Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there any way to change the file selection configuration?

2022-11-21 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 12:20:45PM +, Gaël Bonithon wrote: > --- Original Message --- > On Saturday, November 19th, 2022 at 2:12 PM, Chris Green > wrote: > > > It often goes to the 'Recent' location which isn't actually a > > directory, it's just a list of files/directories that

Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there any way to change the file selection configuration?

2022-11-21 Thread Gaël Bonithon
--- Original Message --- On Saturday, November 19th, 2022 at 2:12 PM, Chris Green wrote: > It often goes to the 'Recent' location which isn't actually a > directory, it's just a list of files/directories that have been > recently accessed. I'd really rather not have this as it's not > a

Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there any way to change the file selection configuration?

2022-11-21 Thread Alex
Hi Chris, That dialog is provided by Gtk and called GtkFileChooserDialog [1], so we dont have much control over it in Xfce. A possibilty to mitigate such (and other) issues arround file picking would be to provide a own, Xfce specific file chooser dialog by providing a DBUS Service for

Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there any way to change the file selection configuration?

2022-11-20 Thread Chris Green
Alex wrote: > Hi Chris, > > That dialog is provided by Gtk and called GtkFileChooserDialog [1], so > we dont have much control over it in Xfce. > Yes, I had sort of gathered that after looking into the issue elsewhere, I guess there may be some Gtk configuration that might do something. > A

Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there any way to change the file selection configuration?

2022-11-19 Thread Victor Forberger
On 11/19/22 08:12, Chris Green wrote: I find the file selection window that appears when loading or saving files from (most) applications very confusing. There's two issues:- It often goes to the 'Recent' location which isn't actually a directory, it's just a list of

[xubuntu-users] Is there any way to change the file selection configuration?

2022-11-19 Thread Chris Green
I find the file selection window that appears when loading or saving files from (most) applications very confusing. There's two issues:- It often goes to the 'Recent' location which isn't actually a directory, it's just a list of files/directories that have been recently accessed.