Alex <[email protected]> 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 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 "org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser". > > There is already an issue for that: > https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/547 > That's quite a long thread! :-) > I dont have time to work on it myself, though a MR would be welcome ! > Er, what's an MR? > Cheers, > > Alex(xcons) > > > [1] https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/class.FileChooserDialog.html > > Am 19.11.22 um 15:12 schrieb 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. I'd really rather not have this as it's not > > a 'real' directory, I just find it confusing. > > > > If I run (for example) atril from the command line it doesn't show > > me the current directory when I 'Open file' it shows me the some > > directory I have previously used, often months ago. Is there any > > way to simply tell programs to use a file opening dialog in the > > current directory? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xfce mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce > http://www.xfce.org -- Chris Green · -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
