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# Terminology

- Frontend: the XDG Desktop Portal service itself. This is what provides the APIs that apps interact with.

- Backend: desktop-specific implementation of portal interfaces. This is what provides the user interfaces that users interact with.

- Host system: the privileged, unsandboxed part of the system stack.

- URI: A Uniform Resource Identifier as described at RFC 3986.