plasma5-xdg-desktop-portal-kde for KDE file dialog

[Tobias C. Berner]

Moin moin

sorry for not getting back to you earlier.

For me it seems to just work fine by doing
> GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 firefox

If  I recall correctly, previously I was also required to start some
dbus-service manually -- but that seems no longer to be a requirement.



mfg Tobias


On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 at 09:03, dinu rr <rrdinu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear KDE FreeBSD team,
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> Apologies if a direct email like this is not the correct method of communication.
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> I have tried to use the deskutils/plasma5-xdg-desktop-portal-kde package to make Firefox use the native KDE file dialog, by setting environment variable GTK_USE_PORTAL=1. However, it failed to work, with the error message that xdg desktop portal service was not running.
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> I could not find a separate package providing xdg desktop portal service, nor any documentation suggesting how to get this service running.
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> Could you please let me know whether it is possible to achieve what I am looking for?
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> I have asked this in the FreeBSD Forums, but have not received any replies so far.
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> Thank you so much for KDE on FreeBSD; it works wonderfully and you have been keeping it up to date promptly with new KDE releases. It's much appreciated.
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> Best regards.
> Dinu Radhakrishnan
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