Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add flatpak-xdg-utils.
From: John Kehayias <[email-masked]>
To: Guix-patches <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 22:15:23 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Guix,

Here is a little package from the Flatpak folks which is also useful in a guix shell container. This lets you run, for example, xdg-open in the container and it will open on the host side. So let's say you come across a URL, you can just use xdg-open from this package so it will open in the host's web browser, rather than trying in the container. This relies on having portals on the host side, like xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.

Here is a simple test example:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix shell -NC flatpak-xdg-utils --preserve='^DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS$' -- xdg-open "<https://guix.gnu.org>"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

which will open Guix's website on the host side.

I've checked it works, the license (some files LGPL2+ other LGPL2.1+), linted, and styled. I adjusted the description from upstream slightly to indicate it is not just for Flatpak sandboxes.

Thanks!
John
From 8669a7fb0e1b9ba320c6312d7423500a56236edc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Kehayias <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 17:06:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add flatpak-xdg-utils.

* gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm (flatpak-xdg-utils): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm b/gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm
index 077d56ad3d..073bc1e754 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm
@@ -2530,6 +2530,40 @@ (define-public snixembed
 @end itemize")
     (license license:isc)))
 
+(define-public flatpak-xdg-utils
+  (package
+    (name "flatpak-xdg-utils")
+    (version "1.0.5")
+    (source (origin
+              (method git-fetch)
+              (uri (git-reference
+                    (url "https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-xdg-utils")
+                    (commit version)))
+              (file-name (git-file-name name version))
+              (sha256
+               (base32
+                "1q8wsc46fcjm737hz10jvgci5wl9sz8hj9aix2y2zdj11bqib9af"))))
+    (build-system meson-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     (list #:phases #~(modify-phases %standard-phases
+                        (replace 'check
+                          (lambda* (#:key tests? #:allow-other-keys)
+                            (when tests?
+                              (invoke "dbus-run-session" "--" "meson" "test"
+                                      "--print-errorlogs")))))))
+    (inputs (list glib))
+    (native-inputs (list dbus pkg-config))
+    (synopsis
+     "Simple portal-based commandline tools for use inside sandboxes")
+    (description
+     "This package contains a number of commandline utilities for use inside
+Flatpak sandboxes and other containers, like @command{guix shell --container}.
+They work by talking to portals.  Currently, there is flatpak-spawn for
+running commands in sandboxes as well as xdg-open and xdg-email, which are
+compatible with the well-known scripts of the same name.")
+    (home-page "https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-xdg-utils")
+    (license (list license:lgpl2.0+ license:lgpl2.1+))))
+
 (define-public libportal
   (package
     (name "libportal")
-- 
2.38.1