FS#66629 - [firefox] Add xdg-desktop-portal as an optdepends

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Hugo Osvaldo Barrera (hobarrera) - Tuesday, 12 May 2020, 14:16 GMT
Last edited by David Thurstenson (thurstylark) - Saturday, 12 March 2022, 18:54 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 4
Private No

Details

Description:

`xdg-desktop-portal` is required for screen sharing with Firefox (definitely is required for Wayland, I've no idea about Xorg).
It should be listed as an optional dependency.


Additional info:
* package version(s): 76.0.1-1
This task depends upon

Closed by  David Thurstenson (thurstylark)
Saturday, 12 March 2022, 18:54 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  firefox 89.0-1
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Tuesday, 12 May 2020, 18:15 GMT
Screen sharing is not supported on Wayland at all.
Comment by André (aandre) - Thursday, 18 June 2020, 17:29 GMT
Screen sharing is supported on Wayland thanks to pipewire, see for example [0].

Window screen sharing currently doesn't work with firefox from Arch Linux repository, but it works using [1].

According to [2] build flag `RTC_USE_PIPEWIRE=true` is required to use xdg-desktop-portal based screen casting.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PipeWire#WebRTC_screen_sharing
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fedora-firefox-wayland-bin/
[2] https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/wiki/Screencast-Compatibility
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Thursday, 18 June 2020, 22:30 GMT
This is a no-go as long as it requires massive patches.
Comment by filip (filip) - Sunday, 10 January 2021, 11:31 GMT
All the patches required for screen sharing via pipewire have landed upstream and are shipped since Firefox 84.0. Coincidentally, Firefox 84.0 seems to default to Wayland instead of X11 which breaks screen sharing unless `xdg-desktop-portal` is also installed. Therefore, I agree that `xdg-desktop-portal` should be listed as an optional dependency for Firefox 84.0 and above.
Comment by Patrik Tesarik (depate) - Thursday, 22 April 2021, 21:35 GMT
I second that. Most likely the Wayland WM or DM will provide the dependency, but e.g. sway does not.

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