Re: KDE file dialogs in Thunderbird and Firefox

"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:49:35 +0200

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

On 17/07/2020 22.44, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> 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?

Nononono. The contrary, I do not want KDE dialogs forced on me when not 
using KDE, which is what I understand would do setting GTK_USE_PORTAL to 
1 in the .desktop file.

I must be mistaken somewhere, so I'm asking :-)



-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

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

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