Re: KDE file dialogs in Thunderbird and Firefox

* Carlos E. R. <[email protected]> [07-17-20 14:14]:
> 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?

they are not in opensuse-kde, with one exception.



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