Created also https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/merge_requests/246
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 13:56, Bastien Nocera <had...@hadess.net> wrote: > Hey, > > 15 years ago, in another age, nautilus-sendto was created so that one > could easily send files from nautilus via email. Then via email and > Gaim. Via email, Gaim and Bluetooth. And Gajim. And now Pidgin not > Gaim. And then Empathy and UPnP servers. And then just email again, > because the UI was quite frankly absolutely awful. > > But nautilus-sendto doesn't work in a sandbox. And there's pretty > similar but more capable code that can be run in xdg-desktop-portal- > gtk, the gnome-ish Flatpak/Snap portal. > > So I would recommend that applications that use nautilus-sendto right > now, start using the portal D-Bus API directly instead: > > https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/master/data/org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Email.xml > > This is an example of using said API: > https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-xdg-utils/blob/master/src/xdg-email.c > > You could but I would not recommend using xdg-email if your application > will be used outside of a Flatpak because it will end up running this > code: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/blob/master/scripts/xdg-email.in > which might, or might not work. It's brittle and ugly. > > Note the regressions though: > - Some email clients are not as well supported in xdg-desktop-portal-gtk: > https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/187 > https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/188 > https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/189 > - There is no support for zipping files up before sending them. This > was only used by nautilus, and nautilus can replace/enhance this by > using its native archive support. > > Here are a number of issues I filed against applications that use > nautilus-sendto: > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell/issues/111 > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/1091 > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rhythmbox/issues/1695 > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/928 > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/yelp/issues/141 > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-commander/issues/83 > > I'll have the code moved to the archives after the 3.32 release, at the > start of the new development cycle: > https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/GitLab/issues/380 > > Cheers > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >
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