Is there any way to change the file selection configuration?

[Chris Green]

Alex <acs82 at gmx.de> 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?
> >
> 
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