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[PATCH] gnu: Add flatpak-xdg-utils.

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From: John Kehayias <john.kehayias <at> protonmail.com>
To: 59825 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#59825] [PATCH] gnu: Add flatpak-xdg-utils.
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 22:15:23 +0000

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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

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