Re: [Evolution] Error with Links (Flatpak build)

[Douglas Summers <ajgringo619 cox net>]

On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 09:00 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 12:50 -0700, Douglas Summers wrote:
> > ... https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Flatpak ...
> > ...
> > GDBus.Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> > org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop was not provided by any .service
> > files.
>       Hi,
> as is written on the page you referenced, Evolution in flatpak runs
> as
> a pure sandbox, which also means that it doesn't talk to local
> services. Other flatpak applications do not do that, they even rely
> on
> local services, like for example gnome-contacts or gnome-calendar,
> which build against certain version of evolution-data-server, but
> then
> talk to the local service over D-Bus, which means that if you require
> any change in the calendar/book backend you won't get it in flatpak
> unless you run patched version on the local machine. Evolution is
> different and it has such price.
>
> What you'd need is a D-Bus session which would be able to "proxy"
> requests to another D-Bus session. It wasn't possible in time when
> I've
> been creating that wiki page and the flatpak build script. Maybe it
> changed during the past months (like with the portals), I do not
> know.
>       Bye,
>       Milan

Thanks for the reply. What's weird is that when I first tried this
(Fedora 27 & Evolution 3.26) it worked; it was actually my first test
of the flatpak build system.