org.freedesktop.portal.background implementation in xdg-desktop-portal

[Mar0xy]

Hello,

I have been using an EQ app called Mini EQ for a tiny bit now but I sadly can't enable the background settings cause it requires org.freedesktop.portal.background to be implemented as a portal.

Upon checking the xdg-desktop-portal-dde repo I noticed it was not listed nor marked as implemented in the readme so I did a code search which showed the same result which kind of shocks me since the gtk/gnome and kde/plasma portal packages have it implemented but are obviously meant for their respective DEs.

How come the background portal up to now has never been implemented/considered?

[BLumia]

We simply didn't have any usage of this portal API. DDE support SNI so most applications will use SNI tray icon to tell the user there is an application running in the background.

We'll probably implement org.freedesktop.portal.background in future updates, patches are also welcome btw while it will affect multiple projects (maybe both xdg-desktop-portal-dde, dde-shell and dde-tray-loader) to ensure it works properly.

[Mar0xy]

Thanks for the reply,

Sure there are apps which support SNI but there are also a majority of apps which rely on the portal to run without a tray icon since their purpose is to run in the background like a system function (like in this example the EQ app is trying to do) or for other reasons (in fact you can run across multiple issues on other repos during a search about the portal missing)

Also sadly since I never really touched a linux distro/DE directly code-wise I would probably not be the best person to try to add something like that 😅