xdg-desktop-portal-niri

[estnml]

Hi, i am wondering if there are any plans to develop xdg-desktop-portal for niri? Currently i am using niri with xdg-desktop-portal-gtk and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome. But these 2 packages install so many dependencies to the system. Minimalist system users would be very glad if custom xdg-desktop-portal for niri that supports screensharing, file choosing etc. be developed. Thank you for this great software!

[bbb651]

File choosing is very out of scope, niri obviously won’t have a file manager, so I’m guessing you mean delegating it to a file manager but that needs some common api and the file chooser portal is that common api - there’s nothing preventing file managers from making a standalone portal implementation like xdg-desktop-portal-gtk and you can very easily mix and match portals.

For screensharing and global hotkeys it makes sense, for example the way virtual cast target is implemented being a virtual display is a bit of a hack and the global shortcuts implementation in the gnome portal will make it impossible to set declaratively within the config IIRC, it’s just a lot of work.

[estnml]

yes, what i meant by file choosing was the file chooser portal as you said. I think many users use portals for screenshare, global shortcut and file chooser. Of course, there are also those who use them for different portals, i dont have detailed information about inner workings of xdg-desktop-portal. For starting point, only these portals can be implemented, then others can be implemented according to the need. I think niri having its own desktop portal can be a big advantage in niri's development.

[YaLTeR]

There are kind of plans. In fact I'm currently experimenting with xdg-desktop-portal-niri. My initial plan is a screencast dialog (with properly exposed dynamic target) and a filechooser that properly falls back from nautilus to something else. But idk when anything will be ready