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Integrating the file chooser with Nautilus is awesome. I think it should have happened ages ago in the Gnome 2 era, when there were facilities for embedding a w
by captainmuon 5y ago
Integrating the file chooser with Nautilus is awesome. I think it should have happened ages ago in the Gnome 2 era, when there were facilities for embedding a widget from one application in another (e.g. Bonobo). It is infuriating that there are small differences between the file chooser and the file browser. Windows gets this pretty much right, since it uses a special shell widget in the file picker. You get all the same context menus, and can copy files between windows via drag+drop.
The new image viewer looks nice!
Theming is a bit disappointing - instead of accent colors, I would prefer full support for themes, but that ship has sailed for Gnome.
- traverseda 5y agoHow are non-gnome gtk apps supposed to choose files? I suppose this has always been an issue with gnome, but it kind of seems like an abuse of trust if it makes tools like Firefox depend on the gnome desktop environment.
- iforgotpassword 5y agoI'd guess if they haven't completely lost their minds you could still just use the old or whatever ways. Just like you still get the old gtk2 chooser with some programs today. Qt apps have also always done their thing.
- mixedCase 5y agoCall the system's default file chooser via an xdg-desktop-portal protocol (FileChooser). Could be Nautilus, could be KDialog. No longer will we have to hardcode specific toolkit dialogs!
- curt15 5y agoFirefox has supported this since v64.
- ldng 5y agoIntegrating the file chooser is just one more dick move to make the life of other desktop solutions that relying on GTK harder.