ASHPD

ASHPD, acronym of Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device is a Rust & zbus wrapper of the XDG portals DBus interfaces. The library aims to provide an easy way to interact with the various portals defined per the specifications. It provides an alternative to the C library https://github.com/flatpak/libportal

Examples

Ask the compositor to pick a color

use ashpd::desktop::Color;

async fn run() -> ashpd::Result<()> {
    let color = Color::pick().send().await?.response()?;
    println!("({}, {}, {})", color.red(), color.green(), color.blue());
    Ok(())
}

Start a PipeWire stream from the user's camera

use ashpd::desktop::camera::Camera;

pub async fn run() -> ashpd::Result<()> {
    let camera = Camera::new().await?;
    if camera.is_present().await? {
        camera.request_access(Default::default()).await?;
        let remote_fd = camera.open_pipe_wire_remote(Default::default()).await?;
        // pass the remote fd to GStreamer for example
    }
    Ok(())
}

Optional features

Feature	Description	Default
tracing	Record various debug information using the tracing library	No
tokio	Enable tokio runtime on zbus dependency	Yes
async-io	Enable the use of the async-io crates, compatible with runtimes such smol or glib	No
frontend	Enables all frontend APIs, individual APIs can be enabled separately if needed with account , camera, screencast and so on	No
glib	Make all the enums derive glib::Enum. Flags are not supported yet	No
gtk4	Implement From<Color> for gdk4::RGBA Provides WindowIdentifier::from_native that takes a IsA<gtk4::Native>	No
gtk4_wayland	Provides WindowIdentifier::from_native that takes a IsA<gtk4::Native> with Wayland backend support only	No
gtk4_x11	Provides WindowIdentifier::from_native that takes a IsA<gtk4::Native> with X11 backend support only	No
pipewire	Provides ashpd::desktop::camera::pipewire_streams that helps you retrieve the various camera streams associated with the retrieved file descriptor	No
raw_handle	Provides WindowIdentifier::from_raw_handle and WindowIdentifier::as_raw_handle for raw-window-handle crate	No
wayland	Provides WindowIdentifier::from_wayland for wayland-client crate	No
backend	Enables portal backend implementation support	No

Demo

The library comes with a demo built using the GTK 4 Rust bindings and previews most of the portals. It is meant as a test case for the portals (from a distributor perspective) and as a way for the developers to see which portals exists and how to integrate them into their application using ASHPD.

Translations

Helping to translate ASHPD Demo or add support to a new language is very welcome. You can find everything you need at: l10n.gnome.org/module/ashpd/

Backend demo

The library also comes with a backend demo that exemplifies how to implement a portal backend.