Re: [atomic-devel] xdg-open-gateway

[Neal Gompa <ngompa13 gmail com>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 8:47 AM Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 11:04 AM Vladimir Panteleev <projectatomic thecybershadow net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> A while ago, I was looking for a way to have bubblewrap'd programs open
>> files and URLs outside their container, and stumbled upon the Snap
>> project's snapd-xdg-open:
>>
>> https://github.com/snapcore/snapd-xdg-open
>>
>
> This looks very similar to https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-xdg-utils, which still exists and provides
> the same functionality for flatpak, by talking to the OpenURI portal.
>

The key difference is that the Flatpak one requires portal
integration, while xdg-open-gateway does not. Trivially
confined/sandboxed applications who attempt to access xdg-open are
correctly redirected to the host to trigger the OpenURI action.


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