[bug#59825] [PATCH] gnu: Add flatpak-xdg-utils.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> skribis:

> Here is a little package from the Flatpak folks which is also useful in a 
> guix shell container. This lets you run, for example, xdg-open in the 
> container and it will open on the host side. So let's say you come across a 
> URL, you can just use xdg-open from this package so it will open in the 
> host's web browser, rather than trying in the container. This relies on 
> having portals on the host side, like xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.
>
> Here is a simple test example:
>
> guix shell -NC flatpak-xdg-utils --preserve='^DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS$' -- 
> xdg-open "<https://guix.gnu.org>"
>
> which will open Guix's website on the host side.

Interesting (and scary as well, depending on how it’s implemented).

Don’t you need to share /tmp as well?  ‘DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS’ refers
to a socket in /tmp for me.

> From 8669a7fb0e1b9ba320c6312d7423500a56236edc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 17:06:19 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add flatpak-xdg-utils.
>
> * gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm (flatpak-xdg-utils): New variable.

<https://qa.guix.gnu.org/issue/59825> mentions a build failure on
i686-linux; could you take a look?

Apart from that, it LGTM!

Thanks,
Ludo’.