[opensuse] Amazing Opera Tip -- Use QT/GTK file Open/Save dialogs
List, I have always liked the opera browser, but one thing that has really sucked about it was the crappy file open/file save dialogs opera comes with. Picking around tonight, I ran across an option in opera's configuration that allows you to choose the file selector dialogs to use. It is cryptic as hell, but I found the commit page for the changes and got the needed information. To make use of real kde4 open/save dialogs in opera, got to the config page by typing "opera:config" into the address bar, the scroll down to "File Selector", then change the setting to "2". The commit notes say: 0 - normal 1 - Qt 2 - GTK For some reason, I couldn't get Qt to work, so I select "2" for GTK, and Bingo! I had usable dialogs in opera (you may need to restart opera). What a relief. If you use opera, it's worth a look. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 27 September 2009 12:08:33 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
by typing "opera:config" into the address bar, the scroll down to "File Selector", then change the setting to "2". The commit notes say:
0 - normal 1 - Qt 2 - GTK
For some reason, I couldn't get Qt to work, so I select "2" for GTK, and Bingo!
thanks a lot, that's really useful! i also like opera and hate it's original file dialog. in my case though, option 1 (Qt) works. that's probably because i'm not using opera from the openSUSE repos, but downloaded version 10 from opera's website. (this works much better than previous alpha- and beta-realeases i've tried, by the way.) the ver. 10 rpm i got says "shared qt3;" previous alpha releases were available in different shared / embedded qt versions; but when i downloaded this one, only "shared qt3" was available, and for this one the qt file save dlg. works. -- ys phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:28, phanisvara das
the ver. 10 rpm i got says "shared qt3;" previous alpha releases were available in different shared / embedded qt versions; but when i downloaded this one, only "shared qt3" was available, and for this one the qt file save dlg. works. For me, using a stable release of Opera feels weird. So I am on the 10.10 snapshots. qt4 versions are available for this, both x86_64 & i386. It is quite stable and does have a few extra goodies.
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On Sunday 27 Sep 2009 08:28:51 phanisvara das wrote: snip
the ver. 10 rpm i got says "shared qt3;" previous alpha releases were available in different shared / embedded qt versions; but when i downloaded this one, only "shared qt3" was available, and for this one the qt file save dlg. works.
That got me as well - only releasing a qt3 version seems daft. i'm off to install the new snapshot now. thanks for the tip -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 27 September 2009 10:01:51 ianseeks wrote:
On Sunday 27 Sep 2009 08:28:51 phanisvara das wrote:
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the ver. 10 rpm i got says "shared qt3;" previous alpha releases were available in different shared / embedded qt versions; but when i downloaded this one, only "shared qt3" was available, and for this one the qt file save dlg. works.
That got me as well - only releasing a qt3 version seems daft. i'm off to install the new snapshot now.
ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/1000/final/en/x86_64/ or ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/1000/final/en/i386/ There is a qt4 build as well - it's just not available on the dropdown. It works quite well Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 27 Sep 2009 09:24:55 Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 27 September 2009 10:01:51 ianseeks wrote:
On Sunday 27 Sep 2009 08:28:51 phanisvara das wrote:
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the ver. 10 rpm i got says "shared qt3;" previous alpha releases were available in different shared / embedded qt versions; but when i downloaded this one, only "shared qt3" was available, and for this one the qt file save dlg. works.
That got me as well - only releasing a qt3 version seems daft. i'm off to install the new snapshot now.
ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/1000/final/en/x86_64/
or
ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/1000/final/en/i386/
There is a qt4 build as well - it's just not available on the dropdown. It works quite well
Anders
Thanks Anders, the snapshot version seems to be working well enough. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Sonntag, 27. September 2009 09:28:51 schrieb phanisvara das:
Selector", then change the setting to "2". The commit notes say:
0 - normal 1 - Qt 2 - GTK Bingo!
thanks a lot, that's really useful! i also like opera and hate it's original file dialog. in my case though, option 1 (Qt) works.
But it does not make Opera use the KDE dialogues, does it? Because Qt and KDE do not necessarily use the same dialogue. For those that use Firefox, there is KDE4 integration now as well, including notifications and file dialogues. http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/FirefoxIntegration Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
List,
I have always liked the opera browser, but one thing that has really sucked about it was the crappy file open/file save dialogs opera comes with. Picking around tonight, I ran across an option in opera's configuration that allows you to choose the file selector dialogs to use. It is cryptic as hell, but I found the commit page for the changes and got the needed information.
To make use of real kde4 open/save dialogs in opera, got to the config page by typing "opera:config" into the address bar, the scroll down to "File Selector", then change the setting to "2". The commit notes say:
0 - normal 1 - Qt 2 - GTK
For some reason, I couldn't get Qt to work, so I select "2" for GTK, and Bingo! I had usable dialogs in opera (you may need to restart opera). What a relief. If you use opera, it's worth a look.
Does not seem to require a restart. The default one is more compact than the GTK one. ?!? And the operation of the Show Details check box seems oddly backward. Checking it cause a partly functional minimalist dialog to appear. But it is cool to have that option. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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