Is there any way to change the file selection configuration?

[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 "org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser".

There is already an issue for that:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/547

I dont have time to work on it myself, though a MR would be welcome !

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?
>