A standard for file browser widgets

[Soni L.]

On 2020-06-10 8:58 p.m., jtojnar at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-06-10 at 20:16 -0300, Soni L. wrote:
> > I'd like to propose the following standard for file browser widgets:
>
> We already have xdg-desktop-portal, which allows applications to use
> the preferred file chooser of the desktop environment. Most modern apps
> already support that, since it is a requirement for filesystem
> sandboxing in Flatpak, either by default through toolkit (e.g.
> GtkFileChooserNative) or at least have an option to enable it (e.g.
> Firefox's `GTK_USE_PORTAL`).
>
> There are two major implementations: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk and xdg-
> desktop-portal-kde or you can roll your own if you are unhappy with
> either.
>
There doesn't appear to be a spec for that.