Re: KDE file dialogs in Thunderbird and Firefox

Wolfgang Rosenauer <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:44:34 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.kde
Organization openSUSE
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Am 17.07.20 um 20:11 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> 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?

I do not understand the question I have to say. You want KDE dialogs when not
using KDE?


Wolfgang
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