kdereview - xdg-desktop-portal-kde

[Elvis Angelaccio]

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Jan Grulich <jgrulich at redhat.com> wrote:
> On úterý 2. května 2017 14:19:04 CEST Elvis Angelaccio wrote:
>> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Jan Grulich <jgrulich at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On úterý 2. května 2017 12:21:31 CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
>> >> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>> >> > El dimarts, 2 de maig de 2017, a les 7:22:04 CEST, Jan Grulich va
>> >
>> > escriure:
>> >> >> On pondělí 1. května 2017 22:59:44 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> >> >> > El divendres, 21 d’abril de 2017, a les 8:10:36 CEST, Jan Grulich va
>> >> >>
>> >> >> escriure:
>> >> >> > > Hi,
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > > I would like to request review of xdg-desktop-portal-kde [1]. We
>> >> >> > > would
>> >> >> > > like
>> >> >> > > to make it part of Plasma releases, see [2].
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > > What is xdg-desktop-portal-kde:
>> >> >> > > It's a KDE implementation of Flatpak portals backend [3],
>> >> >> > > currently
>> >> >> > > with
>> >> >> > > support of AppChooser, FileChooser, Notification and Print
>> >> >> > > portals.
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > > One mentioned issue on plasma-devel mailing list was usage of Qt's
>> >> >> > > private
>> >> >> > > print API. This will most likely go away if I find out it's
>> >> >> > > useless,
>> >> >> > > otherwise I'll have to keep it as it's used to set CUPS properties
>> >> >> > > which
>> >> >> > > are not available to the outside world.
>>
>> Hi, doesn't seem to work here. If I click Open in your test app I get:
>>
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog: File dialog: selectedNameFilter()
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog: File dialog: selectedFiles()
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog: File dialog: show()
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog: File dialog: initializeDialog()
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog: Initial values:
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog:        Multiple files:  true
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog:          Accept label:  "Open (portal)"
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog:           Window title:  "Flatpak
>> test - open dialog"
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog:             Save/Open:  Open
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog:          Name filters:  ("plain
>> text document (*.txt *.asc *,v *.doc)", "PNG image (*.png)")
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog:     MimeTypes filters:
>> ("text/plain", "image/png")
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog:     Initial directory:
>> "file:///home/elvis" qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog: File dialog:
>> exec()
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog: Couldn't get reply
>> qt.qpa.qflatpakplatform.FileDialog: Error:  "Did not receive a reply.
>> Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply,
>> the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
>> expired, or the network connection was broken."
>>
>> but I don't see any file dialog (the app just freezes). Not sure if
>> related, but I also have xdg-desktop-portal-gtk installed.
>
> Do you have xdg-desktop-portal installed?

Yes.

>
>> Another thing, shouldn't we renamed it to xdg-desktop-portal-plasma?
>> (at least the repository/package, which is what the end user is going
>> to install).
>
> Not sure, gnome folks use xdg-desktop-portal-gtk because it's only gtk related
> and not tied to Gnome, but we use both Qt and KDE Frameworks so I decided to
> go for xdg-desktop-portal-kde, there is nothing really Plasma specific.

The point is to integrate flatpak Qt applications with Plasma, no?
(plasma file picker, plasma notifications, etc.)
Or I can use this portal also to integrate a Qt application with, say, LXQt?

>
> Jan

Elvis