Snapcraft Summit 2019 (Montreal) - a snapd perspective

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Installing a .desktop file in /usr/share/wayland-sessions

While experimenting with the proposed login-session-control interface I hit a snag with making a confined snap session available from the greeter: How to install a .desktop file to /usr/share/wayland-sessions? With classic confinement (as used by the egmde and plasma-desktop snaps) it is possible to copy a .desktop file to /usr/share/wayland-sessions in the install/configure hooks. With strict confinement this is not possible: error: cannot perform the following tasks: - ... /usr/share/wayla…