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

[Neal Gompa <ngompa13 gmail com>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 8:50 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13 gmail com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Oh, and I forgot to mention, it doesn't collide with the host xdg-open
binary, either.



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