Plans for portals that integrate widgets inside the app window?

[Sébastien Wilmet]

Hi again,

>From what I know, the first portals that will be implemented (e.g. the
file chooser portal) will open another window, that runs in another
process outside the sandbox.

But are there plans to have portals that integrate widgets *inside* the
app window?

The example that I have in mind is an integrated file browser in a side
panel of a text editor or IDE. Are there plans to implement such feature
securily? so that the app can access the filename and content of only
the files that the user has chosen to open.

It would probably need a compositor to integrate the drawing of the app
and the drawing of the integrated widget(s). With a D-Bus API like for
the "external" file chooser portal.

I know an implementation for that is not going to happen anytime soon,
one thing at a time, but I'm curious to know the overall plans.

--
Sébastien