg-desktop-portal

2023-09-24 Thread Simon McVittie 
Control: reassign -1 mate-desktop 1.26.1-1
Control: affects -1 mate-session-manager
Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream pending

On Sun, 24 Sep 2023 at 15:50:37 +, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> On  Di 29 Aug 2023 12:52:06 CEST, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > Please
> > add an mate-portals.conf to tell x-d-p more explicitly what backends
> > MATE is meant to be using by default.
> 
> The mate-portals.conf will be shipped in mate-desktop (providing the
> libmate-desktop-* base library) starting with mate-desktop 1.26.2.
> (Uploading in some minutes).
> 
> The mate-session-manager bit, I need to check deeper.

For the purposes of this bug, it doesn't matter whether mate-portals.conf
is in mate-session-manager or in one of its dependencies, as long as
installing a somewhat minimal MATE desktop will pull it in.

mate-session-manager is the package that owns
/usr/share/xsessions/mate.desktop, so ideally installing
mate-session-manager ought to provide mate-portals.conf either
directly or indirectly. m-s-m depends on mate-desktop-common, and it seems
that you added mate-portals.conf to m-d-c, so I think this bug is now
solved: reassigning to mate-desktop-common so that it can be closed as
fixed in 1.26.2-1.

Thanks,
smcv

Bug#1050803: mate-session-manager: please provide a mate-portals.conf for xdg-desktop-portal

2023-09-24 Thread Mike Gabriel 

Hi Simon,

On  Di 29 Aug 2023 12:52:06 CEST, Simon McVittie wrote:


Package: mate-session-manager
Severity: normal
Tags: trixie sid
User: xdg-desktop-por...@packages.debian.org
Usertags: portals.conf

[...]

Please
add an mate-portals.conf to tell x-d-p more explicitly what backends
MATE is meant to be using by default.


The mate-portals.conf will be shipped in mate-desktop (providing the  
libmate-desktop-* base library) starting with mate-desktop 1.26.2.  
(Uploading in some minutes).


The mate-session-manager bit, I need to check deeper.

Greets,
Mike
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Bug#1050803: mate-session-manager: please provide a mate-portals.conf for xdg-desktop-portal

2023-09-11 Thread Simon McVittie 
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop/issues/574
Control: tags -1 + upstream

On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 at 11:52:06 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Please
> add an mate-portals.conf to tell x-d-p more explicitly what backends
> MATE is meant to be using by default.

I opened an upstream issue with more context: please see above.

If this isn't fixed via an upstream change, it would be appropriate
(and quite easy) to do this as a Debian-specific change.

Thanks,
smcv

Bug#1050803: mate-session-manager: please provide a mate-portals.conf for xdg-desktop-portal

2023-08-29 Thread Simon McVittie 
Package: mate-session-manager
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/mate-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.

As a backwards-compatibility mechanism, x-d-p will fall back to trying
to guess the most appropriate portals from the portals' 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 MATE
(although I see there's an ITP open for x-d-p-xapp, #1038946). Please
add an mate-portals.conf to tell x-d-p more explicitly what backends
MATE is meant to be using by default.

For example, if the intention is to try to use the -xapp backend, falling
back to -gtk if -xapp isn't installed or doesn't know how to do something,
the way to write that would be:

[preferred]
default=xapp;gtk;

The desktop environment (either mate-session-manager 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

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