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diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2548b66 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +xdg-desktop-portal (1.17.1-1) experimental; urgency=medium + + Since xdg-desktop-portal 1.17.0, portal implementation backends are + selected with a new mechanism documented in portals.conf(5). + Each desktop environment should provide a file at + /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/${DESKTOP}-portals.conf listing the + preferred portal implementations to be used in that desktop environment. + + System administrators and users can override this via files named + portals.conf or ${DESKTOP}-portals.conf in /etc/xdg-desktop-portal + or ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal, and users of customized or otherwise + unsupported desktop environments should also use this mechanism to set + up their preferred portals. Please see portals.conf(5) for full details. + + ${DESKTOP} is the desktop environment's entry in $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP + (also seen in DesktopNames in /usr/share/{x,wayland-}sessions/*.desktop), + with ASCII upper case transformed to lower case. For example, + the budgie-desktop package sets XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Budgie:GNOME, + so Budgie sessions will use budgie-portals.conf if provided, or fall + back to GNOME's gnome-portals.conf if not. + + -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:50:54 +0100 |