Michaël

In my opinion, informing about this in the file chooser UIs will clutter them unnecessarily. To remove this permanent access, we then need to know how to properly ask users...

> Games are usually not sandboxed. Even Lutris flatpak allows games to run `flatpak-spawn --host ...` and break the sandbox. For unsanboxed games without using flatpak, then only the role...

> This is not an problem that can be easy solved. Programs are developed with the fact, that they have permanent access to a file, in mind (the file could...

Another thing that requires persistent access to files is perhaps if the app has a search provider. However, asking for a search provider, if persistent access is something to be...

@matthiasclasen @alexlarsson @nanonyme Is this issue still relevant? https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/issues/1119#note_436095493

A portal is needed when you need to pass information from a (logically) sandboxed app to the system (e.g. the notification portal). The portal code is responsible for validating this...

But it seems a standard is needed as per first comments. Also, if I'm not wrong, if someone also wants icons, this still need a standard validator somewhere.

@Makrennel: Could you give a link to the relevant Wayland protocol? @alice-mkh: If the compositor has validation or some equivalent for security, I guess there is no problem. But be...

To make sure we're talking about the same thing: This involves exporting the app menus so that the desktop environment presents them as a menu bar in, for example, its...

@Makrennel: Thanks!