diff --git a/app/app_xdg.go b/app/app_xdg.go
index 6e1fa7fa8c..ba6d38b25e 100644
--- a/app/app_xdg.go
+++ b/app/app_xdg.go
@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@ import (
 	"net/url"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"strconv"
 	"sync"
 
 	"github.com/godbus/dbus/v5"
+	"github.com/rymdport/portal/notification"
+	"github.com/rymdport/portal/openuri"
 	"golang.org/x/sys/execabs"
 
 	"fyne.io/fyne/v2"
@@ -29,8 +30,10 @@ func defaultVariant() fyne.ThemeVariant {
 }
 
 func (a *fyneApp) OpenURL(url *url.URL) error {
-	if openURLThroughPortal(url) == nil {
+	if err := openuri.OpenURI(url.String()); err == nil {
 		return nil
+	} else {
+		fyne.LogError("Opening url in portal failed", err)
 	}
 
 	cmd := execabs.Command("xdg-open", url.String())
@@ -38,27 +41,6 @@ func (a *fyneApp) OpenURL(url *url.URL) error {
 	return cmd.Start()
 }
 
-func openURLThroughPortal(url *url.URL) error {
-	conn, err := dbus.SessionBus() // shared connection, don't close
-	if err != nil {
-		fyne.LogError("Unable to connect to session D-Bus", err)
-		return err
-	}
-
-	parentWindow := ""
-	uri := url.String()
-	options := map[string]dbus.Variant{}
-
-	obj := conn.Object("org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop", "/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop")
-	call := obj.Call("org.freedesktop.portal.OpenURI.OpenURI", 0, parentWindow, uri, options)
-	if call.Err != nil {
-		fyne.LogError("Failed to open url with xdg-desktop-portal", call.Err)
-		return call.Err
-	}
-
-	return nil
-}
-
 // fetch color variant from dbus portal desktop settings.
 func findFreedestktopColorScheme() fyne.ThemeVariant {
 	dbusConn, err := dbus.SessionBus()
@@ -107,8 +89,10 @@ func (a *fyneApp) SendNotification(n *fyne.Notification) {
 		return
 	}
 
-	if a.sendNotificationThroughPortal(conn, n) == nil {
+	if err := a.sendNotificationThroughPortal(conn, n); err == nil {
 		return // No need to use the fallback path.
+	} else {
+		fyne.LogError("Sending notification using portal failed", err)
 	}
 
 	appIcon := a.cachedIconPath()
@@ -123,22 +107,19 @@ func (a *fyneApp) SendNotification(n *fyne.Notification) {
 }
 
 // Sending with same ID replaces the old notification.
-var notificationID uint64 = 0
+var notificationID uint = 0
 
 // See https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/#gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.Notification.
 func (a *fyneApp) sendNotificationThroughPortal(conn *dbus.Conn, n *fyne.Notification) error {
-	id := strconv.FormatUint(notificationID, 10)
-	data := map[string]dbus.Variant{
-		"title": dbus.MakeVariant(n.Title),
-		"body":  dbus.MakeVariant(n.Content),
-		"icon":  dbus.MakeVariant(a.uniqueID),
-	}
-
-	obj := conn.Object("org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop", "/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop")
-	call := obj.Call("org.freedesktop.portal.Notification.AddNotification", 0, id, data)
-	if call.Err != nil {
-		fyne.LogError("Failed to send notification to xdg-desktop-portal", call.Err)
-		return call.Err
+	err := notification.Add(notificationID,
+		&notification.Content{
+			Title: n.Title,
+			Body:  n.Content,
+			Icon:  a.uniqueID,
+		},
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
 	}
 
 	notificationID++
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 899268e30d..d8d94d146f 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/lucor/goinfo v0.9.0
 	github.com/mcuadros/go-version v0.0.0-20190830083331-035f6764e8d2
 	github.com/nfnt/resize v0.0.0-20180221191011-83c6a9932646
+	github.com/rymdport/portal v0.0.0-20231119111435-f007cc4c83bb
 	github.com/srwiley/oksvg v0.0.0-20221011165216-be6e8873101c
 	github.com/srwiley/rasterx v0.0.0-20220730225603-2ab79fcdd4ef
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.8.4
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 79b30237b6..1453e84a44 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -266,6 +266,8 @@ github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.0.1/go.mod h1:+Rmxgy9KzJVeS9/2gXHxylqXiyQD
 github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0 h1:JIOH55/0cWyOuilr9/qlrm0BSXldqnqwMsf35Ld67mk=
 github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0/go.mod h1:+Rmxgy9KzJVeS9/2gXHxylqXiyQDYRxCVz55jmeOWTM=
 github.com/ryanuber/columnize v0.0.0-20160712163229-9b3edd62028f/go.mod h1:sm1tb6uqfes/u+d4ooFouqFdy9/2g9QGwK3SQygK0Ts=
+github.com/rymdport/portal v0.0.0-20231119111435-f007cc4c83bb h1:G7vOtmOMTjkjbApmz4Rfa9vSft+8faoe8i9kBqmzBuo=
+github.com/rymdport/portal v0.0.0-20231119111435-f007cc4c83bb/go.mod h1:RYYAnv4sssTQ7ceErKl7UD8auER/0yFV7CgmfS/uAD8=
 github.com/sean-/seed v0.0.0-20170313163322-e2103e2c3529/go.mod h1:DxrIzT+xaE7yg65j358z/aeFdxmN0P9QXhEzd20vsDc=
 github.com/shurcooL/go v0.0.0-20200502201357-93f07166e636/go.mod h1:TDJrrUr11Vxrven61rcy3hJMUqaf/CLWYhHNPmT14Lk=
 github.com/shurcooL/httpfs v0.0.0-20190707220628-8d4bc4ba7749/go.mod h1:ZY1cvUeJuFPAdZ/B6v7RHavJWZn2YPVFQ1OSXhCGOkg=