[Question] Are there plans to support more of the XDG Portal specification?

[Diegovsky]

Since screencast and screenshot have the ability to use a graphic chooser (#59) are there plans to implement more of the XDG Portal implementation? (like FileChooser, Notification, etc)

[emersion]

Nope. These don't need any special interaction with the compositor.

[danshick]

It is important to note that you can install multiple portals and other implementations (gtk, kde, etc.) will act as a fallback for what we don't implement.

[Diegovsky]

Thanks for the clarification :)

[languitar]

At least for the GTK portal implementation there are ongoing discussions whether it is viable/wanted to launch at all in a non-gnome context (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/issues/74 and https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/merge_requests/78). Moreover, there's an open PR for xdg-desktop-portal that might also render some of the currently used fallback logic unusable (flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#985). I am not sure if the current way of only selectively providing a few parts of the spec will continue to work in the future.

[emersion]

xdp-gnome is different from xdp-gtk.

[languitar]

Oh, you are right. Then the current fallback only depends on xdg-desktop-portal-gtk not declaring any required desktop.