Somewhat of a PSA for Qt users:
On Linux, Firefox will now default to the XDG portal file picker if available, rather than the GTK3 one, which is usually better integrated with the user's desktop environment, and more powerful. https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/149.0/releasenotes/
Always needed a patched version of Firefox before for that. Presumably most distros will transparently throw that patch out of their Firefox package, so likely don't have to do anything.
But well, you don't specifically need a patched version anymore for that, so if that's a separate package on your distro, you could consider using the normal package again. Although, I believe there's also still patches floating about for using the KDE mimetype system...
OC text by @trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
11 Comments
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 21 pts · 16d
The GTK3 file chooser is so bad. Genuinely worst part of using GIMP.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 16d
worst part of GTK
Vincent@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 16d
Well, good news!
imecth@fedia.io · 15 pts · 16d
Nice, that's one default i won't have to change anymore.
victorz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16d
This was back in March.
onlinepersona@programming.dev · 3 pts · 16d
XDG portal?
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 16d
About fucking time. I've been fixing that on every FF install I've had for years now. And every once in a while it gets reverted on me, which pisses me off. Almost as much as having to get rid of the Fedora bookmarks crap about once a year.
exdor@programming.dev · 1 pts · 16d
This was an about:config before, didnt actually need a patch
deadcream@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 16d
Some patched it to change the default in config.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 16d
Omg, is this why the save/open/cancel buttons are at the top of the dialog???
i've been annoyed at that for years... it just changed one day
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 16d
Yah, it's using the GTK dialog by default. What sort of idiot puts the cursor in the Search box by default when you're saving a file? A Gnome dev, obviously.