Extensions with a native messaging host do not work

[janbuchar]

For instance, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integration/ - it depends on a host binary that is typically installed from the distribution package manager.

However, (at least when using the Arch linux PKGBUILD) there is no designated place in the Glide installation where native messaging hosts could be added. And it seems that the firefox directory is not used either.

I believe that Glide should either make it clear where to put native messaging hosts, or just look in the directory used by Firefox. What are your thought on that @RobertCraigie?

[RobertCraigie]

Do the paths mentioned in https://github.com/glide-browser/glide/releases/tag/0.1.50a work?

Looks like those aren't in the docs though... will update them!

[janbuchar]

Oh, okay! sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/org.kde.plasma.browser_integration.json /usr/lib/glide-browser/native-messaging-hosts/org.kde.plasma.browser_integration.json seems to have resolved the issue and the native part of the extension works. Thanks!

In the longer term, I guess we should add the glide directory to the plasma-browser-integration package, huh?

[RobertCraigie]

In the longer term, I guess we should add the glide directory to the plasma-browser-integration package, huh?

Might as well!

[janbuchar]

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-browser-integration/-/merge_requests/178

[imnotpoz]

I patched the unwrapped package from glide.nix to add ${glide}/lib/glide-browser-bin-0.1.62a/native-messaging-hosts/org.keepassxc.keepassxc_browser.json but there's an issue - keepassxc doesn't pick up on that path since it's in a random place in the nix store and I need to write the path there manually which isn't a good solution at all considering that the hash (and following, the path) can change at any time - on firefox currently I have ~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/ and was wondering if maybe ~/.config/glide/native-messaging-hosts/ would be the right way to do it here?