• hschen@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    The permission popups on gnome a recent thing?, i know you get popups on both kde and gnome for screensharing. But i haven’t heard about this and the last time i used gnome was about 3 months ago

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, permission popups are absolutely a thing. The system for that is called Portals: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portal-api-reference.html. The idea is an application asks for the tightest sandbox it needs to run, and then uses the Portal API to request capabilities at runtime, such as access to specific files or permission to start automatically. The catch is you can’t just make legacy applications magically use an API like that: it requires work on both ends. But it’s certainly happening, bit by bit :)