Supporting org.freedesktop.RemoteDesktop1

[Nicolas Fella]

On 01/09/2026 17:09, David Edmundson wrote:
> People at Gnome have reached out to be with regards to making a new
> standard to make it easier to develop remote desktop headless
> software. (i.e an RDP server, etc) with support from companies that
> develop this type software for enterprise use:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_requests/115.
> There is also a Matrix room.
>
> In general, it's very similar to the Remote Desktop portal, but with
> some subtle differences with regards to permissions and control.
>
> The main motivation for doing this elsewhere are that semantically
> this is for when we want to give full control; position monitors  (and
> disable local control), control keyboard layouts (and disable local
> control).
>
> In general KDE's goal is to make as many client applications work as
> best as possible, so given we're not going to get Gnome to implement
> ext_data_control or matching wayland protocols, supporting this seems
> sensible. It's nice that they've reached out.
>
> It's mostly a job of proxying one API to existing KDE API which is
> something we can relatively easily encapsulate. David Redondo and I
> have started initial work at:
> https://invent.kde.org/davidre/xdg-remote-desktop-kde with the
> intention of proposing it to Plasma as the standard is more
> formalised.

Hi,

I haven't looked at it in detail, but the idea seems reasonable.

Would KRdp use this, or would that exist in parallel?