Subject: Re: bug#59825: [PATCH] gnu: Add flatpak-xdg-utils.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:00:11 +0100

Hi!

John Kehayias <[email-masked]> skribis:

> 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:
>
> guix shell -NC flatpak-xdg-utils --preserve='^DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS$' -- xdg-open "<https://guix.gnu.org>"
>
> which will open Guix's website on the host side.

Interesting (and scary as well, depending on how it’s implemented).

Don’t you need to share /tmp as well?  ‘DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS’ refers
to a socket in /tmp for me.

> 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.

<https://qa.guix.gnu.org/issue/59825> mentions a build failure on
i686-linux; could you take a look?

Apart from that, it LGTM!

Thanks,
Ludo’.