Screenshot permission granting API

[swick]

Some applications like flameshot want to take screenshots when they get launched and don't have a surface, yet to avoid having UI in the way of whatever is supposed to get captured. This is a problem for the screenshot portal which might require the user to grant permission and can't associate this permission dialog with a surface.

It would be good if there was a way for the app to ask the user to grant permission to take screenshots without taking a screenshot. This permission dialog could be in a settings app or something more in the style of Android.

[allanday]

I think this makes sense. It's certainly reasonable to expect a screenshot tool to be run once before you can start using it.

My main concern is what it might mean if we extend the same logic to other portals, and what might happen if an app needs multiple permissions. The experience of launching an app for the first time and being bombarded with permission dialogs is not fun.

[dynobo]

My main concern is what it might mean if we extend the same logic to other portals, and what might happen if an app needs multiple permissions. The experience of launching an app for the first time and being bombarded with permission dialogs is not fun.

That's true.

However, I personally do not see a big difference of being bombarded before or after the application window shows up.

On Android they handle this in a combined permission dialog, but I guess this is difficult without explicit permission management.

MacOS uses implicit management. How are thoses cases handled there? So far, I've only seen single-permission-dialogs there, and I never felt like being bombarded by many of them... Maybe this is not a common problem in practise?