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> xdg desktop portal workarounds Desktop portals are not "workarounds", they are the new correct APIs to use

• superkuh 3y ago
  ... the new correct API to use to work around containers and all the problems being containerized causes. >Portals are the framework for securely accessing resources from outside an application sandbox. They provide a range of common features to applications, including: Determining network status, opening a file with a file chooser, opening URIs, taking screenshots and screencasts [...] https://lwn.net/Articles/694291/ https://lwn.net/Articles/694291/ All things being containerized messes up which require workarounds. xdg desktop portal attempts to provide these but most of the time it fails to do so fully.
• JohnFen 3y ago
  Says who? They look like workaraounds to me.