Regardless of my DE, most of my apps are GTK+ 2.x apps (things like
Comix, Geeqie, gVim, and Firefox which have no acceptable replacements)
but I definitely like the idea of injecting some decent file dialogs
into the few native Qt apps I have (eg. LyX, GoldenDict, etc.).
Just give me something that does these five things and I should be
perfectly happy with it:
1. Offers a Places sidebar (like GTK+ and KDE but not default Qt) and
supports marking an individual bookmark as specific to a single
application (unlike GTK+)
2. Allows me to set a fixed size for any icons in the places sidebar
(unlike KDE 4) rather than throwing off my muscle memory by changing the
height of each row every time I attach or disconnect removable media.
3. Lets me rename and delete files from the context menu (like KDE and
the Qt default dialog but not GTK+). I'm sick and tired of having to
open PCManFM and navigate God only knows how deep into my filesystem
just to rename or delete a file that's already right in front of me. (Or
just forget AGAIN for the dozenth time, as usually happens)
4. Offers comfortable keyboard interaction and, unlike GTK+, doesn't
force me to start with the "Recent Files" virtual folder selected.
5. Has a location bar that actually works rather than GTK+'s tendency to
randomly auto-complete without being asked. (I'm sick of typing
"/usr/bin" and discovering that I got "/usr/sr/bin/in".)
6. Has a multi-column small icon view ("Compact View" in PCManFM or
"Short View" in KDE 4) where arrow key motions are commutative and
symmetrical (unlike KDE 4 Open/Save dialogs where list entry bounding
boxes vary in size, allowing the arrow keys to skip over short filenames
sandwiched in between long filenames... sometimes forcing you to grab
the mouse to focus certain files).
7. Has a multi-column small icon view that interprets the Up/Down arrow
keys as Previous/Next so that you can reach any file in the current
folder without touching Left/Right. (Again, unlike KDE 4 where pressing
Up at the top of a column or Down at the bottom of a column does nothing.)
The ability to switch between location bar and breadcrumb trail
representations of the current path in Open dialogs would also be nice
but isn't essential.
Also, I don't suppose KDE has any mechanism that would let you override
the dialogs in KDE 4 apps I use like K3b, Filelight, and Okular?
On 13-11-16 06:56 AM, PCMan wrote:
> Hello,
> After some research, I found that we can utilize the Qt GUI platform
> plugin to integrate Qt apps with our DE. For example, the 3rd party Qt
> apps can use the icon theme we specified by default.
> Hence I added a new component, lxqt-qtplugin.
> This will install a plugin in /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/gui_platform.
> By exporting QT_PLATFORM_PLUGIN=lxqt, we can ask Qt to load our plugin
> for every Qt programs, including the 3rd party ones.
>
> Currently, the plugin only does one thing, loading icon theme setting
> from LxQt::globalSettings(), and apply it to all Qt programs.
>
> We can do more with the plugin later. For example, our own file dialogs
> based on pcmanfm-qt and our own color dialog can be added. Besides,
> since the plugin is loaded by every Qt programs, we can inject other
> stuff into the programs as needed.
> With this plugin, I think libxdsettings becomes less necessary.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
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