Supporting org.freedesktop.RemoteDesktop1

David Edmundson david at davidedmundson.co.uk
Mon Sep 14 13:23:54 BST 2026


>leaving the door open for a v3 that addresses software distribution

What's the potential issue with software distribution?

In flatpak it's just:
    "finish-args": [ "--talk-name=org.freedesktop.RemoteDesktop1"]

Snap seems to have a mechanism to request to talk to custom DBus services too.

Then it's on us in Discover to say "It's a remote desktop service" at
install time, rather than at run time which is kinda the better place
for something serious.


>And FWIW, we do have KDE mechanisms but we always knew that these were
not end-game material. But I understand the plan with this proposal is
to address the problem at once.

Ack, Gnome are doing this directly in mutter. I'm adding this as a
bridge into the custom KDE APIs like how the portal currently works.

David


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