On 11/16/24 5:57 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
All,
Anyone running Firefox from the openSUSE builds, can you check with Ctrl+O and see if a file-open dialog appears?
The problem is there was a change in settings in Firefox:
widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker=1
Where:
0: never 1: always 2: auto
This was apparently done because Plasma will only use native file dialogs if the widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker is set to 1. All of this "portal" crapola is courtesy of flatpak sandbox issue.
However, for anyone running a desktop that doesn't have xdg-desktop-portal installed, your file-open chooser is now gone. No xdg-desktop-portal, no file- open dialog.
Let me add, that even if you do have xdg-desktop-portal installed, but are not running one of the main desktops, your dialogs will still be inoperative because when an app tries to use a portal chooser and it fails -- there is no sane fallback. You can't download and choose where to save the file, there is no chooser. But, if you set widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker=0 in firefox, you can get the basic gtk chooser back. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.