Actually, what is a Freedesktop Portal?

Getting complex Linux applications to work in the same way across many setups seems tricky at first, but all you need to do is “think with portals”.

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It's important to note that not all portals are implemented on all desktop environments. You can see this as a reference table: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal#List_of_backends_and_interfaces
- You also use the portal helper from another DE though.
  
  For example, the Niri Wayland compositor, written in Rust with Smithay, uses xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (which I imagine is written in C).
That was actually very informative. Thank you.
try the archive https://web.archive.org/web/20250613134705/https://thelibre.news/actually-what-is-a-freedesktop-portal/

whoever configured thelibre web server should be replaced, at the very least. loads as if it's on the dark side of the moon.

edit: cool article though