On 2025-04-03 20:53:48 Darrell Anderson via tde-devels wrote: > On 4/3/25 3:31 PM, blu.256 via tde-devels wrote: > > It looks like your Firefox is configured for portals and > > xdg-desktop-portal-tde probably installed correctly. > > > > I assume you are running a full TDE session, since the TDE portal will > > only automatically start within it. > > > > Getting xdg-desktop-portal to work can be a little tricky and there is > > always a probability of a bug, so if you're OK with a little bit of > > debugging, you can run the xdg-desktop-portal in verbose mode and mail me > > the log, or even better post it as an issue in TGW mentioning the > > distribution. > > > > How to do it: > > ``` > > $ killall xdg-desktop-portal > > $ /path/to/xdg-desktop-portal -v > > I don't know the root cause yet, but I have more information to share. > > With some reflection, I realized Firefox is launching the KDE file > picker portal and not the generic Qt. I was fooled by this because the > dialog was opening with all of the generic flat icons and did not look > like the normal KDE file picker I had configured in my KDE environment. > > The xdg-desktop-portal-tde.desktop is installed in > /opt/trinity/share/applications rather than > /opt/trinity/share/applications/tde like all other TDE desktop files. > > The org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.tde.service file is installed in > /usr/share/dbus-1/services, the same place as > org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde.service. > > The tde.portal file is installed in > /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/portals, the same as the kde.portal file. > The tde.portal file has UseIn=Trinity where the kde.portal has UseIn=KDE. > > I do not think 'Trinity' is a valid XDG reference and the key should be > UseIn=TDE. The sources show UseIn=Trinity and should be patched to > UseIn=TDE. Refer to > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/onlyshowin-registry >.html. > > I changed UseIn=Trinity to UseIn=TDE. Initially that did not seem to do > anything because when I launched Firefox the KDE portal launched. More > on that change later. > > Next I moved xdg-desktop-portal-tde.desktop to > /opt/trinity/share/applications/tde/. Moving the file made no difference. > > I terminated Firefox and killed all portal processes each time. > > Next I killed the portal processes while leaving Firefox running. I > launched /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal --verbose. The output spew > showed that xdg-desktop-portal had selected the TDE portal for the file > picker ("Using tde.portal for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.FileChooser in > TDE"). The process list showed both the KDE and TDE portals. I tried to > use Firefox File-->Open and the TDE file picker dialog opened. > > I closed Firefox and killed the portal processes. I launched Firefox and > again killed the portal processes. I manually launched > /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal but not verbose. I launched Firefox and > again the TDE file picker opened. > > I closed Firefox and killed the portal processes. I manually launched > /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal without verbose and as a background > process. The process list showed both the KDE and TDE portals. I > launched Firefox and the TDE file picker dialog was used. > > I created a $TDEHOME/Autostart desktop file to force launch > /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal. After starting my TDE session, the > process list showed the TDE portal. Again Firefox used the TDE file picker. > > Seems when xdg-desktop-portal is manually launched before launching > Firefox then everything behaves as expected. Having Firefox launch > xdg-desktop-portal fails to call the TDE portal. > > I removed the temporary autostart file. Although Firefox had > widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker=1, just to be sure, I toggled > all other widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.* options to 1. I then renamed > kde.portal to kde.portal.bak. I logged out and restarted TDE. I verified > no portal processes. I launched Firefox and saw that there was no kde > portal process and the tde portal process was running. Firefox then used > the TDE file picker. > > Some more trial-and-error testing indicates UseIn=TDE does need to > change in the sources. > > Although the TDE portal will launch manually and everything behaves, > seems KDE is receiving priority over TDE when both portals are > available. I don't know where the mixup might be. Could be me. Could be > Slackware. Could be TDE. Could be something else. I think the TDE portal > package is fine. One way or another something is awry. > > I hope the information helps. Any feedback is welcomed. :) > > ____________________________________________________ > tde-devels mailing list -- devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devels-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/devels@trinitydesk >top.org [Slightly off-topic:] I have wished for a looong time that I didn't have to use the crappy native Firefox file dialog, and now it seems I might be able to! but currently my machine shows $ ps -A -f xdg-desktop-portal leslie 11996 11169 0 Mar30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal leslie 12022 11169 0 Mar30 ? 00:00:06 /usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk rc=0 and about:config shows 2 for all of the widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.* settings. (Is there somewhere a specification for the settings in about:config? It seems to be deliberately obstructive about the meanings of (especially) numeric values.) Should I set these from 2 to 1? Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.3 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ tde-devels mailing list -- devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devels-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/devels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
