--file-forwarding does not work with org.freedesktop.Application.Open #4408
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When DBusActivatable=true, applications might spawn the application as a D-Bus service, then call and RPC to open the file. That breaks the --file-forwarding in Flatpak. For now, just disable it so we get the right thing. See also: flatpak/flatpak#4408 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/issues/143
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When using --file-forwarding to open files from command line arguments the target application will get a document that has been accessed via the document portal.
However, if the application is launched using
--gapplication-service, then GLib-based applications (such as Nautilus) will use either theorg.freedesktop.Applicationororg.gtk.ApplicationD-Bus interface to callOpen(). Files opened this way are not forwarded via the document portal and therefore fail to open.This was discovered when tracking down https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/issues/143 for which the current workaround is to just remove
DBusActivatable=truein the.desktopfile.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: