Account¶

Description¶

Portal for obtaining information about the user

This simple interface lets sandboxed applications query basic information about the user, like their name and avatar photo.

This documentation describes version 1 of this interface.

version readable u

GetUserInformation (
  IN window s,
  IN options a{sv},
  OUT handle o
)

Gets information about the user.

Supported keys in the options vardict include:

handle_token (s)

A string that will be used as the last element of the handle. Must be a valid object path element. See the Request documentation for more information about the handle.
reason (s)

A string that can be shown in the dialog to explain why the information is needed. This should be a complete sentence that explains what the application will do with the returned information, for example: “Allows your personal information to be included with recipes you share with your friends”.

The following results get returned via the org.freedesktop.portal.Request::Response signal: