Re: KDE file dialogs in Thunderbird and Firefox

"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:11:44 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.suse.kde
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 10/07/2020 08.26, Tom wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> it seems like Thunderbird and Firefox use GTK dialogs for opening and 
> saving files by default. To make them use native KDE dialogs the 
> environment variable GTK_USE_PORTAL must be set to 1. One way to do that 
> is to edit the .desktop files for the applications [1].
> 
> Alternatively, the line
> 
> export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1
> 
> can be added in ~/.profile or even globally under /etc/profile.d/.
> 
> Would it make sense to add the global export in a package (e.g., a 
> branding package)? This should make Firefox and Thunderbird use the KDE 
> file dialogs by default for most users. Or would that have any unwanted 
> side effects?

What about the people that are not using a KDE desktop?



-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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