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Appearance GTK portals

Hello everyone,

I tried using a flatpak app the other day and it was effectively not usable because it wasn't getting the correct theme from... "gtk portals"?

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This effectively makes flatpaks not "technically broken" but such a UX nightmare to use that they are effectively not usable.


The picture I shared is from a different app, I'm assuming it's the same issue, I'm sharing because it may contain helpful information.

This is the issue I created for the app I was having a problem with.

https://github.com/localsend/localsend/issues/1459

This is the documentation from flatpak

https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portals.html

This looks like the project that is supposed to make it work for xfce?

https://github.com/linuxmint/xdg-desktop-portal-xapp

This issue mentions the problem:

https://github.com/linuxmint/xdg-desktop-portal-xapp/issues/17

And apparently it's not possible to resolve this without xfce support?


I know nothing about how any of it works, but I'm willing to learn and work on a solution if you can point me in the right direction.