reinventing windows on unix (of course using dbus!), continued:

> xdg-desktop-portal works by exposing a series of D-Bus interfaces known as portals under a well-known name (org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop) and object path (/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop).
>
> The portal interfaces include APIs for file access, opening URIs, printing and others.

https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal

can't make this up :D