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Package request: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
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Description

Name of the software

Project/product Homepage
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

Why we should include this into the repository, i.e. what does it do that the alternatives do not?
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome is the official xdg-desktop-portal front end for gnome xdg-desktop-portal-gtk does not cover screencasting which is needed for OBS-Studio and the gnome Recording tool

Is it open source?

If it is open source, please provide a link to the most up to date, versioned source tarball/zipfile. master.zip links will not be accepted.

GPL
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/blob/main/COPYING

tarball
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/archive/44.0/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome-44.0.tar.gz

Who and how many users do you anticipate will use this software?
IMO should be installed on the Gnome Spin media so every gnome user as it directly affect the user experience with the file picker support which is called by applications running in Xwayland

If there are no upstream releases but the inclusion policy is otherwise met, please provide a link to the source repository (i.e. GitHub)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

Event Timeline

10leej updated the task description. (Show Details)
ZachBacon added a subscriber: ZachBacon.

Btw that isn't GPL, it's LGPL.

it's now landed in unstable.