Bug 404915

Summary:	can't use external download manager
Product:	[Applications] Falkon	Reporter:	Mikel Pérez <io>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Rosca <nowrep>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	justin.zobel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Flatpak
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Mikel Pérez 2019-02-28 17:15:14 UTC

shows an alert dialog

Cannot start external program! 
Executable: kget
Arguments: https://someurl

I guess flatpaks can't access programs out of the sandbox. how do we get around that?

Comment 1 Mikel Pérez 2019-02-28 17:17:56 UTC

I was able to use kget by selecting it from the picker. It spewed out a path like /run/user/1001/doc/332f4cf3/kget

Comment 2 Mikel Pérez 2019-02-28 17:24:47 UTC

no actually it didn't work

Comment 3 David Rosca 2019-03-01 15:20:41 UTC

It needs to use xdg-portal (https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/portal-docs.html#gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.OpenURI).
Ideally this would be done by the flatpak Qt platform, and not Falkon itself.

Comment 4 Justin Zobel 2020-10-25 06:07:33 UTC

Confirmed this is still an issue with flatpak downloaded just now.