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There is a mechanism for this called portals (1) available in flatpak. It gets integrated into the GUI toolkit, and certain applications are not supported. It i

There is a mechanism for this called portals (1) available in flatpak. It gets integrated into the GUI toolkit, and certain applications are not supported. It is useful for things like accessing files from outside the default sandbox. 1. https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portal-api-reference.html https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portal-api-reference.html

its-summertime 6y ago
specifically, anything that uses the generic GTK/Qt way of accessing files via the file chooser will automagically use the portal Anything that tweaks on that, most notably Electron, will not use the portal
- akvadrako 6y ago
  That's a choice of Electron - it could and should use portals.