xdg-desktop-portal-phosh

A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal that is using GTK/GNOME/Phosh to provide interfaces that aren't provided by the GTK portal.

There is also a Rust implementation under the binary name xdg-desktop-portal-phrosh and D-BUS name org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.phrosh. Currently it provides the following interfaces:

• org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Account
• org.freedesktop.impl.portal.AppChooser
• org.freedesktop.impl.portal.FileChooser
• org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Wallpaper

This project also contains thumbnailer which builds two executables:

• phosh-thumbnailer - A D-Bus service to thumbnail directories and files.
• ptcli - A CLI utility to interact with phosh-thumbnailer.

License

xdg-desktop-portal-phosh is licensed under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.

Getting the source

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/xdg-desktop-portal-phosh.git
cd xdg-desktop-portal-phosh

The main branch has the current development version.

Dependencies

On a Debian based system run

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential
sudo apt-get -y build-dep .

For an explicit list of dependencies check the Build-Depends entry in the debian/control file.

Building

We use the meson build system for xdg-desktop-portal-phosh. The quickest way to get going is to do the following:

meson setup _build
meson compile -C _build

Running

Running from the source tree

After making sure xdg-desktop-portal-phosh isn't already running in your use session:

systemctl stop --user xdg-desktop-portal-phosh.service
systemctl stop --user xdg-desktop-portal-phrosh.service # For Phrosh

you can run it from the source tree:

G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all _build/src/xdg-desktop-portal-phosh
G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all _build/src/xdg-desktop-portal-phrosh # For Phrosh

Getting in Touch

• Issue tracker: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/xdg-desktop-portal-phosh/issues
• Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#phosh:phosh.mobi