Subject: Re: [bug#42348] [PATCH 0/4] Add xdg-desktop-portal
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Anders Thuné <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:55:24 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Anders,

Anders Thuné <[email-masked]> skribis:

> This patch series adds xdg-desktop-portal and the xdg-desktop-portal-gtk backend.
> It also adds pipewire 0.3 (which xdg-desktop-portal depends on) - I did not
> update the existing pipewire package since there were packages depending on it.

It would be nice if you could check as a followup whether we can just
upgrade ‘pipewire’ to 0.3.  See ‘guix refresh -l [email-masked]’ for the
list of dependents to rebuild.

> xdg-desktop-portal greatly improves the usability of Flatpak-installed apps,
> allowing them to open file chooser dialogs, open links, et.c. This was
> requested in issue 37289.

You would still need to make it a dependency of Flatpak though, no?

> Anders Thuné (4):
>   gnu: Add pipewire-0.3.
>   gnu: Add libportal.
>   gnu: Add xdg-desktop-portal.
>   gnu: Add xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.

I took the liberty to tweak descriptions according to our guidelines:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Synopses-and-Descriptions.html

Applied, thanks!

Ludo’.