[ostfriese4]

Libportal is used by more than 50 apps on Flathub (some of the results are patches). It has been rejected from freedesktop SDK.

This is my first attempt to create a shared module, so please correct me.

[teamcons]

@CodedOre @barthalion do we want this?

I think it could be neat

[orowith2os]

fwiw I say yes. It's a pretty commonly used library for interacting with XDP, and it makes more sense to have here than in the SDK, since it's tied to some graphics libraries (GTK and QT).

[orowith2os]

@ostfriese4 if you want to go through and make apps use the shared module instead of vendoring the file, that would be a nice bonus.

[ostfriese4]

Yes. I just started doing it

[sabriunal]

The GNOME runtime version 51 provides the libportal module. Since most applications already use the GNOME runtime, they do not need—or will very soon no longer need—to access this module via shared-modules.

There are only 7 applications that require the libportal module but do not use the GNOME runtime.

IMHO, attempting to provide the libportal module through shared-modules may not be particularly useful.

(google translate)

• https://github.com/flathub/com.github.wwmm.easyeffects/blob/master/easyeffects-modules.json#L208
• https://github.com/flathub/io.github.archisman_panigrahi.typhoon/blob/master/io.github.archisman_panigrahi.typhoon.json
• https://github.com/flathub/com.tencent.wemeet/blob/master/com.tencent.wemeet.yml
• https://github.com/flathub/com.github.zocker_160.SyncThingy/blob/master/com.github.zocker_160.SyncThingy.yml#L50
• https://github.com/flathub/io.github.input_leap.input-leap/blob/master/io.github.input_leap.input-leap.yaml#L174
• https://github.com/flathub/org.deskflow.deskflow/blob/master/org.deskflow.deskflow.yml#L53
• https://github.com/flathub/nl.hjdskes.gcolor3/blob/master/nl.hjdskes.gcolor3.yml

[teamcons]

That was kind of my impression at first, but since ostfriese offered to create it, and thus maintain it as its submitter, then i though there was some usecase where the gnome runtime was not desired but libportal was.

They seem committed, so why not. Too late now anyway.

[orowith2os]

I would expect more apps to come out over time that don't use the GNOME runtime but want libportal.

Worst case, if the number doesn't really track above maybe ~15 ish in the somewhat near/near-ish future, we can always drop it from shared-modules.

[teamcons]

meh. Thats all a nitpick. Having it doesnt hurt anyone.