@dclane as I am advised by you before, I can understand the concern. But the issue is, this app needs it, as it allows the users to download videos from password-protected sites. The credentials are stored encrypted. Now, this can be done using portals, but it’s currently limited to gnome-keyring
only. It hasn’t yet been implemented in kde’s kwallet
. So, if we use portals, the guys using kde, will be left out.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466197
Now coming to the manually done by user method. Can a normal user really understand this? If such a popup, with the command written in it comes up, almost big chunk of a people will paste it in the terminal as it is, without even them understanding it properly. Also, why should a normal user, who’s gonna install from a graphical store, need to do tasks specific for power users? I hope I am able to make you understand our POV. This same kind of issue also came up with Telegram. But, as I am actively involved in the development of this app, I can assure you that we’ll switch to portals, as soon as, kde implements it.