Bug 404915 - can't use external download manager
Summary: can't use external download manager
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Falkon
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Flatpak Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Rosca
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Reported: 2019-02-28 17:15 UTC by Mikel Pérez
Modified: 2020-10-25 06:07 UTC (History)
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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.