Please allow us to use qt/kde file picker instead of GTK.

Zeke Williams

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Oct 6, 2021, 12:44:42 PM10/6/21

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The GTK file picker is hardly an improvement over the stock FLTK file picker. On windows/MacOS it's better, but with GTK you get essentially the same file picker because GTK doesn't allow icon view with the file picker, it only allows list view with a preview on a clicked on file. Why not instead allow us to compile in the qt/kde file picker for native file picker that has actual thumbnail support? People already try to use portals with GTK to use the KDE file picker.

Albrecht Schlosser

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Oct 6, 2021, 12:53:29 PM10/6/21

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I believe this is related to GitHub Issue #278
(https://github.com/fltk/fltk/issues/278). I referred the OP to
fltk.coredev for discussion. All substantial results of this discussion
should be posted to issue #278.

I'm afraid I can't help much because I'm not using a system with KDE.

Ian MacArthur

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Oct 6, 2021, 2:21:25 PM10/6/21

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Further, I’m not sure we even have anyone with a great deal of experience programming for KDE and/or QT, so I don't think there’s really anyone around here who could work on this.

Though, as ever, patches welcome!

Manolo

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Dec 3, 2021, 11:32:52 AM12/3/21

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Le mercredi 6 octobre 2021 à 18:44:42 UTC+2, lake...@gmail.com a écrit :

The GTK file picker is hardly an improvement over the stock FLTK file picker. On windows/MacOS it's better, but with GTK you get essentially the same file picker because GTK doesn't allow icon view with the file picker, it only allows list view with a preview on a clicked on file. Why not instead allow us to compile in the qt/kde file picker for native file picker that has actual thumbnail support? People already try to use portals with GTK to use the KDE file picker.