Design for Flatpak "device" portal

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Wed Oct 3 11:33:06 UTC 2018


On Wed, 2018-10-03 at 12:12 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> Nice! Thanks for working on this.
> 
> Would this include serial over usb?

No, because there's a kernel driver that sits in between the app and
the device, and not all interesting serial devices are USB devices.

>  Or would it be desirable to have a dedicated serial port portal?

Probably:
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/229



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