Request for automatic-connection for various things in line with other Chromium based browsers

[vivaldi]

Hi,

We kindly ask for automatic-connection for “bluez”, “joystick”, “removable-media” and “system-packages-doc” for vivaldi, similarly to the request Brave made and was granted previously

Request for auto-connections for Brave

Hi, I’d like to request auto-connection of audio-record bluez joystick system-packages-doc unity7 for Brave. These were already granted to Chromium and other browsers. Thanks! PS. As suggested here, we switched from cups-control to cups, following the official documentation and now snap reports a warning saying snap “brave” has bad plugs or slots: content (content plug must contain target path) What should we do about that?

In addition Chromium (on which Vivaldi is based) has all of these auto connects.

For more clarity on each one

• bluez: so that wireless periperals work out of the box
• joystick: We have a built in Vivaldi game vivaldi://game (though it would obviously also be useful for other online games as well)
• removable-media: to allow people to save their downloads on external hard drives
• system-packages-doc: To open and view the host’s HTML system documentation.

It is worth noting that we have two futher outstanding automatic-connection requests and perhaps it might be worth dealing with all of them at the same time

• automatic-connection for u2f-devices and hardware-observe: This is important as many people use Yubikeys (and the like) to login to websites.
• automatic-connection for dot-local-share-applications and dot-local-share-icons: For creating the required files when PWAs (progressive web apps are made)

In summary for the full list of auto-connects we are requesting (in line with other browsers) are: bluez, dot-local-share-applications, dot-local-share-icons, hardware-observe, joystick, removable-media, system-packages-doc, u2f-devices

This is our snapcraft.yaml

Thank you,

Ruarí from Team Vivaldi

[cav]

similarly to the related brave topics 1 and 2, +1 for auto-connecting bluez, joystick, removable-media and system-packages-doc for vivaldi

[jslarraz]

+1 also from me for granting vivaldi auto-connection ot bluez, joystick, removable-media and system-packages-doc as those makes sense for the expected functionality and precedents (brave) exists.

[cav]

+2 votes for, 0 votes against, granting auto-connect of interfaces bluez, joystick, removable-media and system-packages-doc to snap vivaldi. The publisher is verified. This is now live.