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

[dinu rr]

Dear Tobias,

Thank you for looking into this for me.

I have installed plasma5-xdg-desktop-portal-kde-5.24.5 on FreeBSD
13.0-RELEASE-p11. When I set GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 (through .profile), Firefox
fails to open file dialog, with the following error message:

(firefox:1552): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:21:25.013: Can't open portal file
chooser: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop was not provided by any .service files

I have dbus enabled through rc.conf and have a KDE desktop (installed with
plasma5-plasma-5.24.5).

Am I missing any packages (I have installed my entire desktop with binary
packages) or configuration?

Thanks again for your help.

Kind regards.
Dinu



On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 10:15 PM Tobias C. Berner <tcberner at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > Dear KDE FreeBSD team,
> >
> > Apologies if a direct email like this is not the correct method of
> communication.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I could not find a separate package providing xdg desktop portal
> service, nor any documentation suggesting how to get this service running.
> >
> > Could you please let me know whether it is possible to achieve what I am
> looking for?
> >
> > I have asked this in the FreeBSD Forums, but have not received any
> replies so far.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Best regards.
> > Dinu Radhakrishnan
> >
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/attachments/20220518/05c1f8c1/attachment.htm>