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Configuring Portal Permissions in Plasma
Quoting: Configuring Portal Permissions in Plasma —
On Android apps need special permissions to access certain things like the camera and microphone. When the app tries to access something that needs special permission for the first time you will prompted once and afterwards the permission can be removed again in the app settings. For sandboxed apps on desktop as done by flatpak or snap for example the situation is similar. Such apps can’t access all systems services, instead they have to through xdg-desktop-portal which will show a dialog where the user can grant permission to the app. Unfortunately we lacked the “configure permissions” part of it which means granted permissions disappear into the void and pre-authorization is not possible. This changes with Plasma 6.5 which will include a new settings page where you can configure application permissions!