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xdg-desktop-portal intergration #10

Open gourdcaptain opened 2 months ago

gourdcaptain commented 2 months ago

I keep video files I edit subtitles on with Aegisub stored on a NAS I mount under /mnt/nas due to the large and bulky size of the collection relative to the internal disk space of the systems in question. The current version of the Aegisub flatpak is limited to folders in the home directory, so any sources of files that are on removable drives or other filesystems are just invisible inside the Flatpak. I knew enough to use Flatseal to add the filesystem, but many users would be stumped and stuck at this point.

I think there's ways for programs designed for portal integration to get around this, but I'm guessing Aegisub as an older program largely in maintenance mode doesn't support this?

zefr0x commented 2 months ago

I think there's ways for programs designed for portal integration to get around this, but I'm guessing Aegisub as an older program largely in maintenance mode doesn't support this?

Aegisub uses wxWidgets which by itself could be configured in build-time to use GTK3 (The option that is used for this flatpak build).

In GTK4 it would be enabled by default, but in GTK3 you will need to set GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 in your environment.

Any way, for it to work wxWidgets must use GtkFileChooserNative as the file picker dialog, which is yet an open issue: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/issues/24486

When this issue get resolved I will set GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 in this flatpak environment, so users don't need to do any thing.

I don't think that we can drop the current file-system permissions (--filesystem=home) even after that, since we still can't open files from our file-browser without it, unless there was a portal to give permissions for files from other applications.