kdereview - xdg-desktop-portal-kde

[Elvis Angelaccio]

On mercoledì 3 maggio 2017 07:00:14 CEST Jan Grulich wrote:

> > > > > 
> > > > > Do you have xdg-desktop-portal installed?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes.
> > > 
> > > Make sure that xdg-desktop-portal is running, it should be started
> > > automatically by flatpak, but you never know.
> > 
> > How do I check it? Is it a process that I should see?
> > 
> > > Also try to run xdg-desktop-
> > > portal-kde with debug enabled using:
> > > QT_LOGGING_RULES=xdg-desktop-portal-kde*.debug=true
> > > /path/to/xdg-desktop-
> > > portal-kde.
> > 
> > This just prints "Desktop portal registered successfuly", which I guess is
> > ok.
> > 
> > As soon as the test app freezes (instead of opening the file dialog), I
> > get
> > this in my journalctl: https://paste.kde.org/phcnn4uxn
> 
> I guess you have to make sure that xdg-desktop-portal-kde is installed to
> correct location. I have it in:
> - /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde.service
> - /usr/share/xdg- desktop-portal/portals/kde.portal -
> /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-kde
> 
> 
> I guess based on the log that the dbus service is important to have in
> correct place.

Thanks, this helped a bit. I had a relative path in the Exec entry of the 
.service file. Using an absolute path fixes the file dialogs, though I still 
don't get native notifications.

Btw it seems archlinux is using /usr/lib rather than /usr/libexec (the gnome 
portal installs /usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk).


> > > > >> 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