On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:04:02 GMT, Michael Strauß <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Flatpak is a framework for distributing desktop applications across various >> Linux distributions, that runs each application into its own sandbox to >> limit its access to the host environment to the strict minimum, including >> access to the network, HW devices or the host file system. >> To do so, it provides a specific set of APIs, known as "XDG Desktop Portal " >> that the guest application must be aware of to take full advantage of ; >> which is not the case for Java/JavaFX based applications. >> >> Fortunately, some level of support for XDG Desktop Portal is baked into >> GTK3, which JavaFX could easily take advantage of. >> One such opportunity is replace explicit uses of GtkFileChooserDialog with >> GtkFileChooserNative. >> >> GtkFileChooserNative is an abstraction of a dialog box suitable for use with >> "File/Open" or "File/Save as" commands. By default, this just uses a >> GtkFileChooserDialog to implement the actual dialog. However, on certain >> platforms, such as Windows and macOS, the native platform file chooser is >> used instead. >> When the application is running in a sandboxed environment without direct >> filesystem access (such as Flatpak), GtkFileChooserNative may call the >> proper APIs (portals) to let the user choose a file and make it available to >> the application. > > Looks good. Thanks for the review @mstr2 Could I please get a second review for this? @johanvos, @lukostyra maybe? Thanks! ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/2025#issuecomment-4012048019
